Lebanon’s Lost Vision in the 1960s Oscar Niemeyer’s the Rachid Karami International Fair in Trablous was envisioned as 1 of the region’s largest & boldest projects. A flagship of Lebanon’s modernization. it stands today as an unfinished yet iconic landm...

In the 1960s, Lebanon was planning the largest international exhibition in the region.
An Engineer of the World!
A bold vision!

In the seventies, the war stopped everything.
By 2025, this global architectural masterpiece is later… Waiting …

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In the 1960s, Lebanon was planning the largest international fair in the region.
A world-renowned architect.
A bold vision.
In the 1970s, the war stopped everything.
In 2025, this world-class architectural masterpiece is still… waiting…

Lebanon #OscarNiemeyer #Tripoli #tripolifair #rachidkaraminternationalfair #Lebanese architecture

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Date: August 15

Rachid Karami International Fair-Tripoli UNESCO World Heritage Site

Located in northern Lebanon, the Rachid Karami International Fair was designed by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer between 1962–1967 on a 70-hectare site between Tripoli’s historic center and Al Mina port. Its centerpiece is the Grand Canopy, a vast boomerang-shaped hall (750m x 70m) designed to host international exhibitions, with educational, cultural, and recreational facilities set in landscaped gardens and pools.

Conceived as Lebanon’s flagship modernization project, the fair integrated Brazilian modernist design with local aspirations for post-independence identity. It remains one of the most significant works of 20th-century modern architecture in the Arab Near East.

Although construction halted with the outbreak of the civil war in 1975, most structures still stand. UNESCO recognizes its Outstanding Universal Value, citing its cultural exchange, daring structural solutions, and symbolic role as a gateway to modernity. Today, the site faces urgent conservation challenges due to ageing concrete and war damage, but restoration plans and protective legislation are underway.

https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1702/

Outstanding Universal Value Brief synthesis from UNESCO

The Rachid Karami International Fair-Tripoli has been erected in Tripoli, the second larges...
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Former director of French military intelligence, Christophe Gomart: Breaking the sound barrier was heard in Nasrallah's hideout when broadcasting his live speech. The Israelis may have used technological capabilities to locate the hideout via triangulat...

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الرئيس جوزاف عون في الذكرى لنصرالله: الوفاء للتضحيات لا يكون إلا بوحدة الموقف والتفاف الجميع حول مشروع الدولة الواحدة 🥱

الرئيس جوزاف عون في الذكرى السنوية الأولى لاغتيال السيدين نصرالله وصفي الدين:
- الوفاء للتضحيات لا يكون إلا بوحدة الموقف والتفاف الجميع حول مشروع الدولة الواحدة القوية العادلة
- لتكن هذه الذكرى الأليمة محطة للتلاقي ولترسيخ الإيمان بأن لا خلاص للبنان إلا بدولة واحدة وجيش واحد ومؤسسات دستورية تحمي السيادة وتصون الكرامة

President Joseph Aoun on the first commemoration of the assassination of Sayyid Nasrallah and Sayyid Safieddine:
- Loyalty to the sacrifices can only be achieved through a unified stance and everyone rallying around the project of a single, strong, and just state
- Let this painful anniversary be a moment for convergence and to reinforce the belief that Lebanon’s salvation lies only in one state, one army, and constitutional institutions that protect sovereignty and uphold dignity
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Lebanese front and Lebanese forces Vs Hezbollah

Upon creation:

LF weapons: Hunting weapons and few mid rifles for few months- later to be joined by Christians LAF and to be armed and trained by Israel in late 1976 and ended in 1982 due to political conflicts.

Hezbollah: Funded, trained and armed by Iran in late 70s until now and to be officially created in 1982

Defensive strategy:

LF relied on strategic points including high grounds to secure borders of their region.

Hezbollah relies on tunnels by ambushing the enemy.

Offensive strategy:

LF push an enemy point and secure it to extend their authorial region. Heavy weapons used: Artilleries

Hezbollah: Does not push points, rather relies on defensive strategy by ambushing the enemy and attack enemy territories to increase pressure. Heavy weapons used: Short-Mid range missiles.

