Ronnie Chatah started giving his walking tours of Beirut in 2008, during a period of stability for the city. He would guide tourists through the city, telling stories of Phoenician ruins, French architecture and Ottoman houses. He-d also talk about Lebanon-s civil war, and the problems that came to follow it. These were always stories about other people, other eras and other lives, until December of 2013, when Ronnie-s own life was sucked into the political unrest that he-d spent years talking about on his tour. This episode originally aired in August 2018. This episode is brought to you by GoSell by Tap Payments: https://www.tap.company/sa/ar/sell Kerning Cultures is a Kerning Cultures Network production. Support this podcast on Patreon for as little as $1 a month.