Achrafieh
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Achrafieh is an upper-class area in eastern Beirut, Lebanon. In strictly administrative terms, the name refers to a sector centred on Sassine Square, the highest point in the city, as well as a broade
Sursock Palace in Achrafieh, Beirut
Zahrat al Ihsan Street, Achrafieh, Beirut
Ashrafieh Beirut 1960
Moussa Sursock's palace, completed around 1870
Bachir Gemayel
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Bachir Pierre Gemayel was a Lebanese militia commander who led the Lebanese Forces, the military wing of the Kataeb Party, in the Lebanese Civil War and was elected President of Lebanon in 1982.
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…The Hundred Days' War in 1978 saw the Christian militias of the Lebanese Front fight the Syrian deterrent forces. In 1982, Lebanon's president-elect Bachir Gemayel was assassinated by a bomb explosion at the Kataeb office on Sassine Street. The documentary Beirut: The Last Home Movie (1987) by Jennifer Fox shows…
Bachir Gemayel as a child.
Gemayel with his father Pierre.
Gemayel with Kataeb Regulatory Forces militiamen.
Bachir Gemayel with his father Pierre Gemayel at the Kataeb anniversary event in 1977