Uploaded on 2015-05-19 by SergeWarde

[1]: https://edxuploads.s3.amazonaws.com/14320548049748666.jpg Beirut’s building craze, despite chronic political turmoil in recent years, has astonished even the experts, turning Lebanon into an investment haven at a time when other regions - including the oil-rich Persian Gulf - are hemorrhaging cash. It’s the new Beirut. It looks nice and modern, but the problem is you have to be rich to enjoy it. The $300 million mall was built by Solidere, Lebanon’s largest construction and development firm, on the site of a historic souk, or market. But with its high-end retail outlets, it is nothing like the bustling souks that existed there before the civil war, where people from all over the country came to buy everything from vegetables and clothes to jewelry.