Lebanon: First 2 Weeks

I'm behind. Oops. Stories and pictures on the following to come:

-Meeting with Walid Jumblatt, leader of the Druze sect and Progressive Socialist Party, at his compound in the Chouf Mountains east of Beirut. He was a longtime ally of the US and its allies in Lebanon but just recently switched sides to ally himself with Syria.
-Visits to Hezbollah-controlled South Beirut and their stronghold in the Bekaa Valley.
-Meeting the family of Grand Ayatollah Fadlallah, the so-called spiritual guide of Hezbollah, at his tomb in the Hassanein Mosque in South Beirut. He passed away on July 4 at the age of 74.
-Visiting the infamous Shatila Palestinian Refugee Camp in South Beirut. Site of the 1982 massacre of thousands of Palestinian refugees by Christian militias and the Israeli Army.
-Food poisoning from free falafel some guy gave us in South Beirut.
-Visit to to Tripoli, the Cedar Forest, and the Christian strongholds on Mount Lebanon in the North.
-Celebrating the Fourth of July in Beirut by doing the most American things possible.
-Lebanese World Cup Fever. Everyone is either a fan of Brazil of Germany. Some are for Spain. Others for Argentina or really any team in the World Cup that wins. So lots of celebratory gunfire at the end of every game because the Lebanese cheer for whoever wins.
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