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This cosmopolitan mecca on the Mediterranean served during its Golden Age, from the 1950s to the 1970s, as a financial center ...
Civil society leaders in Lebanon continue to advocate for equitable urban infrastructure despite decades of political ...
A previously unknown work by famed 17th century Italian painter Artemisia Gentileschi, which survived the Beirut port blast ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
In North Carolina, Camp Lejeune supports the annual commemoration organized by the Beirut Memorial Advisory Board in coordination with the city of Jacksonville, according to spokesman Maj.
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 ...