In Transit: Rafik Hariri International Airport
Beirut’s Rafik Hariri International Airport is, like the city itself, writ larger in imagination than in reality. The pot-bellied security officers giggling with each other on cigarette breaks, the dour customs officials wielding rubber stamps like weapons, the Beiruti cultural resistance to queueing: all can strike the tourist passing through as delightfully quaint or soul-destroying. The 24-gate airport and the city alike are characterful places that reflect, and amplify, the mood of the traveler passing through it.
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