It's a temporary situation.
For decades, the Arab neighborhoods of Ajami and Jabalia marked the backyard of affluent, white Tel Aviv.
It represents Swiss interests in the areas of political, economic and financial affairs, legal arrangements, science, education and culture.
Historic Jaffa's rapid gentrification in recent years is coming at the expense of its mostly Arab lower class.
Since the Geneva II peace conference is showing little progress and the Syrian war rages on, poverty-stricken Syrians in Beirut have little chance to see their future improve any time soon.
In the daily clash over place and right to expression, for preservation, documentation, commemoration and silencing — be it over street signs or construction sites or classrooms or libraries, the two languages are right in the middle, locked in an embrace like a pair of experienced and exhausted wrestlers.
Daniel Monterescu Gentrification art is a sign of the major status change happening in the city, turning it from a shunned ghetto into a public creative space.
Far from myself but right in the heart of things.