Since this film spans the city of Beirut's 1970s heyday as a glamorous tourist destination, as well as its civil war-ravaged incarnation a decade later, production designer Arad Sawat made use of Tangier's richly textured environments to embed the locations with hints of a happier past. "When we constructed the look of the film, we used the background of the '70s as a kind of back layer to the 1982 story," Sawat said. "We looked at signage in the street, and figured out which parts are French, which parts are Arabic, which parts are Western and Middle East together. So what you see is not just some war zone in the Middle East. What we shot for Beirut has a lot more flavor to it."

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