Sentence examples for beirut of from inspiring English sources

The terror didn't start in Beirut, of course.

The mangled city that his character was roaming through looked eerily similar to the war-ravaged Beirut of my childhood.

The most important reverse surrounded the assassination on February 14 in Beirut of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq al-Hariri.

He was indicted in the US for the 1985 hijacking to Beirut of a TWA airliner in which a US navy diver was killed.

The organization virtually invented the multipronged terror attack when, early on the morning of October 23 , 1983 it synchronized the suicide bombings, in Beirut, of the United States Marine barracks and an apartment building housing a contingent of French peacekeepers.

There were hopes that the Beirut of the 50's and 60's -- the banking and intellectual center of the Middle East, the playground for oil-rich Saudi and Persian Gulf Arabs -- would make a comeback.

Blogger/journalist/activist Mahmoud Ghazayel in a play on words transposed Arabic letters on a hazy picture of the Raouché rock to read "Beirut El Ghabriya" (Beirut the dusty), instead of "Beirut El Gharbiya" (West Beirut) where the landmark rests planted in the sea.

A4 Effort to Rejuvenate Beirut Tens of thousands of Lebanese swarmed into downtown Beirut to take part in a five-kilometer run.

"The politicians will eventually make up, but the people are the ones who lost, because Omar ended up hating Ali," said Taha, a former supporter of Hariri in the majority Sunni Beirut area of Tariq al-Jdeideh, referring to two common Sunni and Shia names.

While the National Museum is dedicated to Lebanon's rich past, the Beit Beirut, or House of Beirut, will be a memorial to the recent war.

BEIRUT — Take one of Beirut's battered 1970s Mercedes taxis through the city center and you'll chance across plenty of gold-plated names these days.