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Beirut, Lebanon – Beirut is filling up ... At the Casa D’Or, a four-star hotel on Hamra Street, a couple stands at the ...
Before the Lebanese Civil War, Hamra Street was considered the most popular boulevard in all the Middle East and the intellectual heart of Beirut. Artists and intellectuals of all political stripes ...
In 1982, Israeli tanks rolled down Hamra Street after Israel invaded the country, reaching all the way to west Beirut. In ...
Mezyan is the only bar and restaurant in Beirut’s famous Hamra Street with an old Arabic ambience. It is difficult to find the restaurant as its entrance is at the dark end of a commercial building.
journalist Stefan Aust gave an account of that day on which a group of French and German passengers arriving from East Berlin’s Schönefeld airport were literally ‘stranded’ against their will in ...