Downtown Beirut, Response on Mohsen’s Article Essay

Downtown capital of Lebanon a spot bourgeon les bourgeois In his article Downtown Beirut A metropolis of Ghosts? , published in the Alakhbar English journal on Saturday, January 7 2012, Ahmed Mohsen describes the nitty-gritty of Beirut as an empty, fake, artificial hanging spot for the elite, so out-of-town and alienated from the culture and the civilization of the good old Beirut know for its diversity among different companionable classes.Mohsen considers build the capital by and by the traumatizing state of war give up and then its true identity and covered its alleys with fake architecture that destroyed the historical apricot of what once was known as the capital of France of the Middle East. For many, whats known today as Solidere , projects the new post war era, the era of a flourishing economy and an legitimate society. In fact, the new buildings are indeed nothing much than an price imitation of other countries architecture leaving the old Beirut and its su fficient Middle Eastern history nothing more than a keeping along with its social traditions.Mohsen pointed out in his article that after rebuilding the center of the capital, the original citizens in Wadi Abu Jamil and its surroundings are no prolonged there. According to the authors article Wadi Abu Jamils original residents and owners have vanished. (Page 120) I personally believe that the old Beirut with its old, wrecked buildings and displace dirty alleys is a unique haven of coexistence between the various ghostly sects and the different social classes unlike the new Down Town or DT with its new original buildings inhabited by only one social class.The High class. The reconstruction of Beirut put money and artificial beauty over the unity of the classes and the unity of the different masss that lived for centuries in Lebanon and their reunification after the devastating war. In his article, the author criticized the fact that only rich people can shop or hang out in the DT dictum For those who can afford it, the place to shop in downtown is Beirut souks. (Page 119). In fact, all the shops present in downtown are indeed expensive for the average citizen.But the problem is that even the most rudimentary things in a small shop are much more expensive than any other place in the country. Buying a simple cone of ice cream will approach you something more or less 2000 L. L in Lebanon, but buying it from downtown will cost you about 7000 L. L. All the artificial beauty that is supposed to encourage the Lebanese around the world to go back to their country is in fact, a repulsive, ugly place reserved for the elite and rich tourists from neighboring Arabic countries.