Lebanese Nightclubs Rock to Western Beats
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It is Friday night in Beirut's Nova  nightclub. The music is booming, the Lebanese crowd jumping  around and belting out lyrics to favorite tunes. But close your  eyes, and it is hard to remember that this is Lebanon.
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LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - Usher and OutKast were the top  winners at this year's World Music Awards, which took place for  the first time in Las Vegas.
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BYBLOS, Lebanon  - The Fishing Club in Byblos port, where the Mediterranean slaps against boats moored off Crusader ruins, offers one of Lebanon's most enticing views.
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BEIRUT -- Downtown Beirut was transformed into a river of red and white Lebanese flags yesterday as emotional demonstrators turned the funeral of assassinated anti-Syrian politician Pierre Gemayel into a show of support for the beleaguered pro-Western government.
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French is one of the common languages spoken around the sparkling blue pool at the David Intercontinental in Tel Aviv, along the sandy beaches of Netanya and Eilat and the hotel lobbies of Jerusalem this summer.
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On Saturday nights, Manila's urban elite throng the invitation-only VVIP room at Embassy nightclub, where foie gras and a flute of champagne are the de rigeur accompaniments to checking out the dance floor.
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Arts & entertainment: Guardian foreign correspondents explore the hottest night scenes in their adopted home cities.
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In the Beirut beauty salon where most of âCaramelâ takes place, women of various shapes, sizes, ages and backgrounds gather to bond and gossip.
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Throngs of Lebanese came out Thursday for two opposing gatherings: Hezbollah backers for the funeral of a slain militant suspected in hundreds of American deaths, and their pro-Western opponents to mark the assassination of an anti-Syrian former prime minister.
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"Battalion 5" might conjure up images of the next big computer game, but in Lebanon it's a group of musicians who express the misery of life in Palestinian refugee camps through rap.
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After HezbollahÂs war with Israel, there was a surge of music, video, sculpture, poetry and theater in Beirut, examining the issues raised by the 34-day war.
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An image of a group of young Lebanese driving a car through bombed-out South Beirut, taken by Spencer Platt of Getty Images Inc., won the top World Press Photo prize for news photography on Friday.
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The groove swings from the get-go. A clinking pi ano evokes ice cubes in a highball glass. Blasts of muted brass seem to cut like a foghorn through the thick nicotine-and-nostalgia haze of a nightclub.
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BEIRUT -- The Lebanese soldiers at the checkpoint peered through the barbed wire. Across the street from these men in their fatigues and combat gear, another group of men had arrived -- revelers in hip-hugging pants and tight shirts on their way to Acid, an openly gay nightclub in east Beirut.
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Lebanese and Palestinian militants are now showing greater coordination.
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On H Street Northeast, there are hipster bars that draw weekend crowds large enough to rival those of U Street. There is a dance studio that teaches ballroom, ballet and Afro-Caribbean. A massive red-brick luxury condo building is rising on the western end, touting the slogan "DC's next great qua...
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Young Arabs are turning to hip hop to express their feelings about  conflicts in the Middle East