Seashore, Inc.

There is a map of Beirut’s private coast from Dalieh to the southern city limits accompanying this article. You can find it here. *** On February 10, 1966, Inmaa Tourism and Hotels bought two plots of land on the sandy shores of Ramlet al-Baida. Eight years later, the company bought seven more plots, bringing its total land holdings on the coast in this area of Beirut to around 30,000 square meters (m²). The land is still owned by Inmaa. Who owns Inmaa, however, is another story entirely, one which reflects the confusing ownership structure of the land stretching from Dalieh near the Pigeon Rocks to the end of Beirut’s southern city limits. Individual people own only around 27 percent of the Dalieh-Ramlet al-Baida land. The public sector — via the Beirut Municipality and the Lebanese government — each own three plots which represent around 5 percent of the land. Corporations own the