A study in contrast when disasters strike
(WorldNews Business)

In 1965, my parents-in-law had visited Beirut for a few days; I got married in 1978, and over the years, they would fondly remember the dazzling city, popularly called the ‘Paris of the East`. Europe was beyond their reach and they were so grateful for the great time they had in Beirut. My mother-in-law would proudly tell us how she had insisted and accompanied her husband to a nightclub and had a rollicking time there. Apart from the shopping, of course! But by the time I heard those nostalgic stories, Lebanon, and of course its capital Beirut, had moved to horrific times because of the civil war followed by the Israeli-Lebanese conflict, resulting in a series of violent clashes involving...