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In the year 2002, the Saroulla closed its doors for business once and for all. It had been one of the most popular cinemas in Beirut in the 1960s, but the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990) and the ...

“My name is Mahler. As a lawyer, it is my legal opinion that West Berlin isn’t part of the Federal Republic, an independent political unit, and therefore, a simple West Berlin ID card is valid.” What ...

Lebanon’s acting central bank governor, Dr. Wassim Mansouri, has removed concrete barriers from outside the central bank’s headquarters on Beirut’s famous Hamra Street and reopened the ...