A couple enjoying the fresh air on the corniche of Tripoli, North Lebanon, Feb. 23, 2025. (Credit: Stéphanie Khouri/L'Orient-Le Jour)
Abu Said has little sympathy for the mourners of Feb. 23.Sure, “everyone is free,” he said. But in his eyes, Hezbollah’s former leader Hassan Nasrallah was above all the man responsible for the country’s destruction.Seated on the corniche of Tripoli, the major Sunni city of northern Lebanon, the sixty-something native of the Ain al-Mreisseh neighborhood in Beirut passes the time smoking a nargileh. Between puffs, he advised passersby who have braved the freezing temperatures to rent a bicycle: “LL200,000 for 20 minutes.”For him, watching Nasrallah’s funeral, who was assassinated by Israel in its recent war against Hezbollah, taking place at the same time in the capital is out of the question.“Who in their right mind would watch lunatics?” he said. Read more 'The Sayyed is dead, long live the resistance': Nasrallah's funeral through the...
Abu Said has little sympathy for the mourners of Feb. 23.Sure, “everyone is free,” he said. But in his eyes, Hezbollah’s former leader Hassan Nasrallah was above all the man responsible for the country’s destruction.Seated on the corniche of Tripoli, the major Sunni city of northern Lebanon, the sixty-something native of the Ain al-Mreisseh neighborhood in Beirut passes the time smoking a nargileh. Between puffs, he advised passersby who have braved the freezing temperatures to rent a bicycle: “LL200,000 for 20 minutes.”For him, watching Nasrallah’s funeral, who was assassinated by Israel in its recent war against Hezbollah, taking place at the same time in the capital is out of the question.“Who in their right mind would watch lunatics?” he said. Read more 'The Sayyed is dead, long live the resistance': Nasrallah's...