Mohammad Mita News Today

“Doesn't it remind you of the Hamidiyah market (Syria)?” asks a visitor in the town of Bar Elias, located in eastern Lebanon. The visitor is struck by the bustling market and the diverse crowd of Syrians—traders, workers, visitors, and investors. This has turned the town, near the eastern border with Syria, into the “capital of Syrian displacement” in the small Mediterranean nation. Bar Elias has earned the nickname due to the large number of Syrians living in and around the town.