A little house filled with Lebanon’s history

The Independent

Ibrahim Najem lives in what’s left of the little port of Ein el-Mreisse just back from the Beirut seafront where he used to dive. He’s a magpie of a man who collects. And collects. And collects. He lost the use of his legs emerging from an 80-metre dive in a vain attempt to rescue a fisherman friend in 1982. Now he sits outside his door, a bright rug over his useless legs, talking with enthusiasm about his Phoenician pots, clocks, rifles, swords, frogmen’s uniforms, mortars, keys, radios, cameras, coffee grinders, plates and colonial helmets. And firemen’s helmets. Ibrahim was a fireman, you see.

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