Over the past 120 years, a Beirut bakery has survived civil war, Lebanon’s financial crisis and the Covid-19 pandemic. Fighting in Ukraine, disrupting food and energy supplies world-wide, may soon put it out of business.
Zouhair Khafiyeh’s storefront is empty of the pastries and meat-stuffed pies he has sold for years, which helped put his children through college.
The cost of a bag of flour on the black market has gone up more than 1,000% since Russia’s Feb. 24 invasion. Mr. Khafiyeh said he has raised prices by 50% and now bakes only when customers order and pay up front.
“We cannot continue like this,” said Mr. Khafiyeh, 54 years old….
