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Believe It — People Are Still Writing “Beirut Is Back” Columns

January 5, 2011 · Mustapha Hamoui

The Toronto Star:

Sitting here sipping fresh hot chocolate on Hamra Street, I could swear I’m in Manhattan’s Upper West Side. There’s a patchwork of tile under my feet, the teenagers […] are speaking English, and there are enough cafés to make the cast members of “Friends” jealous. And I swear I just heard Tupac blasting out of that guy’s convertible.

Beirut is friggin’ awesome man, they speak friggin’ English man, in a friggin’ Moslemian country !