Beirut will rise;

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    https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20200820-beirut-explosion-the-battle-to-save-the-citys-buildings

    The battle to save Beirut's beautiful buildings
    By India Stoughton 21st August 2020

    Photographer Joseph Khoury and architect **riela Cardozo spent five years documenting Ottoman and colonial-era houses that are now at risk of destruction, writes India Stoughton.

    Five days after the enormous explosion in Beirut that killed more than 220 people and left up to 300,000 homeless, Joseph Khoury and his wife **riela Cardozo undertook a painful pilgrimage through Gemmayzeh and Mar Mikhael, two historic neighbourhoods located close to the port. They carried 30 postcards – every photograph in their series Bouyout Beirut (Houses of Beirut), which captures the beauty of Beirut’s Ottoman and French mandate-era architecture. Skirting rubble, and searching among facades rendered unfamiliar by catastrophic damage, they tracked down 25 of the buildings.

    At each, they left behind a postcard – a reminder of what is at stake.  .......
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    With Macron's special interest attached, we wish the best of restorations.

    Cheers,
 
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