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My chapter on David Saad, Lebanon’s last Jewish Olympian, is finally out! Published in the Routledge Handbook of Sports in the Middle East ( @Danyel_Reiche & Paul Michael Brannagan) it narrates the political hurdles David overcame to represent 🇱🇧 at the 1976 Summer Olympics.

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@MichaelMatteoRo This isn’t even debatable

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@PopCrave @etnow Anything to bag those Met Gala tickets, huh?

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@nytimes I wonder where they got this idea from 🤔

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@PopCulture2000s The scene right after this

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@PopCrave Looks like he’s chuckling

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@PopCrave Gwyneth

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@PopCrave I mean this set the tone for the next 15 years worth of television

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Population density of Lebanon. Visualized by Eddy Costantine.

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@aundrearunway That’s not good for your neck

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Hamra street, Beirut (1981).

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Window styles of Beirut’s houses: 1st row: Triple arch 2d row: Horseshoe arch 3rd row: Ogee arch 4th row: Palladian window 5th row: Segmental & 3-pointed arch Categorized by Robert Saliba.

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@huntychan OMG same I was like why is Kelly Clarkson testifying on the hill?

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Tourist Map of Lebanon found in a 1960 guidebook

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@PopCrave I’m worried about Aunt Wendy 😢

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Someone’s holding a magnifying glass over Beirut

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Lebanese supermarkets began pricing goods in dollars today - in a country where only 13% of the population has access to foreign currency.

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Football superstar Pelé on AUB campus, April 8, 1975. Six days before the Lebanese Civil War broke out. Here’s a quick thread🧵on his visit to Lebanon (1/5)

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Trash piling up, Ferraris getting delivered - just another normal day in Lebanon 🤷🏻‍♂️

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@destinyschild Everyone chill, it’s recycled!

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Forever thankful for their friendship 😭 Happy Thanksgiving!

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@PopCrave Dorit’s so chic moment with Jamie Lee Curtis

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@FuckCarsReddit policy failure. plus not wheel chair accessible at all

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Obsessed with this aerial photo of Tyre (Sour) Lebanon taken by Antoine Poidebard in 1935.

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Can someone help date this photo? It’s Collège du Sacré Coeur in Gemmazye, Beirut, but having trouble periodizing it.

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@millesbabies Anything by SWV

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Amid news of asylum seekers being sent to Rwanda, refugees fleeing Ukraine, and the migrants trying to reach Europe by boat, here’s a quick thread on how in 1939 Jewish refugees found shelter in Beirut when other countries refused to accept them (🧵1/8)

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@mattxiv I would not hire her as my lawyer

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Palestinian children playing football in the ruins of Shatila refugee camp, Beirut, Lebanon (1988). 📸 by Nabil Ismail of AFP.

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Just four awards short of an EGOT, but I’m finally an Urban Planner!

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In Beirut, buildings named for St. George abound in the city, most notably St. George’s Bay. It may surprise you to learn that the actual bay named for the Saint once stretched to the Beirut river. A Quick thread on how this saint came to be associated with Beirut (🧵1/8)

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@playbill @BeanieFeldstein @FunnyGirlBway Lea Michelle rn

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A wonderful map of rail links in Lebanon (1930). Reminder, governments over the past 30 years made the conscious decision not to invest in light and heavy rail and we’re paying the price for it today. Shared by @ElenaHaddad from @The_ChainEffect

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Ad for the Murr Tower placed in The Daily Star, April 1975. How many Murr floors can you count?

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BREAKING NEWS: AUB set to open campus in Cyprus by 2023, with launch ceremony next Friday. Here are renderings of what the Paphos campus will look like.

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AUB in 1969 next to Nicely Hall. Still a chill out spot today.

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Aerial photo of Saida, Lebanon (c. 1915). Parts of the Crusader castle visible on the left.

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Beirut: collapse after collapse. 📸 by Issam Abdallah for Reuters

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Defended my thesis today.

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@BelleNoelPhoto Terry O’Neill’s photos of Faye Dunaway

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The cover of @Annahar newspaper Dec. 2-3 1934. The headlines read “New Catastrophe hits Beirut with 30 victims” "The hazardous material warehouse in the port suddenly explodes and collapses on those in it" How was a tragedy of such magnitude forgotten? 🧵(1/4)

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A day after children swam in the fountain in Samir Kassir Square, Beirut officials have decided to drain it. Keep in mind the city has no public pools and it’s public beaches have been illegally privatized by resorts.

