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i'll be exploring the contributions made by scholars during the medieval period in the field of astronomy. copernicus owes this day to these medieval astronomers from the golden age. actually in many ways with the computer you can use it to find the time you could navigate science in a golden age with jim and sally on jazz. either the control the holiday inn and you control the, the region around. and that's why the such a bloody battle important thing, if you are walking around and they root was not to be in the line of fire from the holiday and the bottle of all the day in completed the division of the root

into 2 sectors east and west base, the philosopher stuff for bellis and the shop. so you can plug me from the most powerful building in the city for me is the holiday yet more hotels are buildings that function as normal hotels but often in the context of real instability. ah ah ah ah, a route, once a jewel in the mediterranean,

but been torn upon by war. this is the seafront of the lebanese capital today, around 3 decades after the end of the civil war. the devastating conflict lasted for 15 years. this street was the green line, dividing bay route into east and west. dominating the front line was this concrete skeleton. what was once the holiday inn? it's was still pattered by the scars of war. a grotesque witness to the years of separation, killing, and destruction. ah, ah, my name is tom young, i'm a painter and architectural activist from england. and i've lived in beirut. so

about 8 years i'm particularly inspired by the memories and feelings, the emotions that embedded in the walls of the buildings and bearing the most powerful building in the city for me is the holiday is so famous. and so i clinic, it's like a joint tune which remains in the center of the city like an unresolved scar. the holiday inn is still a stark reminder of wounds that have yet to heal, even today. oh, the, the 13th of april, 1975 was the official start date of the violence. but this was

a proxy conflict fort during the cold war era on one side, lebanese right wing parties, backed by the united states, aiming to expel armed palestinian groups from lebanon. on the other left wing parties allied with the pillow and backed by the soviet union, who saw the right wing christians as an extension of israeli and american influence in lebanon. only 2 weeks off to be rude to erupt to the south vietnamese capital saigon fell to the communists, ending over 19 years of conflict in viet nam televisions. first war now came lebanon, armies of reporters and war, photographers moved from southeast asia to the middle east. and began to occupy bay

route hotel rooms filled up with a news crew. and a new chapter of the cold war began i, most of the correspondence, tv crews and photographers checked into this hotel, the commodore a safe haven in the west of the city in every day. they would set off from here for downtown bay route for the main hotel district, where the holiday inn was the front line in the holiday inn was a war hotel in the sense that it was part of an urban battle. a battle between 2 factions of the strategic heights, but it wasn't a price to a tail. so none of the jury was covering the warning. bitter stayed in the holiday and the holiday in became one of the 1st significant physical manifestations of the, of the conflict. my name is kenneth morrison and professor viewed

a p and history. one of my key research interests is in the history of war. hotel war hotels are buildings that function as normal hotels, but often in the context of real instability. so i look at numerous hotels. saudi was holiday in beta. it's commodore but also the hotel you'd open belfast for example, the lead your palace in kasey, a cyprus, all of these hotels have continued to function throughout this period of instability. some are in the real midst of an urban conflict. a war hotel emerges out of a history where journalists over a long period before was start of somehow find it a congenial place to be a watering hole convenient. near the center of activity in the city where the politics happens, where the culture happens, where you meet people, the hotels which made a route to the tourist center of the middle east. i'm john,

who will be and i've long been a reporter reporting more over the world. and therefore, i've been in wars and most memorable amongst these was the experience of reporting from the lebanese civil war in the 1900 seventy's. this was once the richest part of the richest city in the middle east. i 1st went to lebanon in 1972, as a young reporter. my very 1st article from magazine here called the new statesman in which i effectively said, this place is waiting to blow. all it needs is a spark because of the complexity of this very small country, surrounded by competing nations, ah, from the 1950 to the early seventy's. they route was a magnet for the international pleasure seeking a lead they routes. hotel district was at the heart of its luxury

tourism economy making its favor, jet set destination. the one we speak about bay roots, golden age. as the switzerland of the middle east. we are actually talking about an area, the hotel district, that is the very specific product of a precise geopolitical project. my name is sort of free, nathan, i'm a political geographer voice based at the university of birmingham. i am interested in hotels and urban conflict. holiday inn came quite late in the day. 1974. it was opened. it came quite late in the day into this or tell district which was considered a playground for celebrities and politicians and diplomats and

spies. the hotel district started life in the 1920s when the st. george opened for 4 decades. it was one of the most prestigious hotels on the mediterranean. during the cold war, in the 19 fifties and sixties, the bar of the st. george was described as a revolving door of information. the british double agent can fill, be with irregular. he operated under cover as a foreign journalist. and on the 30th of january, 1963 was spotted for the last time at the bar in the st. george. before disappearing in beirut, and reappearing a few months later in moscow in more smart hotels sprang up, including the phoenician, even more luxurious than the saint george. but when the holiday inn arrived in

