Lebanese Hopes Fade Away

Rory Jones & Rima Abushakra, The National October 26, 2012

Lebanese Hopes Fade Away

Nada Saab had just set up her stall at the Beirut International Exhibition & Leisure Centerwhen a bomb ripped through part of the city killing eight people and any hopes of economic growth in the country this year.

Few people turned up last Friday at the In-Shape, health, beauty and fitness conference, nor for the following three days of the fair to which Ms Nada had paid US$6,000 (Dh22,039) to exhibit her pharmaceutical distribution company, Droguerie Salud."I collected all my employees and said 'I'm not going any more. I don't want you to go'," explained Ms Saab.

"No one was going to come with what was going on."

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