emtiful

May 22, 2010 Writing
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We’ve been brain­storm­ing for sev­eral months now. On and off, then back on again, some­times in for­mal meet­ings, but mostly in between things.

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Hamra, where to?

May 20, 2010 Architecture
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Take me back to Hamra Street. Not the strip of fran­chise restau­rants, or the avenue of glass-and-steel bou­tiques, or the boule­vard of fra­puc­cino joints, or the thor­ough­fare of parceled rub­ble piles.

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City of Now

May 19, 2010 Architecture
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Beirut is a city of dif­fer­ence: 9 lay­ers of his­tory lie buried under 67 square kilo­me­ters on which tiny pock­ets of art-nouveau archi­tec­ture squeeze into a mod­ern urban land­scape co-inhabited by 18 dif­fer­ent reli­gious sects in tacit peace.

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Guantánamo

May 19, 2010 Artists
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Thomas Edison famously claimed that suc­cess is 10 per­cent inspi­ra­tion and 90 per­cent per­spi­ra­tion. In that same spirit, and for as long as I’ve known her, Farah Shaer has been one very busy bee.

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Mini Meedo

May 18, 2010 Children
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In nine months, I will be an uncle. While Zena and Tarek read What to Expect When You’re Expecting, I’m hard at work on my list of How To Spoil My Niece (or Nephew) Silly.

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Why I Dislike Architects *

May 18, 2010 Architecture
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Renowned Dutch archi­tect Rem Koolhaas spoke this evening in Beirut about issues affect­ing not only the con­tem­po­rary archi­tect, but just about any­one who’s ever lived in a building.

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