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Lord’s Hotel coming down

  • byHabib Battah
  • Dec 22, 2014
This old Ras Beirut hotel has been abandoned for a few years and now looks to be coming…
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“This is not Ariel Sharon’s supermarket”

  • byHabib Battah
  • May 27, 2014
So reads the banner above, placed just outside an old supermarket on Makdessi street in Hamra. A handful…
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Vintage Hamra shopping center

  • byHabib Battah
  • Nov 9, 2013
This was probably all lit up Las Vegas style in the 1960s. But now the bulbs are burned…
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Lost Beirut: Long Beach Plage

  • byHabib Battah
  • Oct 24, 2009
Beaches are a sort of institution in Lebanon. For many, they symbolize the country’s relatively liberal social norms…
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