Beirut: Middle East's Sin City | Contemporary Dining Table

now, after 25 years of intermittent war between internal factions and neighbouring countries, Beirut is patching up its battle scars and trying to reclaim its old label as the Paris of the East. ... We're sitting on the top floor of the hotel, with views across the central city and Martyrs Square, Beirut's Ground Zero. “at the time, Martyrs Square was filled with barricades and war tanks. But Gordon thought that Beirut had a spirit with such huge potential to reinvent ...