Downtown Beirut, Trapped between Amnesia and Nostalgia

1. Before Reconstruction

2. After Reconstruction

3. Before Reconstruction

4. After Reconstruction

5. Before Reconstruction

6. After Reconstruction

7. Before Reconstruction

8. After Reconstruction

9. Before the war

10. After Reconstruction

11. Before the war

12. After Reconstruction

13. “Stop Solidere” sign hanging from the famous St. Georges Hotel
The owner of the hotel, Fuad Khoury has been in a legal dispute with Solidere over property
rights and illicit economic behaviours.

14. Violent clearing of a building occupied by tenants and owners
Source: An-Nahar 16 July 1998