Beirut 1994: The Green Line That Wouldn't Die
After the guns fell silent in 1990, Beirut's infamous Green Line—the 14-kilometer no-man's land that split the city into Muslim West and Christian East—remained a physical and psychological scar. While bulldozers cleared rubble and real estate mogul Rafik Hariri launched reconstruction, the line persisted in land titles, sectarian mental maps, and even an abandoned Holiday Inn that no one knew what to do with. This episode traces the Green Line from its birth during the 1975–76 Battle of the Hotels through its afterlife in the 1990s: the unofficial crossings like Museum Crossing, the snipers' nests in the high-rises, and the strange peace that came when people started driving through it again. We talk about the architects who tried to erase it with parks and highways, the families who refused to move back across it, and the young Lebanese who today barely believe it existed. A story about how a city forgot to keep a wound open.
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