The Times of Israel on MSN1d
Bucking stereotypes and fighting hatred, a Syrian Jewish ex-refugee lights up Instagram
An immigration lawyer by day, New Yorker Abraham Hamra has gained over 59,000 followers using his fluent Hebrew and Arabic to ...
Al Jazeera on MSN5mon
Coffee on the street in Hamra: Stories of Lebanese displacement
At the Casa D’Or, a four-star hotel on Hamra Street, a couple stands at the check-in desk, trying to negotiate the price for ...
Goethe6y
Memories of the “Most Famous Promenade in the Middle East” – Bauer Film Projectors in Hamra
Made in Germany, in Untertürkheim, to be precise – memories of a past, glorious age. Before the Lebanese Civil War, Hamra Street was considered the most popular boulevard in all the Middle East and ...
Al-Monitor11y
Beirut’s Historic Hamra Street No Longer Cultural Epicenter
Al-Monitor is an award-winning media outlet covering the Middle East, valued for its independence, diversity and analysis. It is read widely by US, international and Middle East decision makers at the ...
The Boston Globe12d
American Jews who fled Syria ask White House to lift sanctions so they can rebuild in Damascus
For Henry Hamra, who fled Damascus as a teenager with his family in the 1990s, the 30 years since have been shadowed by worry for what they left behind. “I was just on the lookout the whole time.