Tag: “Middle East Airlines”

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  1. Beirut and Southern Lebanon

    From Baalbeck, to Tyre, to a day in the life of a refugee camp and hanging with Hezbollah.

  2. Beirut Rafic Hariri International Airport; Nov. 2007

    Beirut Rafic Hariri International Airport (formerly Beirut International Airport) in Beirut, Lebanon is the only operational commercial airport in the country. It is the hub for Lebanon's national carrier, Middle East Airlines (MEA).

    In its 55+ years in operation, BRHIA has been nearly- destroyed countless times.

  3. Beirut Rafic Hariri International Airport

    Beirut Rafik Hariri International Airport (formerly Beirut International Airport) (IATA: BEY) (Arabic: مطار رفيق الحريري الدولي - بيروت) is located 9 km (5.6 mi) from the city center in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon and is the only operational commercial airport in the country. It is the hub for Lebanon's national carrier, Middle East Airlines (more commonly known as MEA).

    It is the main port of entry into the country along with the Port of Beirut.

  4. Sweets from the Middle East

    The Middle East is not all about conflict and problems. There is much beauty and culture to be discovered there.

  5. Love In-Transit.

    Charles de Gaulle International Airport, terminal 4 (*If memory serves...). A woman holding her child, silhouetted against the rising morning sky.

    Shot in-transit/on layover, heading to Beirut from Los Angeles.

  6. Finding Lebanon.

    Plagued by decades of war, the tiny Mediterranean country of Lebanon continues to surprise and survive, finding its own way in the turbulent Middle-Eastern region and 21st-century.

  7. Baalbeck

    Carving from the 3 millennium at the site of Baalbeck.

  8. Childhood Curiosity in the Church of the Nativity

    According to Christian tradition, it was in the grotto underneath this Bethlehem church that Jesus was born. Since the outbreak of the second intifada in 2000, few tourists have ventured to this Palestinian town to visit the church.

  9. I love those signs!

    On my way overland from Jordan to Syria, my driver stopped me at this shop to change money. It always makes me smile to look at the wording on that sign.

  10. Harissa, Lebanon

    Harissa (Arabic حريصا) is an important Lebanese pilgrimage site high above Jounieh, located at 650 meters altitude from the coast and 20 km distance from Beirut the capital city; the site is accessible either by a steep winding road or a nine-minute journey by a gondola lift, known as the "Téléférique". It attracts both pilgrims and tourists who want to enjoy views of Jounieh.

    The main site is a huge 15-ton bronze (and painted white) statue of Virgin Mary, known as Our Lady of Lebanon or Notre Dame du Liban/Harissa or Our Virgin of Lebanon, with her arms outstretched.