Lebanese Takeaway

Houmous
Fattoush
Tabbouleh
Sambousek Jibneh
Sis Kebab
Plate shawarma dajaj
Sujuk

Tonight the two of us eat like little kings for pennies, while the Arab Media Forum delegates continue their portentous declamations on the importance of fostering media freedom to ever smaller audiences until just two are left. Jackets off and staggering along the Madinat's waterways in their shirtsleeves under the early morning starlight, arm in arm, they rage about how it would have been so much better if Gamal Abdel Nasser had got the Yanks behind him instead of the useless bloody Sovs.