beirut. but me, i came here to explore a beautiful but fragile city and i came right here, to the physical, mental and symbolic border between east and west during the civil war, the former green line. my journey in beirut starts here. - where does one even begin to discuss the urban challenges facing the ancient city of beirut? even though the civil war ended nearly 30 years ago, its repercussions have left permanent scars on the city. the bloody conflict that plagued lebanon from 1975 to 1990 killed some 145,000 people, severely injured more than 100 000 and displaced over a million. it essentially brought the country to its knees. the power struggles that led to the war are deeply rooted in complex and ever-changing alliances. it's not simply a sectarian conflict. regardless of the cause, citizens were held hostage as bombings and bullet fromnipers wreaked havoc across lebanon. beirut took centre stage, acting as a dividing line between muslims and christians. even though the city was able to rise up and re-establish itself as a thriving capital, it's difficult to say how long peace will last. many of the people linked to the civil war

it's the division of beirut into 2 sectors. east and west. beta worked . ah, philosophy, stuff, welsh, on the, on our shock for young old will have flogged me from. ah, 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 to ah ah ah, fe route, once a jewel in the mediterranean, but then torn apart by war. this is the sea front 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 wolf still pattered by the scars of wool, a grotesque witness to the years of separation, killing, and destruction. ah, my name is tom young, i'm a painter and architectural activist from england. and i've lived in by route for about 8 years. i'm particularly inspired by the memories and the feelings, the emotions that are embedded in th

it's the division of beirut through the green line, into 2 sectors, east and west beta. and these partition remained over the course of the 2 following decades. and it passed by d all it ain. 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 demme will be reported on several overseas was for british commercial broadcaster i tv for and was one of the 1st foreign journalists to enter the holiday inn and document the aftermath of the fighting there. smouldering ruins of what had been this very popular resort hotel. and he looked at in thought. this is what we do to one another. as a hotel. and now it's a shelf total shell. light bulbs hanging down off of the off of the wall war wires. chairs smashed up a piano that was in there which somehow it's, it's more or less survived. the chandeliers, all like this, broken, this sort of looking a bizarrely ah, like gargoyles staring down at what humanity had done to itself below the vision, it will not be surprising. bishop but it

and muslim west the former times correspondent robert fisk decided to base himself permanently in beirut in 1976. so when i came to barrett, i already knew the city, but i knew it before. when i went downtown here, i could not believe they the extraordinary destruction. i mean it takes it, you can destroy a city very quickly. it's an awful long time to rebuild it. mm i occasionally went to the commodore with a piece draft just to have lunch, sometimes of me, other journalists, but i didn't stay there. i didn't like it very much when i, i thought it was another city hotel with extraordinary high prices. the commodore hotel was safe and so you could be there. and it was quite bizarre, really. you could be in a civil safe enclave. and then you went out into a very grave civil war. ah, under ye sickness, owls management, the bay root commodore became a global center for news and information or use it as i was a young man. and he seemed to have an extraordinary, uncanny ability to know what journalists wanted. and he realised quickly and brilliantly that the journalists would need, 1st of all

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