Picture taken from NowLebanon - Ottoman-style house in Beirut Skyscrapers, malls and Shisha cafes are our new identity. The cars are parked in a line adjacent to Ottoman and French-style buildings in Beirut’s Martyrs Square. A tramway surrounds the square, and people walk along the wide sidewalk of Foch Avenue. This is how downtown Beirut looked in the first decades of the last century, now preserved only in old pictures. “My grandfather suppresses a tear…