Service Taxis

Lebanon’s Cabbies on the Syria-Israel Negotiations

View from a ’72 Benz C250 series, issue no. 1. Beirut’s service taxi drivers are more oppressed than usual these days. The new Interior Minister, Ziad Baroud, is proving his mettle by enforcing the long-ignored seat belt law, and so the chauffeuriyyeh are predicitably getting shafted, not least because most old cabs don’t even have working seat … Continue reading →