Americans return to AUB

From: Middle East | Date: November 1, 1997| Author: Tuttle, Robert | Copyright information

In Beirut's Hamra district, on the scenic sea front campus of the American University of Beirut, cranes and construction workers are busily at work rebuilding College Hall. Once the oldest building on the AUB campus, where the cornerstone of the University was laid in 1866, College Hall fell victim to a bomb attack in 1991 - a postscript to Lebanon's bloody 15 year civil war. The new, rebuilt College Hall is expected to be complete within the next year. Its rebuilding serves as the symbol of ...

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