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Before the Lebanese Civil War, Hamra Street was considered the most popular boulevard in all the Middle East and the intellectual heart of Beirut. Artists and intellectuals of all political stripes ...

journalist Stefan Aust gave an account of that day on which a group of French and German passengers arriving from East Berlin’s Schönefeld airport were literally ‘stranded’ against their will in ...

They set up shop in several locations including Beirut's Hamra district ... an Israeli strike turned the cafe Abdel Rahman Zahr El-Din had opened five years ago into a pile of rubble.

said her mother, Sindus Hamra. The family lives in ... Now they’ve settled in Ain el-Rummaneh, not far from their home in the southern Beirut suburbs known as Dahiyeh, which has come under ...

El Hamra Oil Company aims to ramp up production to 8,500 barrels per day (bpd), a significant increase from its current output of more than 5,500bpd. This target will be achieved through the ...