Editing Jounieh (section)

=== Modern history ===
[[File:Night comes to life (8278992944).jpg|left|thumb|View from [[Harissa, Lebanon]]]]
The area also witnessed an increase in the price of land from an average of seven to nine Lebanese pounds per square meter between 1950 and 1960 to an average of 25 to 35 Lebanese pounds in 1965.

The construction sector developed slowly starting from Sarba to Harat Sakhr, and finally the coast of ‘Alma. The buildings also started expanding around the city as the agricultural sector contracted and became confined to the coasts of [[Kaslik]] and some orchards in Ghadir, Harat Sakhr and the coast of ‘Alma. In the beginning of the seventies, Jounieh was transformed to a major and complete tourist center with the tourist network around it and on its edges including: [[Casino du Liban]], the cable cars, the Harisa Church, the caverns in [[Jeita Grotto|Jeita]], restaurants, hotels, nightclubs, and the port.

==== Lebanese Civil War ====
With the war of 1975, and the division of [[Beirut]] into East and West parts and the escalation of the violence, many people fled to safe areas and were organizing their lives in accordance with the new realities.

From 1980 to 1990, Jounieh witnessed a massive migration as a large number of the Beirut traders moved to its markets. Buildings took over its green spaces, and the tourist complexes took over its shores. So its features changed randomly though it benefited from the use of the tourist port for commerce.

During the Civil War the ferry making the 120 mile journey from Jounieh to [[Larnaca]] was the only way to travel in and out of Lebanon for those living in the areas controlled by Christian militias. Over the fourteen years from 1975 an estimated 990,000 Lebanese left the country, up to 40% of the population.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hamline.edu/cla/academics/international_studies/diaspora2002/Lebanese/Paper.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090115011357/http://www.hamline.edu/cla/academics/international_studies/diaspora2002/Lebanese/Paper.htm |archive-date=15 January 2009 |title=Senior Seminar: Transnational Migration and Diasporic Communities |publisher=Hamline University |access-date=17 January 2013}} Van Dusenbry Chapter IV, section B “Emigration: Civil War to the Present”.</ref>
During the 1989 fighting between [[Michel Aoun|General Aoun]] and the [[Lebanese Forces]] 10,000 civilians from Beirut arrived in Cyprus over a six-week period.<ref>[[Middle East International]] No 349, 28 April 1989; [[Jim Muir]] p.9</ref> On 24 February 1990 the ferry was attacked by an unidentified naval patrol boat. One passenger was killed and seventeen wounded.<ref>Middle East International No  370, 2 March 1990; Michael Jansen p.7</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-02-25-mn-2239-story.html|title=Ferry Shelled Off Lebanon; One Killed : Mideast: 15 others are wounded. A Syrian warship may have shot up the Cypriot vessel.|first=NICK B. WILLIAMS|last=Jr|date=February 25, 1990|website=Los Angeles Times}}</ref> In 1997 a [[catamaran]] was operating between Larnaca and Jounieh. A return ticket for the four-hour journey cost US$100. At the time the average monthly income in Lebanon was US$132.<ref>''The World of Information Middle East Revue 1999 - The Economic and Business Report'' Walden Publishing Ltd. {{ISBN|1-86217-0134}}. Natalia Acre-Sanchez p.98 ferry, p.97 income</ref>

==== Post Civil War ====
On 18 June 1991 six people were killed and 30 wounded after an explosion at a [[Lebanese Forces]] ammunition dump.<ref>[[Middle East International]] No 403, 28 June 1991, Publishers [[Christopher Mayhew|Lord Mayhew]], [[Dennis Walters|Dennis Walters MP]]; p. 15 ‘twenty-eight days in brief’</ref>

On 7 May 2005, a car bomb exploded between the Christian Sawt al Mahaba [[radio station]] and the Mar Yuhanna [[Church (building)|Church]] in Jounieh. The radio station was destroyed and the church suffered major damage. Twenty-two people were wounded.<ref>{{cite news |author=Farid Emile Chedid |title=Lebanonwire, Live News Direct From Beirut, Lebanon |publisher=Lebanonwire |url=http://www.lebanonwire.com/0505/05050706AFP.asp |url-status=dead |accessdate=25 October 2012 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129052235/http://www.lebanonwire.com/0505/05050706AFP.asp |archivedate=29 November 2014}}</ref>

Today, close to 100,000 people reside in Jounieh. Those who live in its suburbs exceed that number. By the middle of the century, it is predicted that Jounieh will become a suburb of Beirut in a coastal line that forms one city that expands the length of the coastal road at a time when the inhabitants of Lebanon will reach six million plus around the year 2025. The population of Jounieh is majority [[Maronite]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.jounieh.gov.lb/index.php |title=أهلاً وسهلاً في بلدية جونيه |access-date=2020-04-13 |archive-date=2020-02-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200203075330/http://www.jounieh.gov.lb/index.php |url-status=dead }}</ref>