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The Beit Beirut in 2011. The Museum and Urban Cultural Center of Beirut or colloquially; Bayt Beirut/Barakat (Arabic: بيت بيروت / بركات; literally "the house of Beirut/Barakat") is a venue serving as a war memorial museum and artwork showcasing center dedicated to portraying the history of Beirut, with a particular focus on the Lebanese Civil War from artistic point of views.
Beirut (/ b eɪ ˈ r uː t / ⓘ, bay-ROOT; [4] Arabic: بيروت, romanized: Bayrūt ⓘ) is the capital and largest city of Lebanon.As of 2014, Greater Beirut has a population of 2.5 million, just under half of Lebanon's population, [5] which makes it the fourth-largest city in the Levant region and the sixteenth-largest in the Arab world.
6 June 1982 – Israel undertakes military action in Southern Lebanon: Operation "Peace for Galilee." 23 August 1982 – Bachir Gemayel is elected to be Lebanon's president. 25 August 1982 – A MNF of approximately 400 French, 800 Italian soldiers and 800 marines of the 32nd Marine Amphibious Unit (MAU) are deployed in Beirut as part of a peacekeeping force to oversee the evacuation of ...
Subject to convoluted and complex political machinations even at the best of times, tensions are rising in beleaguered Beirut, with three car bombs detonating in one month’s time.
The Sabra and Shatila [a] massacre was the 16–18 September 1982 killing of between 1,300 and 3,500 civilians—mostly Palestinians and Lebanese Shias—in the city of Beirut during the Lebanese Civil War.
Adnan's digitally manipulated photograph of the aftermath of an IDF attack on Beirut. Before and after image manipulation Digitally manipulated photograph of an IAF F-16 deploying a single flare over Southern Lebanon; the flare was digitally duplicated to make it appear that several missiles were being fired.
Lebanese Oscar entry “Arzé” takes its cues from Vittorio De Sica’s “Bicycle Thieves,” but maps the classic story onto modern-day Beirut. Mira Shaib’s directorial debut has the growing ...