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Rising from the ashes, Beirut rebuilds after years of strife
This cosmopolitan mecca on the Mediterranean served during its Golden Age, from the 1950s to the 1970s, as a financial center ...
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Beirut has rebuilt before. Here’s how the city will do it again.
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 ...
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Lebanese Student Makes 'Ghost City' Tours of Beirut
The reconstruction of Downtown Beirut by Solidere ... about the process that rebuilt the once-vibrant urban center as a “ghost city” populated largely by empty condominiums alongside high ...
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Solidere unveils its future plans for “Beirut City Center”
“As part of its commitment to rebuilding the Beirut City Center district, Solidere launched the major development of “Beirut Souks”. Located at the heart of the city’s primary road ...
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Intense Israeli Airstrikes Send People Fleeing Beirut in Panic
The Israeli bombardment of Beirut and its surroundings on Tuesday ... a series of evacuation warnings — the first for the city center during the war. Around 10 minutes later, airstrikes began ...
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Four killed in initial toll in Israeli occupation new raid on Beirut city center
SANA- The Israeli enemy committed a horrific massacre Saturday in al-Basta area in Beirut city center that killed four in an initial toll, while 23 others injured, a residential building was ...
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Beirut like a local
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 ...
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Report from scene of Beirut city centre air attack
Al Jazeera’s Zeina Khodr reports from the scene of a deadly Israeli air attack around a kilometre from Lebanon’s parliament in Beirut city c Dramatic video shows assisted living facility ...
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Four years after deadly Beirut waterfront blast leveled much of the city, no one is being held accountable
Four years after a fiery chemical blast on Beirut’s waterfront killed more ... with large portions of the city leveled. Horrifying video footage captured a mushroom cloud erupting from the ...
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Fear engulfs Beirut residents after Israel expands deadly strikes into city centre
BEIRUT, Oct 11 (Reuters ... Now they were heading to the northern city of Tripoli. "They say it's safe there," said the woman of the family. "We have elderly family members who couldn't handle ...
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Airstrike hits apartment in Beirut city centre - as minister warns Lebanon on 'verge of catastrophe'
An apparent Israeli airstrike has hit an apartment building in central Beirut in what is believed to be the first attack in the centre of Lebanon's capital city since the current conflict with ...