Beirut has frequent bus connections to other cities in Lebanon and major cities in Syria.

* Uruguay has an embassy in Beirut.

* The band Beirut has a song titled " Fountains and Tramways " on the EP Pompeii.

As Middle East correspondent of The Independent, he has primarily been based in Beirut for more than 30 years.

UNTSO has offices in Beirut and Damascus.

Abdullah proposed the Arab Peace Initiative at the Beirut Summit that March, which Friedman has strongly supported since.

In June, 2008, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visited Beirut, stating that " the United States believes that the time has come to deal with the Shebaa Farms issue ... in accordance with

In recent years, ViCE has brought acts like Wyclef Jean, M. I. A., Vampire Weekend, TV on the Radio, Girl Talk, Passion Pit, Beirut, The Flaming Lips, Beach House, and Broken Social Scene to campus.

The whole work has been published at Bulaq ( 1863 ), Cairo ( 1885 ) and Beirut ( 1988 ).

This reservation has always been regarded by His Majesty's Government as covering the vilayet of Beirut and the independent Sanjak of Jerusalem.

Neutral Milk Hotel's sound has influenced numerous groups such as Arcade Fire, Bon Iver, Beirut, Franz Ferdinand, and The Decemberists.

The Party has an active parliamentary group and got MPs elected in nearly all major Christian constituencies as Beirut, Metn, Zahlé, Aley and the North.

referring to Netanya suicide attack perpetrated on previous evening which the Beirut Summit has failed to address.

PHMI has long-standing collaborative relationships with medical faculties at Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, Germany, and the Lebanese American University ( LAU ) in Beirut, Lebanon.

This reservation has always been regarded by His Majesty's Government as covering the vilayet of Beirut and the independent Sanjak of Jerusalem.

It has been falsely reported that he has another grandson, Zach Condon, lead singer and instrumentalist of the band Beirut, but this is incorrect.

He saw the role of the American University of Beirut ( originally the Syrian Protestant College ) as central to this development, although he notes that later on, by the end of the 19th century, that role has diminished, since the college initiated instruction in English.

Labib Boutros, former director of athletics at the American University of Beirut has conducted recent studies of an ancient stadium in Amrit, Syria ( ancient " Marathos ") and suggested that it's construction may date back as far as 1500 BC, saying that the Amrit stadium held festivals that were " devoted to sports in Phoenicia several centuries before the Olympic Games "

Beirut, the capital city of Lebanon, has long been known, especially in a period immediately following World War II, for its art and intellectualism.

During Mathews ' tenure as president, the Carnegie Endowment has launched the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut ( 2006 ), Carnegie Europe in Brussels ( 2007 ), and Carnegie-Tsinghua at the Tsinghua University in Beijing ( 2010 ).

He pinned a copy of his new ID, which has ' I ' for his madhdhab outside his apartment in Ras Beirut.

Shortly after take off from New York, Jonah is informed that Israel has attacked Beirut, Damascus, and Cairo with nuclear weapons in retaliation for their poisoning of Tel Aviv's water supply.

" Maloof contacted Perle, stating that Iraqi officials are " prepared to meet with you in Beirut, and as soon as possible, concerning ' unconditional terms ' ", and that " Such a meeting has Saddam Hussein's clearance.

Sometimes the strip follows current or recent events: in a parody of the kidnapping of Alan Johnston, Roger is kidnapped in Beirut but after eight days it turns out to be an attempt to seek publicity.

IDF's LASHAB was developed mainly in recent decades, after Operation Peace for Galilee ( 1982 ) included urban warfare in Beirut and Lebanese villages, and was further developed during the Second Intifada ( 2000 – 2005 ) in which IDF soldiers entered and engaged in fighting in Palestinian cities, villages and refugee camps.

* The Kuwaiti newspaper A-Siasa reports that Palestinian and international terrorist organizations have decided at a recent Beirut conference to launch a wave of terror attacks against Israeli and Jewish interests worldwide.

