. @washingtonpost.com’s A1 this morning

Amateur footage of US envoy Amos Hochstein stopping by a local Starbucks in Beirut today. Onlookers take photos with him and one offers to pay for his order. He politely declined.

Window styles of Beirut’s houses:
1st row: Triple arch
2d row: Horseshoe arch
3rd row: Ogee arch
4th row: Palladian window
5th row: Segmental & 3-pointed arch
Categorized by Robert Saliba.

Israeli air strike in the Zokak Blatt neighborhood in Beirut not far off from the Lebanese government’s headquarters. Sirens can be heard near AUBMC hospital.

Hamra street, Beirut (1981)