For over two decades Abu Ali was a familiar sight in Beirut’s Hamra neighborhood, where every morning he would sell kaak, the traditional purse-shaped bread, from his cart on the side of the street. When his cart was impounded and destroyed by the authorities last week, the 63-year-old didn’t know what else to do but return to the same spot.
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Read More“I prefer to not stay here – you can see how the situation is,” Abd al-Mohsen from Syria’s Homs said as he sat on an orange plastic chair in his family’s wood-framed tent sealed with patchwork nylon in the Bekaa Valley.
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