Badael-Alternatives بدائل

This week in Badael, I wrote my editorial on the Towers of Babel, as I call the hills of south Lebanon that are being terraced with huge mechanical machinery in order to make way for modern plantations (I will post separately). Rameh Hamiyyeh wrote about the impact of the weather fluctuation of cereal farming in the Bekaa, and on a great winter dish that uses dried summer vegetables: moqaddad. Am linking to the pdf copy because there is something wrong with the html links

http://www.al-akhbar.com/files/pdfs/20100423/p14_20100423.pdf