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0:00 Intro
2:50 Career
10:19 Social media
18:24 Not visible
31:06 Silos
36:45 L'Orient
40:51 St. George
44:38 Holiday Inn
1:01:22 Burj El Murr
1:09:37 Grand Theater
1:16:03 Martyrs Square statue
1:23:54 The fist
1:28:55 The egg
1:33:24 Connection
1:39:07 Beit Beirut
1:43:46 National museum
1:48:36 Generational shift

We're with Zaven Kouyoumdjian for Episode 336 of The Beirut Banyan.

Click to watch:
https://youtu.be/S6HAaWIXbTw

We discuss his over two decade career as a journalist in a shifting media landscape, his evolution from mainstay television screens to more alternative outlets, and his newly published book 'Beirut Guilty Pleasures' covering the city's layered - and scarred - history through photography and narrative text.

Zaven Kouyoumdjian is a renowned television host & journalist.

Check out 'Beirut Guilty Pleasures' at Antoine Bookstore and Antoine's online catalogue:
www.antoineonline.com

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Music by Marc Codsi. Animation & illustration by Sana Chaaban.