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  • 13 Sep 2018
  • 8 min

Extra: Middle Eastern masonry

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  • Monocle on Design
  • 8 min

Architects, stonemasons and engineers in the Middle East have used ablaq for hundreds of years. Examples are found across Spain, the Middle East and North Africa, showing how architectural techniques pre-date the borders of modern states. Our correspondent in Beirut, Lizzie Porter, visits a restoration project in the northern Lebanese…

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  • Nic Monisse

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