12 July 2013
BEIRUT - Every morning I grab a ‘service’ (a Lebanese shared taxi) to go to work at the ‘Cola bridge’ (Jisr Cola near one of the the two city’s bus stations, Cola Station), a mainly Sunni neighbourhood. A few weeks ago the bridge was ‘empty’. You could see and hear cars and noise, chaotic as Beirut is everyday with its pedestrians and urban bustle. Now, more and more Syrian refugees have settled beneath this bridge. Entire families – you can see their children playing early in the morning while their parents try to fix breakfast as best they can.