CULTURE & HERITAGE
How did ancient Beirut get tossed in a pile?
In the shadow of the towers of new Beirut, the ruins of ancient Beirut have literally been dismembered and piled up at the edge...
Beirut illustrated in “A City Neighboring the Earth”
Guest post by Dima Karam
Amid a maze of pulsing lights, grayscale buildings are wedged together against the blackness of night. In this disconsolate city...
ENVIRONMENT & PUBLIC SPACE
Janneh dam investigation now in Arabic
Thanks to the help of lawyers collective Legal Agenda and public space advocates Public Works Studio, my investigation into the myriad of technical problems with the...
A Dam Is Built in ‘Paradise’
The following article originally appeared in Take Part, a US-based online publication that has recently ceased operation. I'm posting it here in case the...
LAW & CRIME
Pomp, circumstance and Mercedes-Benz
It's that time of year again, and after hours of handshaking as part of Independence Day celebrations...
The leadership (President Aoun, Speaker Berri, Prime Minister...
PUBLIC SERVICES
Venice? No, it’s all in Lebanon!
Have you ever been to Lake Naccache? It's so romantic with restaurants right on the waterfront.
But strangely, the people drive cars, not boats:
...which doesn't...
MEDIA
Top 7 ‘fake news’ stories on CNN
Ah "fake news" and the "post truth" era: the demise of the world as we know it through the dangerous spread of unreliable social...
President or general: what should the Lebanese press expect?
The Lebanese press has enjoyed a relative amount of freedom in recent years as I have written about here, but how much will this...
IN DEPTH
The gutting of Beirut’s Roman racetrack
We often worry about extremists groups like ISIS destroying history in the Middle East. But in Beirut, private capital and well-connected developers are also...
Unpacking the Arab Tech Boom
The word entrepreneur has become ubiquitous in talk about the future of Arab business. Some have even claimed a quiet economic revolution is at...
TRAVEL
In latest shooting, a very different reaction
It's been over ten days since the mass shooting at US military offices in Tennessee and here in Texas, flags are still at half...
Skiing with the IDF
Yesterday we set out for a fun day on the slopes.
Thankfully, when we reached the peaks at Faraya, the lifts were running smoothly:
And the...
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Inside the new Lebanese National Library
Two years ago I posted about the near completion of construction work at Lebanon's National Library. This week, I got a look inside for...
FEATURED VIDEO
Journalists beaten, where is the media?
Watch this graphic video of journalists from Al Jadeed being beaten. They were working on an investigative story about corruption among Lebanese customs officials....
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Rose House opening to the public
Next week, Beirut's storied "Rose House", which sits on a rare green hill overlooking the Mediterranean, will be open to the public for the...
