Beirut

Since the Eleventh century, there has been a sizable Druze presence, concentrated in rural, mountainous areas east and south of Beirut.

Two other explosions Sunday reverberated across Beirut, apparently caused by an air raid on Hezbollah areas in the southern suburbs.

Secretary General Moussa said he would be going to Beirut in the next few days for talks on the proposal.

Yet weeks later he told Hariri that President Lahoud was staying, and he would break Beirut over the premier's head if he resisted this.

Staff working in the Islamic finance sector will be able to enter computer-based exams in London and Beirut from November 2006.

Thousands of shabab had been camping out in downtown Beirut for the past month in the hope of bringing down Lebanon's U. S.

Midnight - No trip to Beirut is complete without partying in Music Hall, an old cinema converted into a cabaret-style venue.

At this time there was a bookshop in Beirut where you could buy language guides and tapes for all the languages of the world.

Mona Hatoum was born into a Palestinian family in Beirut, Lebanon in 1952 and now lives and works in London and Berlin.

From the interwar period a number of schools sprang up in Baghdad, Beirut, Cairo, Damascus and Tunis.

In Beirut, Lebanon's defense minister said the Lebanese army will defend the country's borders if Israel invades.

In Lebanon school's out for summer - to the obvious delight of these Beirut pupils.

Beirut has also asked the United Nations to help establish a temporary boundary, and the UN has agreed to that.

South of Beirut, Israel says more than 20 Hezbollah guerillas were killed in fierce fighting in and around the border town of Bint Jbeil.

He too only survived a few weeks, before he was blown to smithereens in a massive car bomb blast in Beirut.

A FEW MONTHS AFTER Ahmadinejad's victory kebab, I found myself in a part of downtown Beirut called Martyrs' Square.

And not the US, which is bogged down in Iraq and remembers well the 1983 bombing of its Marine barracks in Beirut.

30 - Walk upwards toward Casablanca, one of the best restaurants to have brunch in Beirut.

Others do not dare enter areas of Beirut controlled by the Syrian Socialist National Party (SSNP).

Fierce street fighting continued Thursday in Beirut, as well as in the Bekaa Valley, shutting down the airport, seaport and roads.

II. Israel's continuing to pound South Beirut from the air, at least 15 people dead in today's attacks.

Ever since the bombing of the American embassy in Beirut in 1983, security has been the overarching concern when designing new embassies.

Massive explosions shook Beirut and smoke hovered over neighborhoods known to be Hezbollah strongholds in the city.

As the country is small, no distances are great and you can reach almost any place from Beirut by road within a few hours.

Life is going on as normal in Beirut, although a bit quieter than usual.

Gemayel's father Amin, a former Lebanese president, urged restraint as protesters took to the streets in parts of Beirut.

Born in Beirut to an English mother and a father of Hawaiian and Chinese descent, he's a citizen of the world.

8 p. m. - Back in Beirut, head to Barometre in Hamra, a favorite of leftist intellectuals as well as those who love dancing to Arab tunes.

Reported that the release of the seven have been sent to the Estonian tourists Beirut, Lebanon.

A seaside workout on his Arabian mount is as invigorating as Beirut's recovering skyline for riding teacher Naji Rachid, at left.

Eight CIA employees were among those killed in a bombing of the U. S. Embassy in Beirut in 1983.

Hezbollah says at least 1 student has been killed in clashes at a Beirut university.

And tomorrow when I will see the bridge linking my home town of Saida to Beirut, I will only say from the bottom of my heart: Enough!

But Khaled El Ekhetyar, a Syrian activist based in Beirut, was able to contact some residents in Daraa Saturday.

Bordering the Mediterranean, Beirut will be inundated during the tidal sloshing that occurs during the hour of the shift.

But what would Beirut be if it followed their example and became mono-religious and monocultural?

The concentration of dental offices in and around Beirut explains disharmonies of the sanitary map.

The U. S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, was almost totally destroyed by a car-bomb explosion that killed 63 people, including 17 Americans.

Yet as the news from Baghdad, Beirut, Karachi and Annapolis often reminds voters, the next president will have no time to learn on the job.

Bahrain, which usurped Beirut as the region's financial hub in the 1980s, had been left trailing by Dubai.

But cars and trucks had been using a makeshift crossing to get from Tyre to Beirut and back.

Hala Droubi contributed reporting from Beirut, and an employee of The New York Times from Aleppo and Damascus, Syria.

Dressed in traditional Islamic abayas, two women search for a place to picnic near Beirut, Lebanon's famous Pigeon Rocks in 2005.

