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Rebuilding Beirut

NPR's Eric Weiner reports that after having been destroyed by 17 years of civil war, the Lebanese capital of Beirut is rising from its ashes in a $2 billion dollar project that hopes to restore the ancient city to its pre-civil war glory. Not everyone, however, is happy about how the project is being conducted and whose interest it is serving.

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