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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.
Despite such occasions of attacks, Lebanese Muslims and Christians and Palestinians protected the Jews living in Lebanon. [30] Yasser Arafat, the leader of the PLO, order the militants to protect the Maghen Abraham Synagogue in Beirut. The Palestinian militants provided humanitarian aid to the Jewish community, affected by the civil war. [30]
Today the Maronites are believed to compose about 26% of the population, concentrated mainly in the province of Mount Lebanon and Eastern Beirut (Greater Beirut). The second largest Christian group is the Eastern Orthodox that constitute at least 9% [26] of the population.
Lebanese creatives speak about the realities of living and working in Beirut, one year after the warehouse explosion at the city's port destroyed their studios, their hometown, and life as they ...
Among those returning home was Zahi Hijazi, a 67-year-old who originally hails from southern Lebanon but had been living in Beirut's suburbs for decades. "Our life savings...
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.
Janet Lee Stevens (December 1, 1950 – April 18, 1983) was an American journalist, human rights advocate, translator, and scholar of popular Arabic theater. She lived in Beirut during the Lebanese Civil War and chronicled the experiences of Palestinian refugees before and after the Sabra and Shatila Massacre of September 16–18, 1982.
Hala Kobaissi, a makeup artist living in Beirut's Salim Salam neighborhood — just a stone's throw from Bachoura, where at least nine people were killed in an Israeli strike on the city's heart ...