A Villa in Lebanon Gets a Transformation

The Wall Street Journal

Nine years ago, Lebanese architect Nabil Gholam was taken to a villa in the mountains above Beirut. Completely unkempt, it had been damaged during Lebanon’s 15-year civil war and Syria’s subsequent military presence in the years before its 2005 withdrawal.

According to local residents and family members the home was used by the Syrian military as a base of security operations and as a prison. Captives scribbled their names on the wall with charcoal and match sticks.

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