1974, it was not only the tallest, but also the last to open before the civil war broke out. i remember the experience of the phoenician and i went to the holiday in different scales of hotel, but both of them pretty luxurious hotels. the phoenician was very grand indeed. the holiday inn was a holiday and but a very up market holiday and said it was plenty of chrome, plenty of silver, plenty of gold colored drapes. it was done very much in the style that the arab world likes. morning, can you see denise san jose unassigned. how to sell to have freedom. uh huh. lee. well, i mean comes our move over there to had a bill. eli binnie, semi, i'm sorry on the invoice, timothy mitchell in the the race fund or lily they in the middle of the shuttle

is easy. will name mom or funded g buddy the fair our our matter about missed our land the see can hailey, how is it hello and to show him and be there to have been and he can fema s. i be the lead, be elaborately bridge, or can i but as of her daughter and her daughter theatre bus, and i can let you know that can tamara because i li, who will let mr. shady, by the way to him. i am at home. you can nominate, i will never levied. shall have been if so i can't and i'm a hold. then i will not approve the creation of a sealant to see that even on our, on our b b. they all just told me young wanted to get inside the building today. but to do that, he had to get permission, not only from the owners, but from the lebanese army, which still controls it as

a strategically sensitive location. young wanted to indulge his passion painting. i finally got the chance to go inside and my, my, my immediate feeling was one of just overwhelming emotion. i felt sad. i felt, i felt horror, but i felt amazing. ah, when i started my project for the holiday inn. and so i started painting it from the outside from many viewpoint. and then i discovered that the parents of a very good friend of mine, i had that still refer her parents, sammy,

and from her dad. actually, not only live next to the holiday inn and have a fantastic view of it from the balcony. and that possibly one of the very few people in lebanon, who had the wedding reception dinner in the holiday in sammy had those at home for 40 and then i wasn't let what's me out about surveying. can it's, you know, i've had been really all holiday and i need an idea on, i'm a half lee. i shut off and i bought my gentlemen as though is that when i was not the stumble was half leak in it half the hallway on the last 2nd. what would that kid had working for me as i was in tone? my head with 2 guns, very simple mckenna, mazda,

and had that had been on this when she shot on the machine in, was it going to this on audio ah, holly pan, about russia national minimum and has an additional idea on the ship that, that can have that comes in pending and not getting the muscles in and can min oh it initially. yeah. and you can and when, when i said, remember only the n y, that even a c, d could have been the knew how to min. so we hold it in me, seeing a building from a few understand its context within the city and what it must have meant in the civil war. i use this very bright red, which expresses this,

the blood that's been spelled, the violence and the fire and the hate and the anger. and every time i flash the, the paints, it's a way of going through that anger and that violence, and honoring that. and i also raise it as if that itself is the erasure of memory. the, when the civil war started in april 975, the p a low when the lebanese national movement for the maronite christian for lunch party, the violence was triggered by the so called, buff incident on the 13th of april. when fighters from the for lunch party opened fire on the bus, carrying palestinians as it drove through that stronghold of a romani, 26 palestinians were killed and dozens wounded, unleashing what became a living hell on the streets of the roof,

which spread rapidly throughout lebanon. there was street fighting and shilling. there was snipers and kidnapping. unstick terry and massacres across the religious divide. the, the christian felon just militias were based in east bay route, but gradually took control of the main downtown streets and the west is the city. the strategic port and the hotel district, including the saint george the phoenician, the hilton, and the holiday inn. on the 24th of october, 1975 left wing mosley militias and palestinian armed groups under the umbrella of the national movement, launched a massive offensive to try and regain control of the hotel district which straddled east and west with the battle of the hotels. 975-1976 was,

was simply a battle for control the strategic heights. he who control the strategic heights could essentially dictate terms. so controlling these buildings in the hotel district, the hide ice buildings became extremely important for the militias. i had the monarchy can be de la soul for what he was telling elephant son george had heard an old lady. well, well, but that when ours had been a son, george will be nice. the munition fighters started moving upwards and they started going on top of towers. one ease bores young more and other one is holiday in a few days in to the battle of the hotels,

