In the latter scenario, Salamé is hosting guests at Antar’s vernissage in a resurrected building deep in the remaining skeletal ruins of Beirut’s generational civil war. Salame has the eye, the nose and the instincts for trade, going back to his student days during the civil war in Lebanon. War Zone as MarketplaceS. KarabellOne doesn’t think of a war zone as a viable marketplace for much more than guns and ammunition, but this is wrong. “I was too young, they wouldn’t take me seriously, and Beirut was a war zone,” he remembers. As the civil war descended further into flames around 1990, with the indiscriminate bombing of the country by Syria, Salamé’s jeans business took off.

Source: Forbes October 26, 2017 23:15 UTC