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...Raja Salame, who sits on the board of Lebanese real estate giant Solidere, declined to comment on the allegations. “My integrity has never been questioned....
...As the housing market has boomed, so have shares in construction companies such as Solidere, which owns tracts of prime Beirut real estate, and like other Lebanese stocks is not subject to foreign finance...
...Further restoration was held up by a dispute over plans for the area with Solidere, the development company founded by Hariri and which restored Beirut after the civil war....
...Solidere, “although a powerful symbol of the regeneration of Beirut after the civil war, is not considered well integrated in Beirut”....
...In her Beirut home, in the city’s swanky Solidere district, there is a bespoke laminate and metal dining table by the London-based Martino Gamper, which can be divided into four parts....
...The architect planning the new hospital, Ahmad Dakiz, also heads the “demolition unit” of Solidere, a construction company that is planning to remake the city’s downtown....
...Zoghbi works for international companies such as Wolff Olins and Google, and corporate clients, newspapers and magazines all over the Gulf, as well as teaching at the American University of Beirut....
...The bank is also the largest shareholder in Solidere, the real estate developer that rebuilt Beirut’s Central District....
...Several Middle East companies already run DR programmes, such as Orascom Telecom, Orascom Construction and Commercial International Bank in Egypt, Solidere in Lebanon and Turkcell....
...Less organic but perhaps just as effective in the evolution of a gastronomic scene are efforts of the Solidere company, which owns large swathes of the central area....
..., Solidere....
...It is no coincidence that Mawared’s partner for Abdali was initially Saudi Oger, the company of Rafiq Hariri, who also backed Solidère....
...Solidere, the company responsible for rebuilding the Lebanese capital, created one big car park in the historic centre of the city before reconstruction began....
...But most of the trading is dominated by one stock, that of the giant Solidere real estate company that was set up by Rafiq Hariri, the assassinated former prime minister and billionaire, to rebuild downtown...
...Realising that east and west Cairo will be cities in their own right, Sodic has teamed up with Solidere, the Lebanese company acclaimed for its reconstruction of central Beirut....
...Prices for new apartments in the city centre, also called Solidère after the company, vary between $3,000 and $7,000 per square metre and they are rising....
...“Solidere [which owns much of redeveloped Beirut] is unscathed. None of its buildings is damaged....
...Solidere, the real estate development corporation that is Lebanon’s largest company, was hit hard, falling from $22 a share before the war to a low of $14.93 on August 9....
...In Lebanon’s tense social and sectarian climate, Shia demonstrators have ex-pressed delight at setting up camp in the exclusive district renovated after the 1975-91 civil war by the Solidère company, of...
...The Beirut index, which is heavily weighted with Solidere, the real estate company, is now off about 1 per cent from the time of my August call....
...Solidère, Lebanon’s largest holding company, has dominated Beirut’s stock exchange since it re-opened in 1996. Shares now trade at about $22 compared to just $8 before Mr. Hariri’s death....
...Shares in Solidere, the real estate company founded by Mr Hariri to rebuild downtown Beirut after the 1975-1990 civil war, have fallen by about 20 per cent since the fighting started....
...Harvey Sawikin, of New York’s Firebird funds, says James Passin, his partner, tripled his money in Solidere, a Lebanese real estate company....
...At the scene of the bombing, at the Beirut seafront, adjacent to the St George hotel and the new marina built by Solidere, the joint-stock company charged with Mr Hariri with rebuilding central Beirut, workmen...
...As prime minister, Mr Hariri worked to rebuild central Beirut from war-time devastation, establishing a joint-stock company, Solidere, whose high real estate prices and lack of transparency fed the sense...
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