A few hours later, choppering into Beirut, Christopher asked for some paper.

It triggered the huge demonstrations that brought together hundreds of thousands of people in Beirut with one single demand: Syria, out.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah held talks with Lebanese President Michel Suleiman in Beirut, Friday.

Hwaida Saad contributed reporting from Beirut, and an employee of The New York Times from Damascus, Syria.

Beirut: a place or situation characterized by ongoing , widespread, highly destructive strife.

Massive explosions shook Beirut , and smoke covered over Hezbollah's strongholds in the city's southern districts.

Terry Anderson, chief Middle East correspondent for The Associated Press, was abducted in Beirut.

BEIRUT -- The tragic assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto will engulf Pakistan in grief and turmoil.

The list put together by Rafiq al-Hariri's son and political heir, Saad, steamrollered the Beirut elections, taking every single seat.

Israel also launched a new wave of rocket attacks at the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital Beirut.

Syria has agreed to extend the Arab League monitoring mission to Syria by another month. Jim Muir reports from neighboring Beirut.

In Beirut, festive gunfire broke out in some neighborhoods.

Yesterday, after the intelligence leaders funeral protesters fought with security forces in Beirut.

Israeli air strikes also repeatedly struck the predominately Shiite suburbs of southern Beirut.

Nabil Shehadi, pastor at All Saints Church in Beirut, says religious figures have more clout in the Middle East than in the West.

Other protesters cut the main highway leading to Syria and the coastal road between Beirut and Sidon in the south.

ANERA is coordinating overall relief efforts with Lebanon's High Relief Committee in Beirut, Davies said.

A weak government in Beirut faces a presidential election in September, creating a political stalemate in the interim.

Alan Cowell reported from London and Hania Mourtada from Beirut, Lebanon. Reporting was contributed by Isabel Kershner from Jerusalem.

A 1984 attempt to rescue a kidnapped CIA station chief failed in Beirut.

The hot meals program currently is focused on refugees who have sought shelter in schools in the Metn area north of Beirut, Davies said.

David D. Kirkpatrick contributed reporting from Beirut, Lebanon.

Oil money pays for the bombs going off from Baghdad to Beirut, and the bombast of dictators from Caracas to Tehran.

During a visit to war-battered areas of southern Beirut on Monday, Annan was heckled by Hezbollah supporters.

My family told me over the telephone that they are completely cut off from Beirut.

In other news, a British airline says it will break Israel's air blockade of Lebanon later today by flying directly into Beirut.

Palestinian refugees murdered in Beirut , Lebanon .

I studied and trained as an agricultural engineer at the American University of Beirut.

As artists' centres such as Beirut and Tehran have suffered political and economic upheavals, Dubai has ended up the beneficiary.

Israeli jets Friday struck several areas in southern Lebanon, near Beirut and the eastern Bekaa Valley.

Most of the attacks have concentrated on Hizbullah's strongholds in the Shia suburbs of Beirut and in the south.

Syrian troops were seen leaving several mountains positions till the capital Beirut that they've occupied for 20 years.

Drivers on the roads into Lebanon talk of clients going from their bank in Damascus straight to one in Beirut, carrying large bags.

My mother's plane circled Beirut airport for an hour while Israel bombed Beirut in 1996.

She relentlessly tracks them down to their abodes of exile in Abu Dhabi, Amman, Beirut, Damascus and London.

After the chaos of my previous stop-off point, Beirut, it seemed a haven of calm.

Communication issues were central to the complaints in Beirut last week.

Tourists relax in a nargile (hookah, shisha) den in Beirut.

In Beirut, Paul Salem is a policy analyst directing the Carnegie Middle East Center.

His father, the late prime minister Rafik Hariri, was killed in a massive 2005 bombing in Beirut.

A young Lebanese girl flies her kite during a festival on a beach in Beirut.

Millions of Lebanese poured into Beirut's Martyrs' Square on March 14 to demand the end of Syrian occupation.

The Zenobians, for instance, are known to fight fierce matches with the club team from Beirut, the Phoenicians .

Leaders of Syria, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon Hold Symbolic Beirut Summit.

Strolling along the Corniche in Beirut.

Owen Bennett-Jones sent this report from Beirut in neighbouring Lebanon.

The same Iran that trained the Hezbollah bombers who killed 241 of my comrades on that October morning in Beirut.

A Lebanese leftist activist holds up bread during a demonstration in Beirut.

After her meetings in Beirut, Rice will return to Cyprus and fly, as announced, to Israel.

