Beirut Street Portrait Series

They fear a Russian attack is imminent, but soldiers in Ukraine's Odessa took time to buy friends and family flowers for #InternationalWomensDay even though life in the Black Sea port has been turned upside down reut.rs/3KquN3B

This is big news….

I was so moved to see Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson confirmed this afternoon. Like so many of you, I can’t help but feel a sense of pride—a sense of joy—to know that this deserving, accomplished Black woman will be a part of the highest court in the land.

“I know that hate will only win if people like me stand by and let it happen,” Michigan Democratic state Sen. Mallory McMorrow said Tuesday in a powerful state Senate floor speech. washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/…

Over-consumption in the world’s richest countries is creating unhealthy, dangerous and toxic conditions for children globally. UNICEF says policies & practices that safeguard the natural environment must be put into place to protect future generations. news.un.org/en/story/2022/…

First Shot. From a mass demonstration in Beirut's Martyr Square, several days after the Aug. 4, 2020, Infijar - posted as the two- year mark approaches on the massive Port explosion. photo: tk maloy

Second Shot. From a mass demonstration in Beirut's Martyr Square, several days after the Aug. 4, 2020, Infijar - posted as the two- year mark approaches on the massive Port explosion. photo: tk maloy

On ruins and ruination in Lebanon, by Habib Battah: "Downtown Beirut has always been a graveyard of dreams and political ambitions. It is full of empty ditches where ruins have disappeared to make way for speculative real estate that never materialized." thepublicsource.org/searching-leba…

I wrote this to mark the second memoriam of the cataclysmic detonation of 2,700 tons of ammonium nitrate at the Beirut Port - which took so much from so many.... #Infijar beirut-today.com/2022/08/03/it-…

My Friday reporting.... beirut-today.com/2022/08/05/wor…

Every vote does count!

Incredible, night-long vote.

My report Monday on the Lebanese banking strike.... beirut-today.com/2022/08/08/leb…

Here’s a selection of photos taken by my dad. The one below was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in ‘83. The guy in the photo recently saw it for the first time and reached out to my dad via email. mideastreviews.com/phots-by-the-a…

A re-edit of an archival story.... MASTER OF THE WILD DOGS link.medium.com/U0T1jTeZUsb

Recently published from my archives - a requiem for Beirut's old Carlton Hotel... ‘Slowly, slowly, the hotel was deserted’ link.medium.com/ZUFxoq6bCtb

East Architecture Studio, co-founder Nicholas Fayad, and all the East team do extremely erudite, creative, aesthetic and lovely work - and in this case award winning!! #Agakhanawardforarchitecture medium.com/@tkmaloy/beiru…