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History. Dr. Rizk Clinic, recently known as LAU Medical Center-Rizk Hospital, was first established by Dr. Toufic Ibrahim Rizk (1892-1983) in 1925 as a private family-owned clinic. In 1953 he selected CIET, a French-Swiss company specialized in hospital construction, to prepare the first building blueprints. In 1954 the first stone of his new ...
The Rafik Hariri University Hospital ( Arabic: مستشفى رفيق الحريري الجامعي, RHUH) – formerly known as Beirut Governmental University Hospital (BGUH) – is the largest Lebanese public hospital, located on the outskirts of southern Beirut. The hospital's main building has a maximal capacity of 544 hospital beds; it ...
Rue Verdun, or Verdun Street, is an upscale commercial and residential street in Beirut, Lebanon. [1] The street, which is a major shopping center and tourist attraction, was named in honor of the Battle of Verdun during World War I. It is officially named Rachid Karami Street, after Lebanon's late Prime Minister who was assassinated during the ...
May 31, 2024 at 3:53 AM. BEIRUT (Reuters) - Five-year-old Adam Afana dreamt of being a police officer "to keep people safe," his uncle said, before losing his father, his siblings and cousins, and ...
The tallest completed building in Lebanon from 2008 until 2014. 6=. Abdel Wahab 618. 152 metres (499 ft) 37. 2017. Beirut. 33°53′21.00″N 35°30′57.00″E.
Displaced. ≈300,000. On 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, 7,000 injuries, and US$ 15 billion in property damage, as well as leaving an estimated 300,000 people homeless. A cargo of 2,750 tonnes of the substance (equivalent to ...
The Carnegie Middle East Center is an independent policy research institute based in Beirut, Lebanon, and part of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. The center's scope of work includes political and economic developments in the Arab world, Turkey and Iran. It includes participation by senior local researchers, visiting experts, and ...
Rue Clemenceau. Rue Clemenceau is a commercial and residential street in Beirut, Lebanon. The street was named in honor of Georges Clemenceau who accepted the post of premier of France in 1917 during World War I. The neighborhood straddling Clemenceau Street was prior to the war one of the most cosmopolitan areas of the city and home to ...