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I saw this place in Mansourieh recently– that’s the hills above Beirut. Interestingly the massive American electronics store’s website does not show any locations in the Middle East, Europe or anywhere outside North America and China.

But this is no average Best Buy, it’s an “outlet” Best Buy:

Does this mean they sell discontinued electronics from last season?

Also let’s not forget Best Buy was originally a Lebanese idea, founded in Hamra. 

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Habib Battah is an investigative journalist and founder of the news site beirutreport.com. Battah has covered Lebanon and the Middle East for over 20 years and teaches journalism and media studies at the American University of Beirut. He is a contributor to Monocle, The Guardian, BBC World, Al Jazeera and others, a former fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University and two-time recipient of the Samir Kassir Press Freedom Award. Battah's investigative work was recently recognized for outstanding local reporting by the Columbia University Oakes Award for Environmental Reporting. Battah earned a B.A. in Journalism from the University of Texas at Austin and an M.A. in Near East Studies and Journalism from New York University.

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