“The Beirut Holiday Inn rises behind the man who built it, Abdal Mohsin Kattan, in 1975. The H
“The Beirut Holiday Inn rises behind the man who built it, Abdal Mohsin Kattan, in 1975. The Holiday Inn was one of the leading hotels in Beirut at a time when it was the most glamorous city in the Middle East [still is tbh]. But when the Lebanese civil war broke out in 1975, the hotel was fiercely contested by rival militias. Lebanese are still debating what to do with the building.” -- source link
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