the guests and completely abandoned the entire district and evacuated to the neighboring mediterranean island of cyprus. soon after the upper floors of the holiday inn was set on fire by intensive shilling. the fighting on the ground spread into what was called sector for weather, for lunches had begun using the hilton of the 9th of 8th in the days leading up to the start of the civil war. the bay roots hilton had been preparing for its grand opening. but that never took place. instead, militias, on both sides checked in before any v, i p, guessed this rare archive video shows the moment when left wing fighters seized the lobby of the hilton. after the free lunches had withdrawn to their

positions in the holiday in the important thing, if you were walking around in beirut was not to be in the line of fire from the holiday. and yes, my name is tim. well, and i was the bbc's middle east correspondence in beirut, in the seventy's, eighty's and ninety's. i was in beirut during the much of the lebanese civil war. i remember once trying to get down to the holiday inn to try and make some sort of effort get into it to interview the finances. and just as i was getting to the point in an area code, i mariah i see where you would come right round the corner into the face of the hotel gunfire started and i scuttled back. there was a dead body lying up the streets. it was all rather sinister. i fled back to the hotel. i'm afraid it wasn't one of my brave a days. but did some people did get across to the holiday inn? on, on the 20th of march, 1976,

the so called lebanese and palestinian joined forces launched their strongest attack against the philander in the hotel district. their aim was to control keep position. but especially the highly strategic holiday in control of holiday in. and you controller the region around, so you, you took the holiday in if you possibly could. and that's why the system a bloody battle. the holiday inn and it's surrounds, blames for 3 days as opposing militias by the control. no one knew which way the fighting was going. not even the lebanese and foreign journalists who reported on the national movement 1st incursion into the hotel lobby. fair to earlier. what are the thorn i'mma listened

behind. last effort now my own foot man and i can i'm in short. i'm going to be on i'm awake in the a small group of christian for lunches. she managed to hide inside the hotel, killed a senior national movement commander before making their way up to the top on the 24th floor. by the phone. the hey. a lot of stuff. for bellis and the shop for you and i will. i can plug it in. the to start with saudi is our fee botkin. i'm not motion for the loan or what i'm a little bit out of our should nanny laugh. wanted to say,

i'd always thought i could always use your mike at the the images of the sniper dropping 24 floors to his death on the street under the militia, celebrating for the cameras, have become symbols of the fall of the holiday in me through what all that happened the room by room floor by floor stairway stair the battle of holiday in completed the division of the route through the green line into 2 sectors, east and west beta. and this partition remained over the course of the following days. and it passed by dionte. no one will ever know how many heroes died here in the holiday in. the battle lasted 3 days and 3 nights and there were no prisoners at the end. jonathan nimble be reported on several overseas was

for british commercial broadcast. the i t v and was one of the 1st foreign journalists to enter the holiday inn and document the aftermath of the fighting their smouldering ruins of what had been this very popular resort hotel. and he looked at him the thought. this is what we do to one another as hotel and now it's a shelf total show light bulbs hanging down off of wall wires. chairs smashed up a piano that was in there somehow. it's was born as survived the chandeliers, all like this. broken this sort of looking bizarre li like gargoyles staring down at what humanity had done to itself below the vision, it will not be surprising vision. but it was surprising that that could happen in beirut. oh

i the green line, of course, in the civil war was a place with flowers and trees grew abundant. and so it was a reference to that. but it's also a way of envisioning some brighter future kind of sense of hope that might spring up in the ruin of the past. i today around 3 decades on from the end of the civil war, the complexity of lebanon's sectarianism and the geo politics of the region means the country and its people are still struggling to recover from its effect. the

majority of the hotel district has been rebuilt. the enormous shell of the holiday in still towers over downtown, awaiting its fate. no more green line for it to look down on today. but the monument to 15 years of struggle continues to attract visitors, historians, artists, and filmmakers. all seeking to understand the events of the seventy's and 18 more than any of the ravaged building, surviving the conflict. it surely deserves the title war hotel. i a reporter's retreat in a brutal civil war. if a commodore hadn't been there,

the israeli invasion would not have been so well reported. the commodore had become a journalist center. you could be in the safe enclave and then you went out into the civil war. i started off leaving this other grand street condo hotel. the next room i was in was underground in a tiny prison, so as a hostage, a route to commodore war hotels. on al jazeera, we town the until i speak, when others don't, ah, we cover all the time with no matter where it takes a police fin. if you guys were my empower in pasha, we tell your story. we are your voice. you knew your neck out here. i am. sorry, i should be about raising prices

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