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The blast killed over 220 people, injured more than 6,000, and leveled an entire section of Beirut in seconds.
At first, Andrée Sfeir-Semler focused on European artists. Then she pivoted to representing mostly Arab artists, leading a ...
The poet/singer apologises to the city for misunderstanding it, for maltreating it and calls on Beirut to “rise from beneath the rubble”. Yet the line that struck me the most, that echoed ...
Two years on from the devastating explosion that destroyed much of Beirut, architects and designers have shared first-hand accounts of how everyday life in the city continues to be profoundly ...
The 2020 Beirut explosion was sparked by tons of ammonium ... with large portions of the city leveled. Horrifying video footage captured a mushroom cloud erupting from the warehouse, shockwaves ...
After the civil war, the Lebanese state was in no position to finance the rebuilding of Beirut. Reconstruction of the once bustling city center was handed over to a private company, Solidere ...
Watch live from Beirut on Monday, 30 September, as an apartment building lies in ruins following an Israeli strike in the city centre for the first time since 2006. This feed shows a residential ...
Beirut today is a city of beautiful and fiery contrast. The memory of the violent Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990) still haunts the cityscape in the form of bullet-riddled buildings and cavernous voids ...
A city like Beirut is almost impossible to define. Over its 5,000-year history, it has bucked such attempts by locals and foreigners alike, consistently upending their predictions, hopes and ...
It is terrifying. Horrifying. Devastating. Beirut has utterly transformed in a matter of days. A bustling city centre is now crowded with people living rough, informal camps set up on pavements ...
He could easily have been writing about Beirut, this charming yet seemingly cursed city of trauma piled upon trauma, conflict layered upon conflict where we have spent the past eight days on ...
Beirut today is a city of beautiful and fiery contrast. The memory of the violent Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990) still haunts the cityscape in the form of bullet-riddled buildings and cavernous voids ...