It’s been party time in Lebanon. At the Baalbek music festival, Vanessa Mae, the violinist renowned at least as much for her sexy image as for her playing, wowed 4,000 at the Temple of Jupiter. At the Beiteddine palace, Tito Puente and Celia Cruz brought salsa and mambo to the Chouf. And in Tyre, Iraqi-born Kazem al-Saher drew the biggest crowd of all, packing 5,000 people into the Hippodrome on a sultry Friday evening.
Sadly, the Monday morning after this weekend of international glitterdom would have brought many partygoers back down to earth with a bump.
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