Article from 2006

[elisi]

Watching Beirut die
We went to Beirut to film a TV show about the city’s newly vibrant culinary and cultural scene. Then the bombs started falling, and we could only stand on the barricades of our hotel balcony and watch it all disappear — again.
Anthony Bourdain

Came across a link to this on Twitter.

Comments

[owlboy]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0CzPiIDBD4

[promethia_tenk]

That episode was unbearably tense. And large parts of it were nothing more than the film crew sequestered in a hotel.

[sea_thoughts]

What a sad yet beautiful article. All the things that might have been.