Hamra Street

And Beirut was full of Arab intellectuals, Palestinians, Iraqis, Syrians, Moroccans, everybody in Beirut.

And you walk in the Hamra Street, you see all these exiles, the best and the brightest of the Arabs in Beirut.

The politicians were plotting ways to return to power, but the artists and the writers and whatever, they made Beirut the publishing house of the Arab world.

Yeah.