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Turns out that Beirut today is a very safe city just like any other american or european city.
Beirut,capital and largest city of Lebanon, located on the mediterranean sea.
The area of the city is roughly 67 sq km.
Beirut suffered in the 1970s and 1980sfrom civil warfare. But now it has been built again.You must visit Lebanon to feel it .... |
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Beirut survived a decade and a half of conflict and so has earned the right to call itself “the City that would not die”. As if to demonstrate this resiliency, the Lebanese have launched a great rush of building activity, including the public service infrastructure. In the ruined City Centre, a huge reconstruction project is underway to create a new commercial and residential district for the 21st century.
Commerce is second nature to Beirutis, who long ago discovered that their port city on the East-West crossroads was ideally placed for trading and business of all kinds. A banking centre with free currency exchange, the chief employment here is in the trade, banking, construction, import-export and service industries.
The Lebanese capital enjoys a vigorous press that publishes in Arabic, English, French and Armenian. Five Universities help keep ideas and innovations flowing. The flourishing art scene, including theatre, film making, music and plastic arts add to the sense that is indeed a city on the move.
Its many advantages also make Beirut a natural venue for international, regional or local conferences and conventions. Beirut’s Port, the largest in the Eastern Mediterranean, is equipped to handle tens of freight and passenger vessels. Further updating of its busy facilities will be made as part of Lebanon’s general reconstruction plan.
The new Beirut Airport with international standards, which serves the national carrier Middle East Airlines and numerous foreign airlines, has a capacity to handle six million passengers per year. |
A street in Beirut Some areas and bldgs. have been reconstructed and some have been built again after the war finished.
But the point is that these old bldgs. have an old design but they are new also cause they are reconsrusted and rebuilt.
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lotharlerch Sun Jul 6, 2008 17:14 UTC
A great page of your home city! I hope I can visit Beirut and the Lebanon in a not too far future. | ChrisRJ Wed May 28, 2008 19:01 UTC
Most people look at me funny when I tell them one of the things I really want to do is go on a big night out on the town in Beirut. Paris of the East! | Basaic Wed Jan 23, 2008 20:12 UTC
Thanks for your great Beirut Page | Manyana Thu Jan 17, 2008 08:31 UTC
let's meet middle way - in tabuk,lol |
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