The Ottoman-style mansions, with Venetian windows, arches and lavish gardens that once epitomised Beirut are being levelled one after the other as high-rises mushroom across the capital.
AP Wire Service
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The pattern is set: the home is demolished, its traditional garden destroyed and the land sold and developed.
"Every time an old house goes, a green pocket goes and with it go trees that are often hundreds of years old," says Hallak.
"It's not only the house. It's the tree. It's the bird that follows the tree. It's the quality of life."
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