Downtown Beirut today

Decamping of the opposition from Downtown Beirut is an old news by now, and as you know people are back to going there again and filling almost every cafe and restaurant around the Nejmeh square.

So I went there today to see how does things look like now, and I was honestly surprised how fast the recovery phase was. Although there are still some business owners that are not done yet with the renovation work, but most of the almost all of the famous places are back into business again.

Here are some of the photos I took there.

Nejmeh Square (Click to enlarge)
Nejmeh Square

Full restaurants (Click to enlarge)
Full restaurants

In case you’re wondering about Buddha Bar, I think it will be re-opened soon since it’s currently being renovated. (Click to enlarge)
Buddha Bar

And finally, a silhouette of Riyadh Al-Solh statue. (Click to enlarge)
Riyadh Al-Solh

4 Responses to Downtown Beirut today

  1. ShiFeshil May 25, 2008 at 11:51 am #

    WOW that’s quite a few people !!! Great to see

  2. Farah May 25, 2008 at 9:12 pm #

    how nice , Lebanese people are so hard to break, each time they are down they go up on their feet as soon as possible… i guess this is what differentiate us from others… we just love to LIVE 🙂

  3. Marvin the Martian May 27, 2008 at 6:25 pm #

    Lovely pictures, thank you for posting them!

  4. Rami May 28, 2008 at 11:07 am #

    I love it when people show appreciate for my work 😀 Thanks!

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