Military bases:

LF created more than 100 military bases during the civil war fairly distant from civilians

Hezbollah never used bases, officers and soldiers lives within civilians.

Leadership figures:

Bachir Gemayel : 1976-1982 as LF First Commander, assassinated in 14 September 1982 in an explosion during a meeting in the Kataeb building in Achrafieh

Hassan Nasrallah: 1992-2024 as Secretary General assassinated in 2024 in an underground bunker in Beirut Suburban.

Readers have the right to conclude whatever they want from these facts. Cheers
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The art of recovery: Beirut’s creatives find hope through BERYT. When tragedy struck Beirut on 4 August 2020 impact extended far beyond shattered buildings & lives. The explosion tore through the city’s cultural soul, displacing artists, damaging its ri...

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When tragedy struck Beirut on 4 August 2020, the impact extended far beyond shattered buildings and lives. The explosion tore through the city’s cultural soul, displacing artists, damaging its rich heritage, and leaving a profound, lingering void.

In response, the BERYT project, funded by the Lebanon Financing Facility, a multi-donor trust fund administered by the World Bank and implemented by UN-Habitat and UNESCO, emerged as a catalyst for renewal. BERYT has supported over 139 cultural professionals and entities, empowering more than 5,000 artists and reaching around 62,000 people through performances, workshops and exhibitions.

From youth circus groups raising environmental awareness to shoemakers reviving ancestral crafts, these initiatives show how culture fuels recovery and reconnects communities. This is not just a story of rebuilding—it’s a story of endurance, identity and hope. Watch now to discover how culture is helping Beirut heal.

Read more:https://www.unesco.org/en/articles/unesco-mobilizes-beiruts-revival

unesco #BERYT #Lebanon

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The responible of Christians relations in hezbollah mohamad al khansa: nasrallah's pic on raouche gives dignity to raouche and we have the ability to put nasrallah's pic on all of beirut's buildings

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Adapting to extremes Lebanon's farmers battle heat and drought

Adapting to extremes Lebanon's farmers battle heat and drought

A shepherd herds his flock on the dry bed of Lake Qaraoun in the Western Bekaa, Lebanon, July 30, 2025. (Photo by Bilal Jawich/Xinhua)
by Dana Halawi

BEIRUT, Sept. 15 (Xinhua) -- Sawfar, perched about 1,300 meters above sea level, should be enjoying the warmth of late summer that ripens tomato crops. This year, however, an unrelenting heatwave scorched the seedlings long before their time.

Kesmat Rabah, who cultivates organic vegetables, watched helplessly as half her tomato crops dry up. "We used to rely on rain and snow, but this summer was harsher than ever," she said. "We had to buy water every three days -- about 300 U.S. dollars each time -- just to keep the plants alive."

Across Lebanon, farmers are grappling with a climate that seems to have no rhythm. The country, once celebrated for its lush landscapes and abundant springs, saw rainfall drop by over 60 percent during the 2024-2025 season. Key rivers and springs, including Al-Bayada, Hasbani, Al-Yamouna, and the Litani -- Lebanon's agricultural lifeline -- are drying up, leaving ecosystems collapsing and rural communities scrambling for water.

Farmers harvest wheat in Marjeyoun, Lebanon, on June 11, 2025. (Photo by Taher Abu Hamdan/Xinhua)

For farmers, these shifts are not abstract numbers but daily challenges.

Sara Samaan, an agricultural engineer working at plant nursery Cosanostra, recalled how her water reservoirs, normally sufficient for July, barely held half the usual volume this year.

"We had to buy water, but it's salty, and that damages seedlings," she explained. To cope with the dilemma, her team filtered the water, built shading structures, and applied mulch to protect young plants from the scorching sun. "The temperature is too high nowadays. These practices are necessary just to keep our crops alive."

