Heritage Wealth – The Stone

Description

Heritage Wealth – The Stone – Trésors du Patrimoine – La Pierre – 1211 photos of houses… 33 x 24 x 4.5 cm – 550 pages of full-colored images! – 4.0 kg! (Rare book – Used book but still in good condition)

Through the lens of Raymond Yazbeck, discover and highlight what remained of Lebanon’s splendor. Its traditional houses, its castles, its tourist sites, its houses of worship, its summits crowned by villages, its mountains, its white summits… fascinated by the beauty, the simplicity and the warm hospitality of its inhabitants and its wonderful climate. The book is a masterpiece in itself! Our heritage is not only a matter of some stones or some scripts; it is the memory of our History with all its defects and wisdom…

Characteristic of the book: In 3 languages: English, French, and Arabic
Graphic design and layout Ray’s Photography
Color Separation Leogravure s.a.l.
Printing: Anis commercial printing press s.a.l.
2000 copies of this work have been printed.
Editions Trésors du Patrimoine, Juillet 2008
Edition director: Pierre Barrett
Introductions by Ghassan Tueni May Menassa and Marcel Ghanem

You will find inside the book pictures of all Lebanese Caza

Akkar: 17 photos for 5 villages
Aley: 38 photos for 10 villages
Baabda: 23 photos for 5 villages
Baalbeck: 17 photos for 3 villages
Batroun: 149 photos for 23 villages
Bcharre: 63 photos for 11 villages
Beirut: 47 photos
Bekaa Al Gharbi: 5 photos for 4 villages
Chouf: 168 photos for 13 villages
Hasbaya: 6 photos for 1 village
Hermel: 11 photos for 1 village
Jbeil: 88 photos for 17 villages
Jezzine: 48 photos for 7 villages
Kesrouane: 171 photos for 26 villages
Koura: 27 photos for 5 villages
Marjaayoun: 3 photos for 1 village
Metn: 205 photos for 22 villages
Nabatieh: 6 photos for 1 village
Rachaya: 9 photos for 2 villages
Saida: 29 photos for 1 village
Tripoli: 9 photos for 1 village
Tyre: 8 photos for 1 village
Zahle: 27 photos for 6 villages
Zghorta: 37 photos for 7 villages

Captures of the Book: Heritage Wealth The Stone

The information contained in this book was gathered from the Ministry of Tourism, the internet, books, and experts in the tourism sector.
The names of the owners of residences mentioned in this book were given to us by the residents of cities and towns.
As for the dates of the building of some of these residences, experts have kindly helped us in determining them.
Since the civil war in 1975 and during the following years, I have traveled Lebanon up and down and have witnessed, with a broken heart, the destruction of architectural pieces of art that belonged to our ancestors.

The freestones, the red roofs, the mandaloun, the sculpted wooden doors, the arcades, the lintels, the stone stairs, and the moucharabieh have been replaced by a jungle of concrete and aluminum. The heritage of many ancient civilizations has been also destroyed (Canaanite, Phoenician, Greek, Roman, Arab, Crusader, Ottoman, etc…).

Lebanon, the country of the Cedar and the sun, expresses its identity through its plural architecture.

Today, I cannot but feel the melancholy when I see that my country is invaded by silent and cold concrete like in the desert. Its villages have become miserable; its beaches, a heap of waste; its land abandoned.

Through this book, I wanted to stop the time to preserve the sites that have escaped from the human and massive destruction of our heritage.

Eternalizing these moments, was not only fixing memories, but also a service for the History of my country; a service that I have achieved with great joy.

I wish that this book would encourage each person to contribute to the preservation of our heritage.

Raymond Yazbeck

Some captures:
Armenian school, citadel, House of Raji Chalita, Jbeil, Kartaba
Mayfouq, Saint Elige, Mazraat El Siyed, House of Hussein El Husseini
Bkassine, Jezzine, House of Jamil Nasr, House of Antoine Nammour, Jean Saad…
Kfarhouneh, Jezzine, House of Kamal Haddad, Nassib Abou Antoun, Philippe Chahine
Achkout, Kesrouane, House of Massaad Mansour, Aintoura, Therese Mezher
Aintoura, Kesrouane, House of Fadia El Khazen, Samira Ghosn, Mona Khalil…
Ajaltoun, Kesrouane, House of Riad Tabet, Khalil Tabet
Aramoun, Kesrouane, House of Mouannak family, Robert Obeid, Zaher Dahdah
Dlebta, House of Iskandar Roufael, Sami Roufael, Tony Hattouni, Naoum Roufael
Faraya, House of Salah Khalil, Nasr Khalil, Amine Khalil, Abdo Khalil…
Faraya, Amine Khalil, Ghazir, Gilbert Zwein
Ghazir, Azi family, Maroun Akra, Serge Bronze, Sami El Batouly
Ghazir, House of Abdallah Ouayda, Baz family
Ghazir, Musar, Nabih El Hani, Joseph Ouayda, Ghosta, Bitar Palace
Jounieh, Elias Richa, Joseph Sadek, Fawzi Barakat, Zakhia El Khazen
Jounieh, Freddy Rached…
Sahel Alma, Chafic Frem, Chahtoul, Azar family

The author:

Born in Beirut in 1963, graduated from the photography department at the Holy Spirit University (Kaslik), 1987. Since then, Raymond Yazbeck placed his talent at the service of several magazines and art events in France and Lebanon (festivals, theatre, concerts, fashion, sports…).
Pioneer of digital photography in the Middle East, he created new concepts for weddings.

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