The Grand Serail
.....
....The
execution of the reconstruction and renovation of the monument, which occupies
21,480 sq. meters of land and is ornamented with Lebanese and oriental designs
and decorated with six hundred and three arches, took nine hundred workdays.
Thirty-four Lebanese architects and one thousand one hundred and fifty technicians
and workers renovated 39,700 sq. meters distributed into three floors, the
basement, and the attic situated under the brick roof.
The Grand Serail includes 430 rooms and chambers in addition to quarters for
the maintenance and rooms for engines, services, and water tanks as well as
bathrooms. The rooms are distributed in the following way: 85 rooms in the
basement floor, 95 in the ground floor, 125 in the first floor and 125 in
the second floor. The attic houses technical and mechanical services. The
exterior and interior facades are decorated with two hundred and eighty two-lobed
arches, one hundred and ninety-seven pointed arches, six rounded arches, eleven
mandolin arches, and ninety-two pointed arcades. The facades have also huge
gates and fifteen pointed lobed arches made of yellow limestone and have rectangular
windows encased in white limestone. The gates are decorated with renovated
and refurbished lamps.....
....
Decree
N. 2385 of 17/1/1924 as amended by law N. 76 of 3/4/1999 ( articles 2, 5, 15,
49 and 85 ) lays down as follows:
The author of a literary or artistic work, by the very fact of authorship, has
absolute right of ownership over the work, without obligation of recourse to
formal procedures . The author will himself enjoy the benefit of exploitation
of his work, and he possesses exclusive rights of publication and of the reproduction
under any form whatsoever. Whether the work in question comes under the public
domain or not those persons will be liable to imprisonment for a period of one
to three years and to fine of between five and fifty million Lebanese pounds,
or to either one of these penalties, who
1-will
have appended or caused to be appended a usurped name on a literary or artistic
work;
2-will have fraudulently imitated the signature or trademark adopted by an author,
with a view to deceiving the buyer;
3-will have counterfeited a literary or artistic work;
4-or will have knowingly sold, received, or put on sale or into circulation
a work which is counterfeit or signed with a forged signature.
The punishment will be increased in the event of repetition.