Tent City Not Cool Anymore

Hanin Ghaddar wrote a piece for Now Lebanon on how the Tent city is losing its people. Ahh, the good ol’ days with all the parties, free food and endless speeches. Things never stay the same do they?

“The camp is not entertaining anymore,” complained Ghassan, a 23-year-old student from Beirut’s southern suburbs. “When the sit-in first began, we had the will and the enthusiasm to go down there every day, as we were convinced that the Siniora government would certainly give in to our demands soon.” Ghassan and his friends, however, have stopped going to the sit-in, because they started to feel that it was not leading anywhere.