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Beirut’s Southern Suburb

 

This is the Suburb, and years have passed since the storm that hit it. This storm does not resemble a Tsunami, but rather an Israeli storm. At the aftermath of the July war of 2006, the amount of mass destruction was revealed. 269 buildings in the Southern Suburban were turned into dust.

The Suburban is the overpopulated area of Southern Beirut that contains a number of Southern Maten coast towns such as Haret Hurreikh, Ghobeiry, Borj Barajneh, Chiah, and others. It witnessed a troubled constructional and popular growth during the Lebanese civil war. As a result of the Southern Lebanese and Bekaa migrations to the Suburb due to the repeated Israeli invasions, and the absence of security, this area soon became a part of the social, constructional, and economic body of Beirut, an entrance to it, and a space of natural expansion.