Inequality is stark in a country that has suffered one of the world’s worst modern economic crises. The winners are those who kept their money offshore
Women are draped in fur, men clasp the fattest of cigars and waiters rush around with bottles of tequila that cost five times the monthly minimum wage. It is 3pm on a Saturday afternoon at an après-ski party in the snow-peaked mountains of northern Lebanon, and the economic crisis that has hobbled the country for four years feels a million miles away.
The DJ has flown in from abroad, the champagne is flowing and reality is forgotten in the restaurant as hundreds of people — mostly in their thirties to fifties — dance the afternoon away.
