Source "For social scientists, for civil society at large, these few buildings represent the evidence of how ugly we were," said Abdul-Halim Jabr, a Beirut-based architect and urban design consultant. "And a kind of lightning rod for some kind of truth and reconciliation." More than 30 years have passed since The Battle of the Hotels in Beirut, yet the heavily damaged Holiday Inn stands alone to remind us of the ugly Lebanese civil-war that resulted…