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Hi all,

I'm coming up to 40 this year. I initially wanted to organise a big bash in Beirut but a lot of my friends are a bit concerned with the situation there. Therefore we settled for Dubai. Where would be the best spot in town to have a memorable party and make sure they all go back to Europe with the wow factor?

snowman11 wrote:Hi all,

I'm coming up to 40 this year. I initially wanted to organise a big bash in Beirut but a lot of my friends are a bit concerned with the situation there. Therefore we settled for Dubai. Where would be the best spot in town to have a memorable party and make sure they all go back to Europe with the wow factor?

How about this:

Donate the money that you would otherwise spend on a party and ask your friends to join you in the cause. Plenty of refugees in Lebanon who would be grateful. They will certainly go back with a "wow factor" - wow we might have helped someone.

If not,

Well, it depends on how much you want to spend.

That's certainly an idea I didn't contemplate..

Any other suggestions?

snowman11 wrote:That's certainly an idea I didn't contemplate..

Any other suggestions?

As a matter of fact I do.

I saw this show on AlJazeera TV called "Witness" (they typically will have a story for 1/2 hour).

The title of the story is "Shooting Hope" and it has to do with a Professional Lebanese photographer providing a camera to Lebanese and Palestian young people and holding a photography class. They choose a topic, etc. The Palestinians are in a Lebanese Refugee camp.

It is interesting as many of the Lebanese kids have never been to the refugee camps or would dare go etc. and it seems like 2 different worlds.

The Cameras have to be returned at the end of the class. There is a particular young man in the story 14 years old who is quite compelling. He was kicked out of school and apparently can't read and clearly regrets it. He loves the camera and actually looks for work during the show at a wedding shop. He laments how it would take him years to come up with the money for the camera - he uses a Nikon Digital SLR camera.

I'm thinking that you and your friends could just pool your money together and buy a few cameras for these kids. Leave some money for a simple meal and it will the the best 40th birthday you ever had.

Note - as the Photographer is named and apparently welll known in Lebanon it would not be hard for you to make it happen.

Here is the link: http://english.aljazeera.net/focus/2010 ... 02482.html

How's that for a suggestion?