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Beirut residents determined to save heritage lost to blast

by Associated Press
| August 28, 2020 8:27 AM

BEIRUT (AP) — For the past decade, art collector Nabil Debs has been working on turning his 19th century ancestral home in a historic neighborhood of Beirut to a hotel and art gallery. He planned to open it to the public in mid-August.

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