War & Reconstruction · event 7 of 13

1994

Solidere. A private company is established to rebuild the destroyed city centre, with powers to expropriate owners and compensate them in shares. Around 80 per cent of the historic downtown is demolished. The result is handsome and, most Beirutis will tell you, not theirs.

The War & Reconstruction era

  1. 1975
  2. 1976
  3. 1982
  4. 1983
  5. 1989
  6. 1991
  7. 1994
  8. 2005
  9. 2006
  10. 2011
  11. 2019
  12. 2020
  13. 2023

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