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	Podcast:		Monocle 24: Section D
	Episode:		Extra: Middle Eastern masonry
	Category:		Arts
	Duration:		00:08:32
	Publish Date:		2018-09-13 12:25:00
	Description:		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 city of Tripoli.
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