“Honor the land. Honor the vines. Honor the goddess within you.” It is early Saturday morning and Tracy Chamoun is teaching her weekly yoga class at Chateau Belle-Vue. “Soften your hips. Soften your shoulders. Soften your face,” she continues and smiles into the room full of women who drove up from Beirut to be here. In Bhamdoun, surrounded by Belle-Vue’s vineyards, you may only be half an hour away from the capital but it feels like it’s worlds away. I first came across Chateau Belle-Vue last December. Racing around town to get my Christmas shopping done, I stopped at a wine shop in Saifi village to buy some bottles for visiting foreign colleagues. I figured a good red wine would be a special way for them and their families to have a taste of Lebanon at their Swedish Christmas tables. The friendly shopkeeper told me they only sell two Lebanese
Daisy is s seasoned journalist specializing in the Middle East, who spent over two decades covering major events like the Iraq invasion, Arab Spring, and the Syrian war. Fluent in Arabic,she connected deeply with local communities, sharing powerful human stories through documentaries and news reports. Currently, she is a multimedia correspondent for NOS, based in Beirut
