Michel Zaccour Street in the southern suburbs of Beirut on Feb. 27, 2025. (Photo sent by local resident to L'Orient Today)
BERIUT — “Dahieh [Beirut's southern suburbs] is the safest place in the world, minus Israel,” Dunia Hallani told L’Orient Today with a wide grin on her face.Standing at a cosmetics store in Mraijeh, in the capital's southern suburb, on a rare sunny day amidst Storm Adam, the 27-year-old nursing teacher said she “only feels safe in Dahieh. It’s the only place in Lebanon where I would walk the streets after 10 p.m. and feel completely safe.”“Our men [Hezbollah members] are always on the lookout for us — may God grant them long lives. Even after the war, with many neighborhoods empty and destroyed, when I come back at night and the taxi drops me a street away because he can’t get to my house, which is surrounded by buildings still being cleared of rubble, I pass through completely empty neighborhoods without thinking twice about it,” she...
BERIUT — “Dahieh [Beirut's southern suburbs] is the safest place in the world, minus Israel,” Dunia Hallani told L’Orient Today with a wide grin on her face.Standing at a cosmetics store in Mraijeh, in the capital's southern suburb, on a rare sunny day amidst Storm Adam, the 27-year-old nursing teacher said she “only feels safe in Dahieh. It’s the only place in Lebanon where I would walk the streets after 10 p.m. and feel completely safe.”“Our men [Hezbollah members] are always on the lookout for us — may God grant them long lives. Even after the war, with many neighborhoods empty and destroyed, when I come back at night and the taxi drops me a street away because he can’t get to my house, which is surrounded by buildings still being cleared of rubble, I pass through completely empty neighborhoods without thinking...