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The Egg in 2018. The Egg, or the Dome, is an unfinished cinema building in Beirut, Lebanon.Its construction began in 1965 but was interrupted with the outbreak of the Lebanese Civil War in 1975 and the horse-shoe shaped dome that remains today is now a landmark in Beirut.
The Ezzedine building, next to Cinema Opera, was the only other building on Martyrs’ Square to be retained after the Lebanon Civil War (1975-1990). Formerly the Royal Hotel, it was restored in 2001 and its original dome rebuilt, in the 2010s, the Al Nahar building was built next to it, across Waygand street.
The Beirut Central District is the historical and geographical core of Beirut, the capital of Lebanon. Also called downtown Beirut, [2] it has been described as the “vibrant financial, commercial, and administrative hub of the country.” [3] It is thousands of years old, with a traditional focus of business, finance, culture, and leisure. [4]
The new Metropolis Cinema location is located in Beirut’s Mar Mikhael district right across from where the tragic Beirut port blast occurred on Aug. 4, 2020 — one of the biggest non-nuclear ...
Shopping stores along vaulted alleys inside the Souks. Beirut Souks (Arabic: أسواق بيروت) is a major commercial district in Beirut Central District.With over 200 shops, 25 restaurants and cafes, an entertainment center, a 14 cinema complex, periodic street markets, and an upcoming department store, it is Beirut's largest and most diverse shopping and leisure area.
The new Rivoli cinema blocked the link between the square and the harbor. Martyrs' Square became Beirut's bus and taxi terminus and a popular venue for cinemas, coffee-houses, modest hotels and the red-light district. During the Lebanese Civil War (1975–1990), the demarcation line that divided Beirut into east and west ran through Martyrs ...
The cinema of Lebanon, according to film critic and historian Roy Armes, is the only other cinema in the Arabic-speaking region, beside Egypt's, that could amount to a national cinema. [7] Cinema in Lebanon has been in existence since the 1920s, [ 8 ] and the country has produced more than 500 films.
The Grand Théâtre, Lebanon also known as the Grand Théâtre des Mille et Une Nuits [1] was a theatre located in downtown Beirut, Lebanon. The structure is currently unused. The structure is currently unused.