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‘The mosque was closed but the nightclub opened its doors’: bombed-out families find shelter in Beirut venue
The exclusive Skybar welcomed in 400 Lebanese people made homeless in the ever-widening war
Inside the cavernous black walls of Beirut’s most exclusive after-hours club, two people are asleep on sofas tucked under the DJ booth. Beds fill the section normally used for bottle service, and piles of blankets are piled high on tables around the dancefloor.
Outside the guest entrance to the hulking venue is a family who fled rural southern Lebanon camps. Now their goat is chewing leaves from a tree branch that supports a washing line and a makeshift kitchen.
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