The Beirut blast leveled historic neighborhoods. Some fear developers may finish the job
Sitting in his reading room, Fadlallah Dagher gestured at a 145-year-old arched window — or what was left of it. At his side lay the remains of the window’s intricate latticework and wood filigree, shattered to pieces by the enormous explosion that “That one second equaled more than 15 years of war,” Dagher said, referring to the 1975-1990 civil war that made the Lebanese capital a byword for destruction. Dagher, a 60-year-old architect, had spent decades restoring his family’s elegant two-story, 4,800-square-foot house that his ...
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