Lebanese residents ditch urban grind for ancestral towns and villages - in pictures


  • English
  • Arabic

Hasan Trad inspects his dragon fruit nursery at an agricultural field in the town of Kfartebnit, south of Beirut.

AFP
AFP

Many residents are ditching the urban grind for ancestral towns and villages, where they can cut on living costs and forge new connections to a long-forgotten agricultural inheritance.

AFP
AFP

Ms Thurayya, 28, inspects her avocado trees in the village of Sinay, south of Beirut.

AFP
AFP

Ms Thurayya left the Beirut neighbourhood where she was born and moved to the family farm, not as an environmental fad but forced by Lebanon's bruising crises.

AFP
AFP

Mr Trad, left, and his brother Abed prepare their field to plant seeds.

AFP
AFP

Mr Trad inspects his fruit.

AFP
AFP

More galleries from The National:

While you're here
Updated: December 05, 2021, 6:47 AM`