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decided to acquire it in order to install a city memory museum with artifacts tracing the 7,000-year history of the city. The municipality obtained support from the government of France to advance the restoration. The museum, known as Beit Beirut (the House of Beirut), was inaugurated in 2017 on the
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Between 1898 and 1903, Youssef
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produced a large-scale installation based on narratives from this building and its neighborhood. Protests finally led to the suspension of the decision to destroy the building in 2003 and the municipality of
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In 1893 Aftimus worked for a pioneer in
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in 1923, the municipal building still stands at
Weygand and Foch crossroad. Aftimus served as the minister of public works in the 1926-1927 government led by Auguste Basha Adib.
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before returning to Beirut in late 1896. In 1898 Youssef was recruited by the
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to Beirut by the end of the 19th century; his architectural influence would later dominate Beirut's public constructions in the last two decades of
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In addition to his engineering works, Aftimos published an architectural treaties on Arabic architecture entitled
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