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Beirut became the first Middle Eastern capital to boast a Campbell Gray contemporary luxury hotel which, as the owner puts it, is as stylish as the city itself. "I came to Beirut four-and-half-years-ago when Solidere was restored and I couldn't believe it is the same city I visited 12 years ago when it was bombed out," hotelier Gordon Gray told The Daily Star.

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