Jean Charles Khairallah in Lecce, Italy, in January 2024. (Photo provided by Jean-Charles Khairallah)
In Beirut, every Sunday, in the courtyard of the Saint-Sauveur school in Badaro, Jean Charles Khairallah organizes a market where producers and customers know each other, exchange, and forge bonds. Once a master of the aggressive workings of mass retail, he now strives to protect small Lebanese producers, enabling them to live off their land. In Jrane, in the hills above Batroun, he grows his own vegetables and raises rabbits. His dream is to multiply these neighborhood markets throughout Lebanon: Tripoli, Saida, Zgharta, and other cities, because Beirut should not centralize everything. In a similar vein Souk El Tayeb moves to the outskirts of Beirut, upgrading with a spacious outdoor area China, a school of patience and excessHis path shifted due to tragedy. In 1986, his older brother Selim, a Red Cross paramedic, was killed under...
In Beirut, every Sunday, in the courtyard of the Saint-Sauveur school in Badaro, Jean Charles Khairallah organizes a market where producers and customers know each other, exchange, and forge bonds. Once a master of the aggressive workings of mass retail, he now strives to protect small Lebanese producers, enabling them to live off their land. In Jrane, in the hills above Batroun, he grows his own vegetables and raises rabbits. His dream is to multiply these neighborhood markets throughout Lebanon: Tripoli, Saida, Zgharta, and other cities, because Beirut should not centralize everything. In a similar vein Souk El Tayeb moves to the outskirts of Beirut, upgrading with a spacious outdoor area China, a school of patience and excessHis path shifted due to tragedy. In 1986, his older brother Selim, a Red Cross paramedic, was killed...
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