I need to apply for a visa in Beirut , Lebanon not in USA.

The core of Beirut's old downtown was tastefully rebuilt in the 1990s, but long remained a sterile island ringed by empty lots.

This culminated in an invasion of central Beirut in May 2008 by Hizbullah gunmen that forced March 14th to accept a power-sharing deal.

While most bars and restaurants have addresses, Beirut is a maze of twisting side streets, many of them unmarked.

Maha Kassem is the principal of the Green Space School, an elementary school in Beirut.

Such fears recently prompted a sudden bustle of diplomacy in Beirut.

Perhaps this is why Beirut has grown to be the most liberated and hedonistic city in the Arab world.

Lebanese Muslims watch a soccer match in a neighbourhood hit by recent clashes in central Beirut May 19, 2008.

Jim Muir sent this report from Beirut in neighbouring Lebanon.

The killing has set off anti-Syrian demonstrations in Beirut.

"It's truly like Dubai, " says a Libyan businessman who has recently come back after living in Beirut, with perhaps a touch of hyperbole.

When night comes, the lights to the border on the Beirut-Damascus road are now wormers all out.

using a makeshift crossing to get from Tyre to Beirut and back.

The delegation is authorized to appoint an agent in Beirut.

Beirut, Lebanon, October 22, 2008--Lebanese men pull their belongings from floodwaters outside their home.

Nadim Houry is the director of Human Rights Watch's Beirut office.

Now after applying the same 24 to a photo of Beirut at war, the bloggers have 25 another victim.

Even pricey New York doesn't look so expensive when compared with the likes of Paris, Oslo and even Beirut.

Though Lebanon has remained politically volatilein the 20 years since its civil war, Beirut has regained much of itsprewar luster.

There is also a small Israelite population, traditionally centered in Beirut.

Christians to Beirut and the Alawites to the coffin.

Beirut's acting governor, Naseef Kaloush told reporters that all systems were go in the capital when polling begins Sunday.

Pilot in Beirut crash made 'fast and strange turn'.

It was 1964, and my parents and I had moved to Beirut from Liberia. I was starting to learn English in school.

Which flight gets me to Beirut by 7 p. m. ?

The situation in Beirut's southern suburbs and Southern Lebanon is bad, but not atrocious.

So, off to the Lebanese capital Beirut we went.

Beginning in the 1970s, the agency carried out assassinations in Beirut, Lebanon; Rome; Athens and many other cities.

American University of Beirut Professor Hillal Khashem says he does not believe the Syrian conflict will explode into Lebanon.

A newsflash from Beirut says they've been shot.

PROLONGED bursts of gunfire clattered across Beirut, the Lebanese capital, on one recent night, setting nerves ajangle.

He died on Sunday in a Beirut hospital aged 74.

Jim Muir reports from Beirut.

Full-on gun battles in west Beirut.

Last Friday, a car bomb went off in the Lebanese capital of Beirut.

'Each and every Arab leader needs to know that he is not God, ' said Nicolas Semaan, a 43-year-old senior manager in Beirut.

Vice President Biden is the highest-level U. S. official to visit Beirut since 1983 .

Israeli forces are pounding Beirut for the first time in nearly two days.

Children look at Christmas decoration in Sin El Fil, northeast of Beirut December 21, 2010.

I am a 21 year old Lebanese studying at the American University in Beirut.

They live south of Beirut, and they could see the Israeli jets bomb the airport runway.

BEIRUT, Jan. 12 (Xinhua Pan Liwen Ren Ke) 11 Lebanon, the evening of 12 cabinet members resigned.

Those of us trying to cover the story from nearby Beirut had little more to work with than hearsay, and

They expect others to "deferred" , and Tokyo, Hong Kong, Sao Paulo or Beirut were no different.

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Beirut, Lebanon: A laser beam points in the direction of Mecca from a minaret of Mohammed al-Amin mosque

Civic Welfare League of the American University, Beirut;

Foreign counselor had the personal experience on "Death Travel" in Beirut

CGFPI; Consultative Group on Industrial Estates and Industrial Areas in Arab Countries of the Middle East-Beirut;

Beirut was a large city even at the turn of the century

Luxury Condominium Towers, Beirut, Lebanon

United Nations Coordinating Committee in Beirut;

Officer-in-charge of the Observer Group Beirut;

Last two Beirut hostages to go free

Beirut - 50th Beirut Arab International Book Fair

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Historic Site in High Spirit: Block 94 Citadel Square in Beirut

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Rice in surprise Beirut visit

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