A phoenix, Beirut seems to always pull itself out its ashes, reinvents itself, has been conquered numerous times in its 7,000-year history, yet it survives by both becoming whatever its conquerors wished it to be and retaining its idiosyncratic persona.
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A phoenix, Beirut seems to always pull itself out its ashes, reinvents itself, has been conquered n
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