CULTURE & HERITAGE
Join events this week to help save Beirut heritage sites
Beirut activists are fighting hard to preserve two of the city's key heritage sites and you can support them by attending a series of...
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...
ENVIRONMENT & PUBLIC SPACE
The violent face of real estate development in Lebanon
An LBC camera crew has become the latest victim of violent Lebanese real estate companies seizing the country's diminishing natural shores, destroying essential ecosystems...
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...
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
CNN’s “The History of Comedy” features no Arabs
CNN has an interesting show airing in the USA right now. It traces the relationship between American history and comedy; in a snappy/selective CNN...
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...
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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Ancient ruins uncovered in the ‘digital district’
A wide range of ancient structures have been uncovered in downtown Beirut that may provide important clues to the city's millennia-old history. The archaeological...
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Band invades Beirut airport
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kV6-susmdBw
It's not easy flying into Beirut these days. With fears of ISIS beheading soldiers and invading villages, refugees spilling out onto the streets, a...
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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...
