Ronnie Chatah, the storyteller who refuses to let Beirut forget its troubled past

Ronnie Chatah has channelled his energy into a podcast which gives a platform to many of those who, like Ronnie, lost loved ones to political assassination, write Hannah McCarthy

 Ronnie Chatah delivering his walking tour in Beirut.

For a city with a long and storied history, Beirut doesn’t make it easy to remember it.

Ronnie Chatah has been on an almost two-decade-long, one-man mission to remedy this historical amnesia by telling stories of Lebanon’s complicated and frequently dark past. Soft-spoken and pony-tailed, the Lebanese podcaster and columnist speaks to the Irish Examiner from the rooftop of Kalei, a popular café in Mar Mikael in East Beirut.