{"id":3026,"date":"2008-03-26T14:36:42","date_gmt":"2008-03-26T20:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=3026"},"modified":"2008-03-26T14:36:42","modified_gmt":"2008-03-26T20:36:42","slug":"ghaith-abdul-ahad-dreams-of-reaching-europe-grind-to-a-halt-in-beirut-ghetto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=3026","title":{"rendered":"Ghaith Abdul-Ahad: Dreams of reaching Europe grind to a halt in Beirut ghetto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/profile\/ghaithabdulahad\">Ghaith Abdul-Ahad<\/a> in Beirut, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/theguardian\">The Guardian<\/a><\/em>, 21 March 2008<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>This article appeared <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/theguardian\">in the Guardian<\/a> on Friday March 21 2008 on p30 of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/theguardian\/2008\/mar\/21\/mainsection\/international\">International<\/a> section.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karmalised.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/beirut1.jpg?w=640\" \/><br \/>\n<font size=\"1\">Muntaser, a young Iraqi refugee, washes his clothes in a shared toilet in the area of Sad el-Bousharya, Beirut. Photograph: Ghaith Abdul-Ahad\/Getty<\/font><\/p>\n<p>Rabi&#8217;a, an Iraqi refugee, is cooking in the narrow, filthy corridor that doubles as a makeshift kitchen in his tiny apartment in eastern Beirut. There is a gas burner, a sink, a cupboard and a small plastic bucket overflowing with garbage and potato peelings. At one end of the room a door leads to a reeking toilet. The heavy smell of urine mixes with that of the months-old oil he is pushing round the frying pan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I fry the best tomatoes in the world, the most delicious dish,&#8221; he tells me. &#8220;You must have some with us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In Iraq they used to call this dish the &#8220;dinner of the sanctions&#8221;, after the decade-long economic blockade imposed on the country in the 1990s.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2008\/mar\/21\/iraq.lebanon\">Read the article<\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>View <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/series\/baghdad\">Baghdad: City of walls<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nA series of films done by Ghaith Abdul-Ahad in collaboration with ITV News to provide a view of the current reality in Iraq on the five-year anniversary of the US-British led invasion of Iraq.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghaith Abdul-Ahad in Beirut, The Guardian, 21 March 2008 This article appeared in the Guardian on Friday March 21 2008 on p30 of the International section. Muntaser, a young Iraqi refugee, washes his clothes in a shared toilet in the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=3026\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-MO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}