Some audio from my recent trip to Beirut. This is what celebratory gunfire from within a densely-populated urban centre sounds like - the Lebanese 'government' reversed two decisions that had provoked Hezbollah to take over much of Beirut, and people......more
Alex Strick van Linschoten - a war reporter on the road
Recently in Lebanon Category
BBC Radio 5 Interview
This link will take you to an MP3 of my interview yesterday with Chris Vallance on my way home from the airport. Light listening.......more
Crossroads
"Abu Skandar, who always drives by the university when he comes to Cairo from Heliopolis, has made this passegiata into his personal polling sample to measure the progress or regression of Islamic veiling. I secretly suspect him of privileging......more
Lebanon is Not the Issue
Discussion on Al-Jazeera regarding the various ways Lebanon's problems - as being played out in armed conflict today - are not Lebanese problems, but rather offshoots ("90%" in the words of one contributor to the discussion) of international and......more
Leaving Nairobi...but going elsewhere
Have decided to cancel my second trip to Somalia as the situation there has become too difficult to work. About 3 days ago the senior Shabab spokesman said that their group would start specifically targetting foreigners (i.e. white guys, not......more
Alex Strick van Linschoten - a war reporter on the road
Alex Strick van Linschoten is travelling in Afghanistan, Somalia, Iraq and the north Caucasus over the next 4 years for...