Last Summer, walking around Badaro, we'd regularly see this dapper older man playing the oud outside restaurants…

Due to Israel's indiscriminate bombing of south beirut, he's been displaced and now lives out of a van… 💔

He still plays music…

#beirut #lebanon #israel

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Abed Sabagh sits in his van in a tuxedo, playing his oud, surviving once again

Abed Sabagh, a 65-year-old musician in Beirut, survives displacement by playing his oud in a borrowed van, finding refuge and resistance in music.

^{Rayanne TAWIL (L'Orient Today)}