Word: beirutization
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...local media reports and Lebanese legal and financial sources, U.N. investigators asked Kenaan about his unexplained wealth and possible link to the looting of al-Madina Bank, which collapsed in 2003 after the discovery of a nearly $2 billion fraud scheme. In his last interview, given to a Beirut radio station, Kenaan angrily denied accusations of corruption, ending the interview by saying, "This is the last statement it is possible for me to give." A few hours later, he was dead...
Living with other Mormons can make this transition a little easier. Trading Beirut for Bible study means that they can focus on other challenges, like completing their first problem sets in years and trying to remember chemistry they haven’t thought about since high school...
...movies like the 2001 Brad Pitt thriller Spy Game are to be believed, the Lebanese civil war of the 1970s and '80s made the perfect backdrop for romance, chilled beer and good surf. Now Beirut's club scene offers a choice spot to get a taste of that cinematic vision: 1975, a tiny bar named for the year Shi'ite, Sunni and Christian militias sparked the 15-year conflict that devastated the city and killed thousands, including 241 U.S. Marines...
...would be easy to miss 1975, tel: (961-3) 323 700, on Monot Street in Ashrafiyeh, one of Beirut's hippest quarters, but the life-size mannequin of a combatant climbing the military webbing near the window gives it away. Inside, mortar shells and spent grenades are propped on ledges of the rough, bullet-pocked walls. Scrawled graffiti on the mezzanine level extols loyalty to armed factions, and the ceiling is lined with barbed wire. The music is not the techno pop blasting all night from most DJs' turntables across Beirut, but the nationalist crooning of wartime stars like Fayrouz...
...bombs have recently killed Lebanon's former Prime Minister and a prominent journalist. Yet the war is hot these days. A nightclub called B-018, tel: (961-1) 580 018, has seats fashioned like coffins that fold down to form a dance floor. T shirts for tourists boast, BEIRUT: IT'S A BLAST...