serail

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Since early Wednesday, riot police and army special forces were deployed around the government headquarters, an Ottoman-era three-story building known as the Grand Serail of Beirut.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 22, 2023

When I met Hassan Diab in May at his office in the Ottoman-era hilltop Grand Serail, he was waiting for a new government.

From New York Times • Oct. 28, 2021

Since September they have held a round-the-clock vigil outside the Lebanese capital’s most prominent government building, the Grand Serail, displaying protest signs and pictures of the captured men.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 1, 2015

The government sits in the palatial Grand Serail and discusses plans for a cease-fire.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then listen to the first fifteen seconds of Mozart’s aria ‘Welche Wonne, Welche Lust’ from his opera Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail of the same year.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall