Word: phoenicia
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...foreigners were the first to panic. At the Phoenicia Hotel, the city's fanciest, the lobby was filled with fashionable women fleeing the country in high-heeled shoes. The embassies circulated fanciful evacuation plans involving small airplanes and ferries to Cyprus. The U.N. told its employees to stock up on a month's worth of prescription medication and take a long weekend...
...blight of its bloody civil war, which ravaged the country from 1975 until 1990. During his tenure, gleaming hotels and apartment towers sprang up along Beirut's Mediterranean shore. Perhaps that is why it was there, on a bend in the famed seafront corniche just by the five-star Phoenicia Hotel, that a thunderous explosion blew apart Hariri's armor-plated convoy, killing him and 14 others. As the blast showered the pavement with broken glass and sent a column of black smoke into the sky, suspicion quickly focused on the country that has used political assassination to maintain...
...been traveling throughout Beirut and Lebanon for about two weeks now, but I can think of no better symbol for this strange country than a defunct hotel. It stands right next to the most expensive hotel in the city: the Hotel Intercontinental Phoenicia. Throughout Beirut, you can find groupings like this. An old hotel swimming pool—its walls riddled with bullet holes—sits next to a new luxury hotel along the waterfront. A shelled French Mandate-era apartment complex crumbles next to a modern office building outside of Beirut’s rebuilt downtown...
Admiration and envy, veneration and jealousy. Lebanon radiates conflicting emotions towards me as an American. The Intercontinental Phoenicia side of Lebanon welcomes Americans, American products and the American way of life. The Holiday Inn side threatens Americans, bombs McDonalds and angrily rejects a way of life that they will never be able to experience without a visa. Trouble is, I’m never quite sure which side I’m going...
Arabs with a new aversion to vacationing in the West after Sept. 11 are rediscovering Beirut en masse, filling up hotels during Islamic holidays. This week the luxurious seafront Phoenicia Hotel will house the Arab leaders in suites that cost up to $8,000 a night. Nearby, the site of the former U.S. embassy, bombed in 1983, is now a parking lot, while the American Marine barracks, hit by terrorists the same year, is part of a new airport complex...