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Urban@Parsons Presents Beirut Between Heritage Preservation and Amnesia<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mona El Hallak Ghaibeh is a Lebanese architect and heritage preservation activist. She received her B. Arch from AUB in 1990 and her Master of Architecture from Syracuse University-Florence Program in 1994. Since 2001, she has her own practice with many residential projects built and under construction in Beirut.<\/p>\n

She is a member of APSAD \u201cAssociation pour le Sauvegarde des Sites et Anciens Demeures au Liban\u201d ,a founding member of \u201cIRAB\u201d, a non-governmental organization working on the preservation of the musical heritage of the Arab world, and a founding member of \u201cZAKIRA\u201d, a non-governmental organization for promoting photography and its role in documenting and preserving Memory.<\/p>\n

She led several heritage preservation campaigns and succeeded in the preservation of the \u201cBarakat Building\u201d in Beirut after 15 years of lobbying. The building was expropriated by the Municipality of Beirut and will be turned into Beit Beirut : a museum of memory and a cultural and urban center for the City of Beirut.<\/p>\n

In 2013, she was given the \u201cOrdre National du Merite au grade de Chevalier\u201d from the President of the French Republic in recognition of her work and achievements in preserving cultural and architectural heritage in Beirut.<\/p>\n

Wednesday, November 18, 2015 5:30pm \u2013 7:30pm
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25 E 13th Room E302, New York<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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