Lebanon’s lighthouses have been guiding sailors and fishermen to port for centuries. For many years, these sentinels of the seas were manned by lighthouse keepers, whose job was to light and maintain them. Automation is making the gradual disappearance of this intriguing and inspiring profession inevitable. This is Beirut takes you on a discovery of these ladies of the seas, in a country where they are sinking into oblivion due to the negligence of the authorities.
