Ivy says

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This article posted in USA TODAY describes Beirut as the place where the “city’s young and beautiful are bellying up to the hottest night spot, the bohemian Gemmayzeh neighborhood. Model-chic Beiruti women, sporting skinny pants, stiletto boots and cascading tresses, cluster in groups or with dates inside the hip bars, pubs and restaurants that line this milder Middle East version Bourbon Street.”

It goes on to  describe it as ” Sex and The City Meets South Beach.”

“Beirut is like a Lebanese Babylon, where Arabs can dance on tabletops, swim in bikinis and kiss their girlfriends in public,” says British journalist Warren Singh-Bartlett, a 12-year resident. In summer, the famous beach clubs hold their own against the playgrounds of Greece and Spain.”

I love how every journalist that writes about Beirut nowadays makes this discovery and starts comparing us to Lebanese Babylon or where otherwise strict Arabs come to release. Don’t get me wrong it’s a good article , but get over it people, this place is happening, its been happening for awhile so get over your discovery and lets party! Bisoux