“I made sure that the clients are completely dissociated from Beirut”, explains Chafik El khazen, the owner of Sky Bar. This young Lebanese, who is barely thirty one years old, had many experiences concerning the “roof top”. In 2002, when he came back from California, where he studied for many years, he decided to import the concept of the bar in the open air, while it was inexistent in Lebanon. Therefore, he created the Palm Beach Hotel, in the Menara, the big cornice of Lebanon. However, three years later, the lease expired and he had to abandon his project. “Everyone warned me from creating another bar, but I didn’t want to listen to them”, says Chafik El Khazen. Finally, Sky Bar saw the light on the 11th of July 2006. An awful date, because twenty four hours later, the war erupted between Israel and Hezbollah. The business was obliged to close and there was more than a 450.000 dollar-loss because of the July war. One year passed by before the reopening of Sky Bar. Since then, it is always full and it breaks the record by having more than 4.500 entrances every night. In the summer, jet-setters from all over the world rub elbows with Lebanese from the Diaspora. They are between 25 and 50 years old. If we ever want to find a common denominator for them, of course it will be their clothes: perfect, sophisticated, and sometimes sexy on some women’s bodies. “Here, people come to show-off and not to dance. Welcome to the show-off, the Lebanese way”, explains Salah mockingly, leaning on the table with a cigar in his hand. And before this Lebanese man expatriated to Dubai finishes his explications, a burst of flames suddenly appears on the terrace “this is part of the show”, he added with a smile. The crowd went directly hysterical, and the bodies woke up. Two women got on the bar to dance, the hair floating in the air… “When such energy invades the nightclub, people go crazy. The Lebanese adore spending money, and seeing 50.000 dollars of tips left on a table at the end of the night is not rare”, explains Chafik El Khazen. The one who seriously says that he hates the “Nouveaux Riches” is constantly fighting Sky Bar. “I want to put Lebanon on an international card and let people see that it is not only the country of Hezbollah. If one day the militants of this party take the power, we’ll vanish; I always keep this in mind. Maybe this explains the fact that we do whatever we want here…”, declared Chafik El Khazen.