Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, has a population of 2.23 ... the Middle East” for its colonial French buildings and Ottoman-era architecture. Joseph Haddad, secretary-general of the Association ...

when Lebanon was under French control. These mimic many Ottoman design elements but were partly modelled on the architecture of Paris. Attached to create a single long line, most are three or four ...

Then came Rome, Byzantium, sundry Crusades, the Ottoman Empire and the colonial French, each adding new stones to the pile. Archaeologists believe that the city of Jubayl, known historically as ...

Clothing, social norms, governance, art, architecture, and music were all areas of cultural exchange and fusion. A highly significant Ottoman influence in Lebanon was the millet system that ...

“They brought architects from Italy who worked with craftsmen of Lebanon to create this unique Venetian-Florentine style, with a bit of Ottoman influences.” The architects of Lebanese houses ...

Since the ceasefire, Bajjaly has been traveling around to properties on Lebanon's national register of historic buildings to see if they're still standing. She showed NPR a late Ottoman-style ...

That’s largely down to the efforts of a 16th-century architect, who constructed some of Istanbul’s most iconic buildings and established a uniquely Ottoman style of architecture. In a career ...

Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, has a population of 2.23 ... the Middle East” for its colonial French buildings and Ottoman-era architecture. Joseph Haddad, secretary-general of the Association ...

when Lebanon was under French control. These mimic many Ottoman design elements but were partly modelled on the architecture of Paris. Attached to create a single long line, most are three or four ...