Beirut - Istanbul - Athens: the fate of tribes in a cosmo-local world

A more personal travelogue that starts in a Lebanese mountain community and ends up in a network nation

This is not a theoretical piece, but rather a record of my subjective experiences during a very interesting trip that brought me to three cities, while visiting three different types of tribal realities that persist in our high tech world. One is rooted in the world before modernity, but has quite successfully adapted to it, the second is a quintessenti…