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Protest outside the Russian Embassy in Beirut by members of the Ukrainian diaspora in Lebanon

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I think I found a way to fix Lebanon’s finances

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Beirut port silos under construction. Photo published in 1971 by Czechoslovakian engineer Karel Kerhart. Also pictured is Warehouse 12.

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@ME_McCullough Agreed specially if it’s about Byzantine or Ottoman history. Like how many times can you use “Istanbul not Constantinople�� in title???

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The manager of Beirut’s public beach told me that around 600-700 people have arrived there to seek shelter. An appeal has been put out for tent donations. The Beirut municipality has asked people in the streets or public spaces to call a helpline in order to find accommodation.

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Sushi Resturant opens at Riviera Hotel, Beirut (1968).

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What my friends pay for electricity abroad: 🇺🇸 $ 150 🇫🇷 € 50 🇮🇪 € 100 🇨🇦 C$ 80 Meanwhile, ordinary people in Lebanon have to shell out a couple hundred bucks a month for no more than 18 hours of electricity a day or sit in the dark. How does any of this make sense?

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Can anyone help date this image of Tripoli, Lebanon?

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Lebanon (1949) crowds exit Bhamdoun Synagogue after Rosh HaShanah (Jewish New Year) service.

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@femm3bot They can transform an entire industry, but can’t pay minimum wage 🤷🏻‍♂️

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@shutupjoeyy There are seven 7 erogenous zones?

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Rest in Peace Habib Debs. The brainchild behind Al-Masar Al-Akhdar (Green Spine). He did so much to save Lebanon’s built-heritage both in times of peace and war.

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@PopCulture2000s JT was vibing

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Roman mosaics in Beit Mery, Lebanon

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@LukeHearfield Winona Ryder

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After helping Lebanon win the Arab Nations Basketball Championship earlier this year, @youssefkhayat24 will be playing for the Wolverines ( @umichbball ) in the NCAA next season. Congrats Youssef 🙌🏼

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Found another cemetery for Beirut’s old houses selling everything from tiles to bannisters to wooden beams and shutters.

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The old An-Nahar building in the Souks of Beirut (c.1950). @MneimnehSoha 's dad found this great photo.

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The remains of one of Beirut’s two sea castles, torn down in 1890 for the expansion of the port. It no longer borders the sea because it’s now surrounded by reclaimed land.

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. @MneimnehSoha ’s dad found this lovely 1966 photo of Beirut’s Saint Elias and Saint Gregory Cathedral.

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Why is it so hard to walk in Beirut?🚶 Wrote this for all the frustrated pedestrians, runners, joggers, & dog parents in Beirut who can’t walk an inch without worrying about getting hit by a car. With comments from @thebeirutbanyan & @AltanerJ . Enjoy!

Beirut’s main roads were meant to connect the city. Instead, they divided it

BEIRUT — While a recent proposal to split Beirut into two municipalities does not appear to have gained much traction, the capital city has long been physically, if not administratively, divided....

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The amount of smoke coming out of the Beirut port is evoking painful memories of the August 4th Blast. I don’t feel safe.

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For my first byline, I wrote about Lebanon’s diminishing public space, the people fighting to reclaim it, and the debate swirling in last few months over who’s allowed to use it.

Activists in Lebanon are fighting to reclaim dwindling public spaces

In Lebanon, where people are reeling from an economic crisis and desperate to breathe, open spaces are often shuttered or reserved for those who can pay.

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@sbstryker First friend of the housewives to win an Oscar*

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Palestinian man harvests oranges in South Lebanon, 1982. 📸 by Steve McCurry (Magnum Photos) best known for his 1984 portrait of Sharbat Gula, titled 'Afghan Girl.'

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Names of the victims of the Beirut Blast being read out.

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The Beirut Municipality building (c. 1935) designed by Youssef Aftimous

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Today’s encounter with a Lebanese cab 🚕 Me: Mar Mikhael please Driver: the Christian on or the Shia one? Me: the one where everyone drinks Driver: so the Christian one Me: I guess 🤷🏻‍♂️

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Safra Bank headquarters on Allenby Street in Beirut, 1929.

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Beirut’s Fouad Chehab Road and Ring (1973)

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A sketch by Robert Saliba illustrating the evolution of Beirut's residential architecture.

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Karantina, Gemmazye, Mar Mikhael, Bourj Hammoud and Achrafieh from the sky! Taken by Antoine Poidebard in 1939

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I was next to the windows and didn’t know if they were going to shatter in my face. So many people are telling me that the earthquake brought back awful memories from the Aug. 4 Beirut blast.

