During the 1982 Lebanon War, Yasir Arafat's PLO forces took over much of the neighborhood, which was located along the dividing line between the two sides of the Lebanese Civil War.
Abu Dhabi | Abu Ghraib | Mount Abu | Abu Bakr | Mumia Abu-Jamal | Abu Zubaydah | Wadi Halfa | Battle of Abu Klea | Abu Sayyaf | Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse | Wadi Musa | Wadi | Ahmed Omar Abu Ali | Abu Qubays | Abu Musab al-Zarqawi | Abu Mu'az al-Jeddawi | Abu Hamad | Abu Sufyan ibn Harb | Abu Omar al-Kurdi | 2010 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix | Tell Abu Hureyra | Sami Abu Zuhri | Abu Sa'id Mirza | Abu Sa'id (Ilkhanid dynasty) | Abu Saiba | Abu Mustafa al-Sheibani | Abu Marwan Abd al-Malik I Saadi | Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak | Abu Dhabi (emirate) | Abu Abdullah al-Shafi'i |
They include the city's tallest building, Platinum Tower in the Beirut Marina (with Ricardo Bofill); parts of the Saifi Village adjacent to Martyrs' Square; the master plan for the redevelopment of the Wadi Abu Jamil neighborhood; the headquarters of the CMA-CGM international shipping company; the Irani-Oxy Engineering Complex at the American University of Beirut; and numerous other office and residential buildings.