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  PROJECTING BEIRUT

Interactive CD-ROM documenting the city's urban history, its prominent architecture, and the maps of the city center.

Designed and Directed
Allen Sayegh
Markus Schaefer

Text by
Samir Khalaf
Ilham Khoury-Makdisi
Rodolphe el-Khoury
Hashim Sarkis

Curated by
Peter G. Rowe
Hashim Sarkis

Technical Assistance
Michelle Tarsney

Music
Nik Schaefer

Voice-over
Guillemente de Boucaud
Rami el-Samahi

Digital CD Graphics Consultant
Hani Asfour

Cover and CD Label Design
Nélida Nassar, Nassar Design

Acknowledgments
Farès el-Dahdah, Margaret Fletcher, S. Kirsten Gay, Joumana Ghandour Atallah, Brooke Hodge, Zeina Misk, Oussama Kabbani, Lilian Kuri, Peter Mabardi, Nuhad Makdissi, Assem Salam, Jad Tabet, Ayman Zahreddine

Produced by the Harvard University Graduate School of Design as a compilation of information gathered at a data base on Lebanon at the GSD.

The CD-ROM was first displayed at an exhibition and conference at the GSD in April 1997

The Exhibition was co-organized by

The Réne Moawad
Foundation
The Center for Behavioral
Research at the American
University of Beirut
The Order of Engineers and Architects, Beirut
SOLIDERE, the Lebanese Company for the Development and Reconstruction of the Beirut Central District

The Exhibition and Conference were sponsored in part by

The Hariri Foundation
Dar al-Handasah
George Frem
The American University of Beirut Alumni Council New England Chapter
Middle East Airlines
Plan B
Institute for Urban Design Studies in Lebanon and the Middle East
The Emile Bustani Foundation

Production of the CD-ROM was made possible by grants from

SOLIDERE, the Lebanese Company for the Development and Reconstruction of the Beirut Central District
The Fayez Moawad Foundation
Georges Frem

Distributed in Lebanon and the Middle East by
An-Nahar Publishers Beirut

System Requirements
Macintosh: 24 MB RAM or higher
Windows: Windows 95/NT, Pentium 100, 24MB RAM or higher, 16-bit color

The Companion Book
Projecting Beirut: Episodes in the Construction of a Modern City
1998, Prestel; Munich, London, New York

In the Frances Loeb Library:
Visual Resources: VisRes NA1476.7.B45 P761 1997