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Palestinians in syria, most of them are well educated. doctors, engineers, lawyers, teachers. nick: but here, now, it s the opposite right? najem: here in lebanon, even if you were a doctor, or a lawyer, or a teacher, you can work only in the camp. we don t know how to go, where to go, to go back to syria. anthony: can t. no can do? najem: to cross the sea anthony: can t? najem: suppose that lebanese authority collect us and throw us away to syria, what is going to happen? we have no area in the world. we have no place in this universe. we belong to nowhere. nowhere. ....
They are waiting for godot, they wait for nothing. they wait for the help of god. anthony: straining under the weight of all these unasked for guests, the lebanese government has begun making it very difficult for them. najem: he doesn t work only because he doesn t have an official residence. so he can t leave the camp. otherwise he will be arrested, you know. anthony: being stopped at any of the city s ubiquitous military checkpoints could mean a one-way ticket back to syria. trapped, unable to work, they exist invisibly on the margins of society. najem: no photos here. this is a military area. you don t want to get involved in any problem. anthony: syrian food? najem: this is syrian. it is called the seven countries. it consists of many kinds of vegetables. seven kinds of food. ....
ramsay: this is very similar to that place we went to years ago, barbar. this is rizk. this is your, you know, traditional chicken sandwich, shawarma. marwah: deep-fried, broasted. anthony: the broasted chicken was this guy s idea, my british-lebanese friend. born, born to be wild ramsay short, who i met back in those bad old days of 2006. apparently he s in with the lebanese chapter of the harley davidson group, or hog for short. so, when you roll into some religiously conservative village on these monster bikes in leather jackets. what s the reaction? suzan: two types: once, we were greeted with rice from the balconies. like, they thought we were, like, a wedding or something really nice and the other extreme was stones, like, at the wheels, like, just get out of here. anthony: really? suzan: yeah. anthony: i wouldn t throw stones at people on harleys. [ laughter ] whoa, look at this. ramsay: let s dig in. anthony: man, that ll work. ....
And this is kibbeh nayyeh, which is raw meat, lamb, fresh mint, spring onion, mix it all together. and this is as the main course. it s called moussaka. minced meat, baked aubergine, green and red pepper, and chickpeas, and tomato and tomato paste. please help yourself. anthony: thank you. i was in beirut in 2006. this neighborhood was hit very hard. mr. hafez: yeah. anthony: were you here at that time? mr. hafez: yeah. it was a disaster. anthony: why this neighborhood? mr. hafez: because the people in this area, ninety-nine percent, they support hezbollah. archival: as israel buries its dead from a surprise hezbollah missile strike and the radical shiite group celebrates a victory, the rhetoric on both sides is at a fever pitch right now. ....
ramsay: this is a famous neighborhood of the city. marwah: this area, it was central during the civil war, this place. ramsay: yeah. anthony: the sheer volume of fire that was poured into some of these buildings is absolutely unbelievable. marwah: yeah so much fire and so many battles happened in the same place over anthony: over and over and over and over. marwah: over and over again. anthony: clearly. marwah: i notice this every time someone visiting the city, they just point at them. oh look at that! but, you know, we don t see them anymore. we just pass by them. anthony: beirut, seemingly the world in miniature. eighteen religious sects recognized. more than two million christians. over a million and half shiites. a million and a half sunni. nearly five hundred thousand palestinians. and now, by some estimates, as many as two million syrians all ....