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Beirut's real-life version of 'The Yacoubian Building'
By John Ehab
Special to The Daily Star
Saturday, November 11, 2006
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Longtime residents of Beirut could be forgiven for reacting to the popularity of "The Yacoubian Building" - the bestselling novel written by Alaa al-Aswany and the blockbuster film adaptation directed by Marwan Hamed - with some confusion. Aswany's book and Hamed's movie concern the iconic status of a 70-year-old neoclassical building on Talaat Harb Street in Downtown Cairo.
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