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The tragedy that affected Lebanon after the bomb attack in the port of Beirut on August 4, claimed dozens of lives and left thousands of injuries and great material losses. Cultural spaces and heritage buildings in the capital are among the most affected, including the “Sursock Palace” in Ashrafieh. In addition to the terrible devastation that this old building suffered, Lady Yvonne Sursock Cochran (1922-2020 / photo) suffered injuries that were hospitalized, where she died, on Monday, at the age of 98. The founder of the APSAD Association for the Preservation of Heritage Buildings in Lebanon left without seeing the extent of the destruction of the city that he had always loved and its ancient buildings that he had wanted to defend against the brutal urban onslaught since the 1960s. Lady Cochran did not see the “Sursock Palace” destroyed, which has weathered two world wars since its construction in 1860, and witnessed the Ottoman occupation, the French mandate and the independence of Lebanon, before it took twenty years to restore it. after the civil war. Alfred Sursock’s daughter married British Army volunteer Sir Desmond Cochran in 1946 after meeting him that same year at the home of Habib Trad, the guardian the family had chosen for her after her father’s death. After years of “fighting” in the country that had become a blow to the mouths of contractors and brokers, Yvonne Sursock Cochrane continued her career writing (politics and poetry) and giving heritage awareness conferences.
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