The renewed Martyr’s Square, Foto: Rania Sassine
Beirut’s heart
The life of a square
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Before the Lebanese Civil War, Martyrs’ Square featured among Beirut’s most dynamic civic spaces. Over two decades after the war ended, the city centre’s reconstruction has all but cut the square adrift from civic life. However, it still has the potential for a Lebanese laboratory of urban identity.
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Rania Sassine is an architect and consultant on Urbanism, graduated from the Academie Libanaise des Beaux-arts (ALBA), where she is a senior lecturer.