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This country’s resilience is often symbolized by a war-damaged modernist cinema in the Martyrs’ Square (20[1])region of its capital nicknamed The Egg. When the only major (20[1])landfill in this country shut down in the 2010s, garbage piled high in its Chouf Mountains. The medieval Castle of Gibelet is a tourist attraction in a port city in this country that lends its name to the Greek word for (*) papyrus. (10[1])A 700-year-old (10[1])mummy nicknamed Yasmine was originally from this modern day country’s Maronite community. (10[12])This country, (10[5])whose (10[2])city of (10[1])Byblos was once a Phoenician hub, has a flag (10[2])that (10[1])depicts one of its historically important (10[1])cedar trees. (10[3])For (10[1])10 points, (10[1])name this Middle Eastern country with capital at Beirut. ■END■ (10[3])

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