Downtown’s famous street seller

If you go around the Nejmeh Sqaure at night, there’s a high probability you will be frightened by a street seller yelling “BEIRUT!!!” from behind your back in an attempt to later sell you images of old Beirut. To my knowledge, this man, Saadallah Basha, is probably the only street seller in Downtown Beirut…

It was probably about time someone writes about him, and yesterday he made it to The Daily Star!

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5 Responses to Downtown’s famous street seller

  1. rouba February 24, 2012 at 1:21 pm #

    This is weird. Does he have a “wasta”?

    My understanding was that street vendors were not allowed in downtown. Not even street performers. I can’t remember where I had previously read that a musician was not permitted to perform downtown…

  2. rouba February 24, 2012 at 1:27 pm #

    Found it 🙂

    Public performance banned in Downtown Beirut
    by Habib Battah

    http://www.beirutreport.com/2011/11/public-performance-banned-in-downtown.html

  3. Rami February 24, 2012 at 2:29 pm #

    Thanks for bringing that up Rouba! I totally disregarded it.
    I doubt he has a wasta… but he indeed is a special case.

  4. Sarine February 24, 2012 at 9:11 pm #

    This person has scared the hell out of me on multiple occasions…

  5. Reyno February 27, 2012 at 3:46 pm #

    Just another Vendor Selling”BEIRUT”…

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