The Lebanese capital has experienced moments of peace but many hours of conflict. Find images of Beirut from 1920 to the 1970s: between the peace of the French protectorate era, the modern city of the 1960s and the city bearing the scars of war.
Following the explosion in the port of Beirut, the Lebanese Red Cross is already talking about hundreds of wounded, buildings were blown, cars overturned, all windows shattered. Commentary on factual images and on a map, alternating with the testimonies of anonymous people on site.
A Beyrouth, la population, excédée, se mobilise contre l'incompétence du gouvernement, incapable de gérer une crise qui s'éternise depuis des mois, celle des ordures ménagères qui envahissent les rues. Micro-trottoir d'une manifestante en colère, et interview de Rashid Rahme, médecin, directeur de l'hôpital Sacré-Coeur.
Jacques Robert BOISSIER comments in voice off the images of his trip to Lebanon: modern districts, Muslim quarter, street vendors of pistachios, flowers, bread and view on a carriage.
Jacques Robert BOISSIER comments in voice off the images of his trip to Lebanon. On the corniche, Beirut built «beautiful villas for the summer months to rest from the heat»
The port of Beirut has always been a strategic place and often attacked. For decades the port was the target of bombs and explosions during the civil war.