Casino Beirut Night Club

Rina talks about the night life in Beirut.

Todd: So, Rina, you were saying Lebanon, or Beirut, has really good night clubs. (Mm-hm) Ah, what's a really cool night club in Beirut?

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Rina: My favorite night club was rated 5th in Maxim magazine, and it's called B. O. 18, and what it used to be was a Palestinian burial ground and,

Todd: Wait a minute! (Yeah) It, there's no longer dead people there?

Rina: No, no, no. It used to be. (OK) Just during the civil war, cause there was a 17 year war, and what it is, you walk up, you don't see anything, it's just a big open space, but you see these, like, almost like subway stairs going down, and you go down these stairs and the theme inside this place is death, and it's like a big coffin, so you have red velvet walls and all the tables are little coffins with Palestinian soldier pictures on it and single rows and it's just a really good, it's a really neat club. And I went to a lot of theme clubs, too, I went to one that's called The Music Hall and it's like just, like a big theater, it was just amazing.

Todd: So, what's The Music Hall like?

Rina: Um, well they had that night I went, they had five different groups: One American group, one Spanish, one Lebanese, and they all just, it's like a theater, like scene one, scene two, and each scene would be a different music, genre like, you know.

Todd: That's pretty cool.

Rina: Yeah, it was cool.

Todd: So, at these night clubs, how do people dress? What's the fashion?

Rina: Um, Lebanese girls, and people that were like Lebanese girls, they're very trend conscious. Oh, yeah. Like if it's in a magazine, they're wearing it type thing. They look down on anybody, that doesn't.

Todd: Ah, so.

Rina: Yeah, and it's all like, done up like they went to the salon that day to go out sort of thing.

Todd: Wow! (Yeah) So we're talking, like the skimpy dressed that they have?

Rina: Everything. Oh, yeah.

Todd: Your kidding. What do the guys dress like?

Rina: Ah, the guys are, they dress prettier than some of the girls.

Todd: No kidding.

Rina: Yeah, the guys dress really well, but very, just as I said, very trend conscious. Everybody's very image, image conscious. It's really a lot like Japan in that way.

Todd: Mm, oh cool. Thanks.

burial ground

It used to be a Palestinian burial ground.

A 'burial ground' is a cemetery, or a place where people put their dead. Notice the following:

1. We visited the burial ground of my ancestors.
   
2. When they started to prepare for the new building they found a burial ground on the property.
   

theme

You go down these stairs and the theme inside this place is death.

A 'theme' is a subject or an idea of a certain place or event. In this case, the idea is death and the decorations are probably images of death. Notice the following:

1. The theme of the party is love.
   
2. The decorations in the house had a very modern theme.
   

neat

It's a really neat club.

In this case, 'neat' means cool, interesting, fun or entertaining. Notice the following:

1. My new computer is very neat.
   
2. Have you eaten at the new Italian restaurant? It's neat!
   

trend

Lebanese girls, they're very trend conscious.

A 'trend' is something that is popular right now. We use this to refer to clothes, food, activities, etc. Notice the following:

1. He always follows the trends.
   
2. The new hairstyle trend is really interesting.
   

look down on

They look down on anybody that doesn't.

If you 'look down on' something, you don't approve of it or think it's a good idea. Notice the following:

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1. They will look down on you for smoking.
   
2. She looks down on people if they are not rich.
   

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Casino du Liban is a casino located in Maameltein, in Lebanon and is 22 km north of Beirut.

With an area of about 35,000 square meters, the casino has around 400 slot machines and 60 gaming tables. It has a showroom, night club, theater, banquet facility and five restaurants. The casino was first opened in 1959. It closed in 1989 during the Lebanese Civil War and reopened in 1996 after a $50 million reconstruction and refurbishment project.^[1][2]

The Casino du Liban is majority-owned by Intra Investment Company, a Lebanese government-controlled company which is the remainder of the former Intra Bank, with the remainder of the shares held by private companies and individuals.^[3] The casino is managed by London Clubs International, a subsidiary of Caesars Entertainment.^[4]

Performers at the Casino's night club included Duke Ellington, Danny Thomas, Jacques Brel, and Julio Iglesias. Visitors at the casino included King Hussein of Jordan, Albert II, Prince of Monaco, the Shah of Iran, Aristotle Onassis, Omar Sharif,^[5] and Osama bin Laden^[6]

In his memoir of the international hotel business, Shadow of the Sun: Travels And Adventures in the World of Hotels, Peter J. Venison wrote that the Casino du Liban 'was elegant, yet the cabaret was spectacular and rivaled anything that Las Vegas could offer'.^[7] He also described it as a backdrop of a James Bond novel where clientele from the richest elite of European and Arabian societies ventured into the casino in formal black-tie attire.^[8]

In literature[edit]

• Captain from Corfu by Muriel Maddox

'A tour of the city was planned and that evening dinner at the Casino du Liban.'

• The Man in the Middle by Hugh Atkinson

'The Casino du Liban was set on a cliff, outside Beirut on the coast road.'

• Danger and Opportunity: An American Ambassador's Journey Through the Middle East by Edward Djerejian, former United States Ambassador to Syria and Israel

'One of my early impressions of the contrasts of life in Lebanon was my first visit to the Casino du Liban—a luxurious gambling and entertainment spot in maamlten on the Mediterranean coast north of Beirut.'

References[edit]

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1. ^'Casino du Liban - History'. Archived from the original on 2013-06-16. Retrieved 2017-09-17.
2. ^Lebanon Casino project gets 74 bids UPI archives October 4, 1994[1]
3. ^State-Owned Enterprises in the Middle East and North Africa: Engines of Development and Competitiveness? By OECD pp96-98[2]
4. ^Lebanon's historic Casino du Liban gambles with online venture The New Arab January 16, 2017[3]
5. ^The Lebanese Connection: Corruption, Civil War, and the International Drug Traffic By Jonathan Marshall[4]
6. ^Bin Laden: The Inside Story of the Rise and Fall of the Most Notorious Terrorist in History By Adam Robinson[5]
7. ^Venison, Peter J. Shadow of the Sun: Travels And Adventures in the World of Hotels, page 235
8. ^Venison, Peter J. Shadow of the Sun: Travels And Adventures in the World of Hotels, page 235

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