Souk el tayeb, the first farmers’ market in Beirut and established by Lebanese Slow Food coordinator Kamal Mouzawak, takes place every Saturday in the Solidere neighborhood on the property of real estate company Société Libanaise de Développement et Reconstruction. The private company was created to reconstruct the city’s center after the civil war.
I am writing a small note just to update you about our situation.
On the 13th of July a Katusha rocket fell in Majd Al Krum, directly on the house of Samya Nasser, Sindyanna’s board member. Luckily she was tutoring in the summer camp and was not at home. Two members of the family were slightly injured. Her house was badly damaged. Two of our stuff members, including me, who live in Haifa decided to evacuate to safer places. Our warehouse in Kufur Kana was active but since the 19th, when rockets landed in Nazareth and killed two children we decided for the time being to close the warehouse and do the work we can from home, or from other safer places.
We hope this unnecessary and aggressive war will be finished soon, so we could go be back to our normal life.
Yours faithfully,
Hadas Lahav
Sindyanna of Galilee
For more information on the Galilee community of oil producers contact Séverine Petit, s DOT petit AT slowfood DOT com.
San Francisco (USA) convivium leader Carmen Tedesco’s interview of Kamal Mouzawak, convivium leader of Slow Food Beirut (Lebanon). Mouzawak talks about his work with the Slow Food Foundation for Biodiversity, specifically the farmers’ market in Beirut that he organizes, which is the first farmers’ market in Lebanon.
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