Revival of old trades
amid worst-ever crisis

Xinhua

Standing in the middle of his workshop located in a neighborhood of Tripoli, the largest city in northern Lebanon, the blacksmith Khaled el Ali was expecting the visit of his old customers who used to buy his self-manufactured axes, hammers and agricultural tools before he closed his shop years ago losing to importers of foreign products.

Now that Lebanon is going through its worst-ever economic crisis amid an acute shortage in U.S. dollar and a resulting decline in imports, Ali decided to reopen his workshop. FULL STORY