The following are excerpts from two articles published simultaneously on the BBC website.
Homeland angers minister over depiction of Beirut
” … Back to Beirut, the second episode in the new series of Homeland showed a terrorist meeting on Hamra Street – an apparent Hezbollah stronghold. The episode was actually shot in Israel … Lebanese Tourism Minister Faddy Abboud said filming “did not depict reality” … “It showed Hamra Street with militia roaming in it,” he told the Associated Press, adding that the real Hamra Street was actually a popular neighbourhood of shops and cafes … “This kind of film damages the image of Lebanon – it is not fair to us and it is not true,” “
Lebanese cabinet in emergency talks after Beirut bomb
… and there are more images of the misrepresented streets of Beirut here.
This is the Middle East.