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    Beirut I (Arabic: دائرة بيروت الأولى) is an electoral district in Lebanon. The district elects eight members of the Lebanese National Assembly – three...
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    4 August 2020, a large amount of ammonium nitrate stored at the Port of Beirut in the capital city of Lebanon exploded, causing at least 218 deaths, 7...
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    Beirut (/beɪˈruːt/ bay-ROOT; Arabic: بيروت, romanized: Bayrūt) is the capital and largest city of Lebanon. As of 2014[update], Greater Beirut has a population...
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    Ras Beirut (Arabic: رأس بيروت, lit. 'tip of Beirut') is an upscale residential neighborhood in Beirut, Lebanon. It has a mixed population of Christians...
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    economic crisis aggravated by the 2020 explosions that hit the Port of Beirut and faced large-scale demonstrations against the political class. Hezbollah...
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  • Neemat Frem, Chamel Roukoz and Michel Moawad left the bloc. After the 2020 Beirut explosion, Michel Daher left the bloc. In April 2021, Elie Ferzli left the...
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    Copts) seat was now in Beirut I, which had the largest gathering of Minorities voters. Jewish voters were mainly found in Beirut II, where they constituted...
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  • Beirut I Love You is a Lebanese television/web-series which aired on the Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation (LBC). The series stars Mounia Akl and Cyril...
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    London. Israel blamed the PLO and three days later invaded Lebanon. West Beirut was besieged for seven weeks before the PLO acceded to a new agreement for...
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    Voting to elect eight members of the Lebanese parliament took place in the Beirut I district (one of two electoral districts in the city) on 15 May 2022, part...
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  • 2005 when different parties called for a mass demonstration in downtown Beirut in response to the Cedar Revolution. The demonstration thanked Syria for...
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    During the 1982 Lebanon War, the city of Beirut was besieged by Israel following the breakdown of the ceasefire that had been imposed by the United Nations...
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    Paleolithic through the Neolithic to the Bronze Age. Beirut I (Minet el-Hosn) was listed as "the town of Beirut" (French: Beyrouth ville) by Louis Burkhalter...
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    On October 23, 1983, two truck bombs were detonated at buildings in Beirut, Lebanon, housing American and French service members of the Multinational Force...
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    Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport (Arabic: مطار رفيق الحريري الدولي بيروت, French: Aéroport international de Beyrouth - Rafic Hariri, previously...
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    History and Evolution of Public Spaces in Beirut Central District. Solidere. Beirut. Saliba, Robert (2004). Beirut City Center Recovery: The Foch-Allenby...
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  • Sehnaoui, fielded their list under the label "Beirut I". Michelle Tueni fielded a third list, "We Are Beirut", being joined by incumbent Future MP Serge...
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    Beirut is an American band that was originally the solo musical project of Zach Condon. Beirut's music combines elements of indie rock and world music...
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  • (PLO) and Rejectionist Front Palestinian guerrilla factions. Christian East Beirut was ringed by heavily fortified Palestinian camps from which kidnappings...
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    The Vilayet of Beirut (Ottoman Turkish: ولايت بيروت, romanized: Vilâyet-i Beyrut; Arabic: ولاية بيروت) was a first-level administrative division (vilayet)...
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    populations were Beirut I 10,063 voters (11.0% of the registered voters in the electoral district, overwhelmingly Syriac Catholics), Beirut III 8,181 voters...
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    Embassy bombing was a suicide bombing on the Embassy of the United States in Beirut, Lebanon, that killed 32 Lebanese, 17 Americans, and 14 visitors and passers-by...
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  • Isabella I of Jerusalem. Before he was 20, he was appointed constable of Jerusalem, and a few years later became Lord of Beirut. John rebuilt Beirut after...
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    Caliphate to the Umayyads and ʿAbbāsids. Translated by Razia Ali. London and Beirut: I. B. Tauris and Centre for Arab Unity Studies. ISBN 978-1-84885-060-6....
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    Gemayel's son Samy Gemayel, and Nadim Gemayel with 4,096 votes in the new Beirut I district. Nadim Gemayel joined the Lebanese Forces-led list, together with...
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    joint list for Beirut I of the Free Patriotic Movement, Tashnaq and the Hunchaks was conceived supported by the Future Movement. In Bekaa I FPM, Future,...
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    Paula Yacoubian (category Politicians from Beirut)
    Parliamentary Elections, running for the Armenian Orthodox seat in the Beirut I constituency. She was officially announced as a winner following the elections...
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    (3/3) Tripoli (8/8) Koura (3/3) Bcharreh (2/2) Batroun (2/2) Beirut 1 (5/5) Beirut 2 (2/4) Beirut 3 (10/10) Aley (4/5) Jumblatt left an empty seat for Talal...
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    party, Jean Talozian, also managed to wain a seat with 4,043 votes in Beirut I with Nadim. Throughout the 1975 Civil War, the Phalange Party was the most...
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    of Beirut, Lebanon. Like the Martyr's Square in Damascus, it is named after the 6 May 1916 executions ordered by Djemal Pasha during World War I. In...
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