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@queensofbravo Telling my kids that was Mount Rushmore

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St. George Syriac Church nestled in-between the Beirut Digital District. Photo by Mohammad Tohme

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We all remember Salwa, the 3 year old girl who learned to cope with the bombing in Syria by laughing it off. Her father just told me that they lost their home Antakya after Monday’s earthquake, and are finding difficulty in locating shelter. If anyone can help, please dm me now.

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Here’s a quick thread about the Safra bank, the precursor to the Brazilian banking giant, Banco Safra, which has its origins here in Beirut. Founded by Jacob Safra after he moved to the city from Aleppo in 1914 the bank specialized in FX, gold, and trade. (🧵1/6)

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Safra Bank headquarters on Allenby Street in Beirut, 1929.

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On December 1st, 1934, an explosion at the Port of Beirut killed 20 people and injured 14 others. In today’s edition of @lorienttoday , I piece together the story of this tragic event to see why it was forgotten.

The forgotten explosion: Reconstructing the 1934 Beirut port blast

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Breaking news: 4.2 magnitude earthquake hits Lebanon near city of Hermel along the Syrian border per Marleine Brax, Head of Lebanon’s National Center for Geophysics. Shaking felt across the country.

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Photo of Holocaust survivor Jacques Schweitzer in Beirut (Manara) while serving in the Free French Naval Forces in 1944.

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Spiritual Anthem of Ukraine being played outside of Russian Embassy in Beirut by Ukrainian diaspora residing in Lebanon

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@PopBase Pay your taxes lady

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- @sursockmuseum in a 1968 ad for Jaguar

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The fact that many of us didn’t know if this was a natural disaster or man-made it’s just so fucked up.

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I was next to the windows and didn’t know if they were going to shatter in my face. So many people are telling me that the earthquake brought back awful memories from the Aug. 4 Beirut blast.

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@PopCrave Does he know who Addison Rae is?

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A reported 4.7 magnitude earthquake hit Lebanon and the Levant region moments agao. The the last most destructive earthquake to hit the country was in 1956 and was 5.6 degrees on the Richter scale.

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Barbara Walters watches Yasser Arafat sign a keffiyeh in Beirut (1977). Walters wanted to keep it as memento from the interview, but days later her housekeeper accidentally put it in the wash,rubbing all the ink out.

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Really amazing photos of the southern part of Beirut port silos being built in the early 1970s that Akram Zaatari found!

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After 2 years of hard work I'm so happy to see the @BeirutUrbanLab 's research on Post-Blast Karantina finally published! Led by Howayda Al-Harithy, the reports include research & analysis on 5 transversal issues an Urban Recovery Strategy & 30 action plans

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Riad Salameh's Red Notice is now up on @Interpol 's website. Salameh has been Lebanon's central bank governor since 1993.

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The Zawiya of Ibn Arraq in the Souks of Beirut (c. 1990s). Photo by Howayda Al-Harithy.

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AUB's Department of Architecture and Design How it started: How it's going:

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Ever wonder about the origins Beirut’s famous doudou shot? @lorienttoday went bar-hopping to exhume the mysterious origins of the drink 🥛

The drunken, rumored history of Beirut’s famed doudou shot

BEIRUT — A splash of lemon, a dash of Tabasco, chilled vodka, and an olive to top it off.Though mixed in different proportions depending on the bar, these are the long-established ingredients of...

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How Dunkin’ Donuts is coping with Lebanon’s two timezones 😅

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In the wake of the earthquake, many Tripoli residents have decided to leave their homes, fearing collapse, with some deciding to sleep near the city’s park. 🎥 by @LOrientLeJour ’s North Lebanon correspondent.

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There is literally nothing wrong with this. I wish people would be more outraged about how most public spaces are fenced off or privatized and kids have no where to play except for parking lots.

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“ ساحة سمير قصير تتحوّل لبحيرة فوضى! التقطت كاميرا "هنا لبنان" مشهداً لمجموعة من الأطفال من التابعية السورية وهم يقفزون ويسبحون في البركة وسط ساحة سمير قصير” و مش بس هيك وعم بشِّك 😂

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Did anyone else feel that? I can still feel the ground shaking!

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Stranded at sea & no one willing to accept them 2 ships carrying 1250 Jewish refugees find safety in Beirut's Quarantine on the eve of WWII. For #HolocaustRemembranceDay the paywall is removed on my article so everyone can read about this harrowing journey

How Jewish refugees fleeing the Nazis found shelter in Beirut

BEIRUT — As Lebanon has spiraled into crisis over the past three years, an increasing number of people have departed by sea, land and air in search of refuge in Europe, sometimes with tragic...

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