It's 1:33 AM here in Beirut, I'm tired and a little buzzed from half a night out on the town, still exhausted and shaken up from having flown from Cairo to Dubai on Egypt Air, the world's first airborne porta-potty.



Beirut was crazy tonight. The rejuvenated hustle and bustle of the Centreville (a word I haven't used in nearly three years) with it's posh roadside cafes and restaurants and the electric crowd outside White would cause any foreigner disbelief to know that only two days before, the area was one big camping town.