His most recent contributions were Anti-Semitism and the Beirut Pogrom and The Continuing Appeal of Nationalism.

Although less central to modern conflict, vast areas of 20th century cities such as Warsaw, Dresden, Coventry, London and Berlin were left in ruins following World War II, and a number of major cities around the world – such as Beirut, Kabul, Sarajevo, Grozny and Baghdad – have been partially or completely ruined in recent years as a result of more localised warfare.

The most recent assemblies were: Montreal, Canada 2008 Chiang Mai, Thailand 2004, Beirut, Lebanon 1999 and Yamoussoukro, Côte d ' Ivoire 1995.

Before his assassination, he was working on another book about the " Beirut Spring " that aimed to discuss the recent momentous developments in Lebanon, that was supposed to be published by Actes Sud.

In recent years, a series of bombings and assassinations have struck Lebanon, most of them occurring in and around the capital, Beirut.

Wanting to maximize the area under its direct control, contain an Arab Syria centered on Damascus, and insure a defensible border, France established the Lebanon-Syrian border to the " Anti-Lebanon " mountains, on the far side of the Beqaa Valley, territory which had belonged to the province of Damascus for hundreds of years, and was far more attached to Damascus than Beirut by culture and influence.

In the ensuing fifteen years, Damascus and Beirut justified Syria's continued military presence in Lebanon by citing the continued weakness of a Lebanese armed forces faced with both internal and external security threats, and the agreement with the Lebanese Government to implement all of the constitutional reforms in the Taif Agreement.

Occasionally, there are frosts during the winter, and about once every fifteen years a light powdering of snow falls as far south as Beirut.

Shoghi Effendi later attended the Syrian Protestant College ( later known as the American University of Beirut ) for his final years of high school and first years of university where he earned an arts degree in 1918.

** Journalist Terry A. Anderson is released after 7 years ' captivity as a hostage in Beirut ( the last and longest-held American hostage in Lebanon ).

After five years reporting from places such as Beirut, Uganda and Central America, he read the Six O ' Clock News for two years, before moving to BBC1's Breakfast Time programme.

* The meeting hall of the Poseidoniasts of Beirut housed an association of merchant, warehousemen, shipowners and innkeepers during the early years of Roman hegemony, late 2nd century BC.

The family followed Arnaldo's diplomatic postings, such that Sérgio spent his early years in Buenos Aires, Genoa, Milan, Beirut and Rome.

Although the Israelis did succeed in driving the PLO from Beirut and out of Lebanon, they had to remain within southern Lebanon for the next 18 years to secure a buffer zone between other terrorist groups supported by Syria operating in Lebanon and Israel.

The airline expanded during the next years to include Beirut, Baghdad, and Jerusalem, then Cairo and Kuwait then Doha, in addition to flights during the hajj.

Following his initial employment with the American Protestant Mission in Beirut al-Boustani spent most of his years working for the American Protestant Mission.

He lived in Marjayoun until he was four years old and then his family moved to Beirut.

He lived there till he was four years old and then his family moved to Beirut.

They ruled Beirut for 476 years ( from 634 AD till 1110 AD ).

In the years 1895 – 1898 he studied at the Dominican Biblical School in Jerusalem, in 1897-1898 at the Jesuit University of St. Joseph in Beirut, 1899 in London, Cambridge and Berlin.

He began his political career in 1888 in the Ottoman province of Beirut, and through the years up to 1918 served as Governor of Homs, Hama, Baalbek, Anatolia, and Jaffa, which included the then-small suburb of Tel Aviv.

Brian Keenan CBE ( b. 1950 in Belfast, Northern Ireland ) is an Irish writer whose work includes the book An Evil Cradling, an account of the four and a half years he spent as a hostage in Beirut, Lebanon from 11 April 1986 to 24 August 1990.

He returned to Beirut in 2007 for the first time since being released 17 years earlier, and described " falling in love " with the city.

An Evil Cradling is an autobiographical book by Keenan about his four years as a hostage in Beirut.