Beirut shopping holiday: Lebanese capital reborn with big names Versace and Jimmy Choo

By FRANK BARRETT, MAIL ON SUNDAY TRAVEL EDITOR All a-glow: Miss Lebanon in Beirut's Christmas parade In the brightest December sunshine we were standing in front of the Jimmy Choo shop watching a Christmas tree being built. As two young men perilously perched 30ft up in the bucket of a JCB, carefully lacing conifer branches into a metal frame, you couldn�t help noticing that all this was taking