This photo taken on July 30, 2025 shows Lake Qaraoun in the Western Bekaa, Lebanon. (Photo by Bilal Jawich/Xinhua)
Climate scientists warned that such extreme condi...
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How Israeli spies infiltrated Nasrallah’s hideout just before his assassination.

Mossad agents planted devices in the heart of Haret Hreik that guided the Israeli army’s strikes on the bunker where the former Hezbollah leader was located

Israeli spies infiltrated Hezbollah’s stronghold in Beirut in September 2024, as war raged between Israel and Hezbollah, installing devices that guided airstrikes which killed Hassan Nasrallah on Sept. 27, 2024, according to reports published Sunday by the Israeli daily Yediot Ahronoth.

The Mossad mission was carried out while Israeli fighter jets bombarded Hezbollah strongholds in the southern suburbs of Beirut, the outlet reported.

Several agents infiltrated Haret Hreik, carrying carefully concealed packages. The team slipped through narrow alleyways, hoping that their superiors had coordinated with the Israeli army so the military wouldn’t bomb their escape route. Their destination was a residential building under which an underground bunker served as the Shiite party’s headquarters, according to the reports.

Intelligence passed to Unit 8200 and Israeli military intelligence services indicated that Nasrallah was set to meet in the bunker with the commander of Iran’s Al-Quds Force in Lebanon, General Abbas Nilforoushan, and the chief of Hezbollah’s southern front, Ali Karaki, seen as a possible Nasrallah successor.

Only a handful of Hezbollah guards and close associates knew about the bunker, according to the Israeli press. Mossad agents were tasked with placing their devices in predetermined locations inside the building. The team completed its mission amid bombing, installing the devices and slipping away undetected.

Hours before setting out, the agents had a tense discussion with their Mossad supervisor. They said they were ready for the mission but demanded that the air force pause its heavy bombardment during their infiltration. The supervisor insisted otherwise: the raids would not only continue but intensify, forcing Hezbollah guards to seek shelter and giving the agents a window to reach the bunker.
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Beirut blast: 5 years on, Bulgaria arrest marks breakthrough in renewed probe

Beirut blast: 5 years on, Bulgaria arrest marks breakthrough in renewed probe

Bulgarian police have arrested the owner of a ship tied to the 2020 Beirut port blast as the resumed investigation progresses.

Beatrice Farhat

Sep 16, 2025
Beirut port
This aerial view shows a capsized ship and smoke rising from the heavily damaged grain silos in Beirut's blast-hit port on July 29, 2022. — AFP via Getty Images

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BEIRUT — Bulgarian authorities confirmed on Tuesday that the owner of a vessel suspected of importing the explosive material that caused the massive 2020 Beirut port blast has been arrested, a significant development in the investigation that resumed earlier this year.

What happened: Igor Grechushkin, a 48-year-old dual Russian-Cypriot citizen wanted by Interpol, was detained at Sofia Airport on Sept. 5 upon arriving from the Cypriot city of Paphos, Bulgarian outlets reported, citing the country’s chief of border police.

Chief Inspector Zdravko Samuilov told Bulgarian news agency BTA that Grechushkin did not resist arrest and nothing suspicious was found in his luggage.

He was placed in custody for up to 40 days on an order from the Sofia Court of Appeal, Bulgaria’s top prosecutor said in a press release issued Tuesday.

During this period, Lebanese authorities must issue the Bulgarian Supreme Court a request for Grechushkin’s extradition to Lebanon, where he is wanted for his role in the massive explosion.

The blast at the Beirut port in August 2020 was caused by a fire at a warehouse where nearly 3,000 tons of ammonium nitrate had been improperly stored since 2014. The explosion, one of the world’s largest non-nuclear explosions, sent a mushroom cloud towering over Beirut and ravaged entire neighborhoods, killing more than 220 people and injuring thousands of others.

Background: Grechushkin is the suspected owner of Rhosus, the ship that transported 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate, a volatile chemical commonly used in fertilizers, to the port of Beirut in November 2013.

