Beirut house, a Lebanese heritage symbol

Al Monitor

Yellow and destroyed, the Barakat house still stands at the Sodeco intersection in Lebanon’s Ashrafieh area. At the end of 2015, 40 years after the start of the Lebanese civil war, the building is going to reopen as a cultural and research center. Beit Beirut ("Beirut house") will be a place of memory and heritage dedicated to the city and its evolution.

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