It's Sunday, October 13th, and I'm still in Hamra Bay route. I didn't ride the motorcycle up to the mountains because the traffic here is so chaotic and intense.

I think my chances of dying on the road are greater than being hit by a bomb.

Also, the young man who renter me the motorcycle

agreed to talk on tape.

Could you tell me your name and where we are now?

We are in Jemez Street and I'm Yajay onis.

Can you say you have your own story?

Yeah, yeah.

So I was born Muslim and I was raised by a Christian man, Father Hadi.

You were raised by a priest.

Yeah. When I was 18 I became Christian and I was proud of it in front of everyone. So therefore in political terms this makes me like in between.

We have two sides in Lebanon, the Christians and the Muslims and it's Russian or American you know and I used to work at the top petroleum industry in Lebanon and from there I got the idea of maybe electric vehicles should be more they should have more exposure it's the future and from there it all started.

I started a small startup and now it's a company.

I started with two motorcycles and now I have like around 43 vehicles, electric vehicles,

including scooters, bicycles.

And it was doing, it was booming.

I had like too many clients,

very good income. I had a ward from the EU.

We were doing all those positive change in the environment and in the community.

Now it's dying. It's dying because like one year of war it will destroy any business and now we're sitting in Jemezi Street which is like a very important street for the tourism for everything in Lebanon and it's

dying all the street is dying. Tell me about Jemezi Street why it's special.

Jemezi Street is it's special? Jimese Street is like a culture for Lebanon. The parties, the pubs, the clubs, the restaurants,

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