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Hadi Wahab says that Hezbollah has a network of spies and traitors working inside it that helped kill Hassan Nasrallah. He says that Hassan Alla2 is the head of this network and is a traitor in Hezbollah

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The wicked evil Zionist enemy keeps coming in to Lebanon on ATVs to rig civilian homes and detonate them - A violation of international law and Lebanon’s sovereignty

From Mais Al-Jabal, photojournalist and VPol contributor Courtney Bonneau (@courtneybonneauimages ) reports on Israel’s ongoing ethn-c cle-nsing of border villages in South Lebanon.
￭ Standing near the Blue Line with an IOF base behind her, she explains how Israeli occupation forces entered on ATVs, rigged a home with C4, and detonated it, leaving some explo-ives behind.
￭ The Lebanese army is now clearing the site, dismantling b-mbs and m-nes.
￭ Bonneau notes this is yet another violation of Lebanese sovereignty and questions how the IOF is allowed to cross the border to demolish civilian homes.

Source: https://x.com/vocalpolitics1/status/1966512125209362899?s=46
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Wait till people realize that hezbollah launching this war, wasn’t even what Shiites were ever ordered to do; true shii teachings call for patience, neutrality, and defensive-only action until the return of the Imam.

Hezbollah’s military interventions illustrate the exact opposite of the classical Shii principle of neutrality and defensive only warfare. According to the teachings cited from al-Kāfī and Shaykh al-Mufīd, Shiaa are completely forbidden from initiating offensive military action without the guidance of the infallible Imam, and fighting is only permissible in self-defense. Yet Hezbollah has repeatedly launched attacks against Israel in response to events affecting Palestinians, often framing these actions as religiously justified resistance. From a classical Shii perspective, such unilateral offensives even when motivated by solidarity or moral outrage violate the injunction: «كُلُّ رَايَةٍ تُرْفَعُ قَبْلَ قِيَامِ الْقَائِمِ فَصَاحِبُهَا طَاغُوتٌ يُعْبَدُ مِنْ دُونِ اللَّهِ» and «لَيْسَ لِلشِّيعَةِ أَنْ يُقَاتِلُوا … إِلَّا أَنْ يُدْفَعَ عَنْ أَنْفُسِهِمْ أَوْ عَنْ حُرُمَاتِهِمْ»
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Charlie Kirk = Hasan Nasrallah

I'm sure this post is gonna get a lot of grief but bear with me a second before you bash me. I don't mean it to offend MAGA types or Hizballah sympathizers that each regarded the man in question as righteous. Look at it factually, aside from the fact that HN was actually a political, military & clerical leader and CK was just a commentator, both are polarizing figures. One thing they both had in common was the fiery rhetoric and uncompromising stances on issues. At the same time they each had a huge following and perpetuated hate whether it was justified or not, I am not willing to debate that but you can argue they both had that sway with their followers. Now I don't condone violence or assassinations but in some ways I think the world is a better place without these guys. I get it that they were revered by many but at the same time I am more for reconciliation and tolerance, not traits ever exhibited by these 2 men. Sure everyone is free to think as they'd like but its dangerous when you have someone in high standing when their negative ideas are contagious.
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Time Is Running Out for Lebanon to Disarm Hezbollah, U.S. Officials Warn https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/us/politics/lebanon-hezbollah-disarm.html

My point of sharing this news article is not talk about hezb's weapons or anything, but one paragraph from New York Times, supposedly a reputable newspaper, showcasing that the U.S knows nothing about the complexities of Lebanon, or deliberately twists realities to suit its agendas. It reads:

With its combustible mix of religious and ethnic tensions and sensitive border with Israel, Lebanon has confounded American presidents since Dwight D. Eisenhower deployed 14,000 American troops there to thwart a feared communist takeover

Now i know what result of that back then was probably the best outcome (if you disregard the civil war later on), but to say the capitalistic big guy, amrika, came in to save us from communism is plain stupidity and just a showmanship act to justify current american involvment in Lebanese affairs.
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