Lebanese fellows can be overly social. A typical home in Lebanon gets visited by family and friends several times, every day! If a day passes by and you don’t get visitors, something is wrong. To us here in the US this can be quite excessive because we’re buried in our work and daily errands and barely make time for ourselves, however somehow folks in that region tend to find time for such 10-15 minutes social “breaks.” And I tell you, if you don’t offer Lebanese coffee to your guests in such gatherings, they’ll likely ask for it