Despite being populated by Christians and Muslims and located between Syria and Israel - existing in an almost perpetual war zone - Lebanon doesn't seem to make news headlines much today. When I was younger, Lebanon was in the news more often. It's beautiful capital city, Beirut, was once known as "the Paris of the East." Beirut was a banking haven for Middle Eastern oil wealth. Then Iranian revolutionaries eventually known as Hezbollah started organizing a civil war in Lebanon.