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...business as usual in Beirut's packed nightclubs. The good-looking people in this good-time town have long partied to a sound track of popping champagne corks, clacking high heels and the generic beat of computer-generated dance music--whatever it takes to drown out the beat of Lebanon's continual crises. But for a relatively small number of Beirut hipsters, there's another sound track, one that evokes rather than denies the instability of their lives...
Rock and freedom--if not necessarily sex and drugs--got a boost in Lebanon in 2005, during what outsiders called the Cedar Revolution. Huge crowds gathered in central Beirut to demand an end to the Syrian occupation and the country's sectarian divisions. But the creative and intellectual frenzy that accompanied the Syrian withdrawal was cut short after the country's ruling sectarian political class co-opted the Cedar Revolution and turned Lebanon into a battlefield between regional superpowers. Spurred by last summer's war with Israel and by the current struggle between Iran and the U.S. over Lebanon...
...slow end to a sizzling summer along the shores of the eastern Mediterranean has brought harvest season to the Bekaa Valley. The fertile basin just over Lebanon's coastal mountain range may be well known as a hotbed of Shi'ite militancy that has at various times hosted some of the world's most notorious terrorists, but it is also home to Lebanon's wine industry. It's a very Lebanese experience to watch Bedouin farm workers in the early morning light that illuminates distant mosques, as they carry crateloads of grapes to be pressed into a liquid that Islamic...
...whole existence of wine-making is a contradiction to most of the preconceived notions people have Lebanon," said Ramzi Ghosn, who along with his older brother Sami founded Massaya, one of Lebanon's newer wine-makers, near the Bekaa town of Chtaura. The Ghosn brothers are part of the generation that left Lebanon during the country's brutal 15-year civil war, and who began returning in the 1990s to rebuild the country with skills they learned abroad. For Ramzi, who studied marketing in the United States, wine is a perfect vehicle for changing the perception that Lebanon is haven...
...stakes are high and the outcome will have an impact far beyond Lebanon's narrow borders. And that is why some Lebanese fear that the bomb blast is a grim portent for what lies ahead...