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Where The City Lives

Neighbourhoods

TODO — what each part of Beirut is like to walk around, and who lives there.

2 places
Hamra Street, Beirutmust see
West Beirut

Hamra

The intellectual centre of the Arab world in the 1960s, and still the place in Beirut with the best bookshops.

Gemmayzeh, Beirutmust see
East Beirut

Gemmayzeh and Achrafieh

Nineteenth-century houses, long staircases and the best surviving streetscape in the city — most of it damaged in 2020.