In this April 10, 2014 photo, luxury high-rise buildings line the seafront, in Beirut Lebanon. One by one, the old traditional houses of Beirut are vanishing as luxury towers sprout up on every corner ...

BEIRUT — A massive explosion Tuesday at the port in the Lebanese capital of Beirut left at least 135 people dead and thousands of other people injured. Update 8:05 a.m. EDT Aug. 6: Officials in ...

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Twenty-five years after the end of Lebanon’s civil war, many of Beirut’s buildings still bear pockmarks and scars from the conflict. The city is rebuilding itself and its resilient residents are more ...

Before it became the poster child for urban disaster areas in the mid-1970s, Beirut was called the Paris of the Middle East. With its French Mandate architecture, its world-class cuisine, its ...

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On the afternoon of August 4, 2020, a deadly blast in the port of Beirut plunged the city into catastrophe and tragedy. The sudden explosion of 2,700 tons of ammonium nitrate killed 218 people and ...

“Definitely Beirut is devastated,” was Dr. Rita Rhayem’s short assessment of conditions three days after a catastrophic explosion in the city’s port district sent a shockwave across Lebanon and then ...

BEIRUT — Amid the largest anti-government protests Beirut has ever seen, something unusual has been unfolding in the city’s downtown. The center of Lebanon’s largest city sorely lacks public spaces — ...