Paradise Lost: Robert Fisk’s elegy for Beirut

	Elegant buildings lie in ruins. The heady scent of gardenias gives way to the acrid stench of bombed-out oil installations. And everywhere terrified people are scrambling to get out of a city that seems tragically doomed to chaos and destruction.
As Beirut – ‘the Paris of the East’ – is defiled yet again, Robert Fisk, a resident for 30 years, asks: how much more punishment can it take?Click here to download the full article.