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Can Seal help ‘legalize’ public performance in Beirut?
A lot of you have probably seen the now viral cell phone video shot in the Beirut Souks mall earlier this summer. It's a...
Beirut’s stolen coast and the growing fight to get it back
Activists have put together this great new video looking at how Beirut's natural rocky coastline has basically been stolen from the public, destroyed and...
Does “high technology” mean garbage incineration for Beirut?
"I didn't say incinerators, I said 'high technology,'" Beirut's mayor Jamal Itani told LBC at a recent waste disposal conference. "We are going to...
Above the law: Top 20 illegal election posters
An order from the Beirut governor to enforce laws banning campaign posters in public spaces seems to have fallen on deaf ears. In fact, it's...
Game of Drones
The eight-month old battle between the Lebanese state and anti-corruption activists has taken many forms: from street protests and occupying government buildings–met with tear...
What happened to Beirut’s “Shoreline Walk”?
One of the great things about the internet is that there is just so much floating around out there–like all the plans for Beirut...
How the historic Adloun coast is becoming “Nabih Berri Port”
After several weeks of organizing and documentation by activists, the minister of environment has called for a halt to a port project that threatens...
Abou Rakhousa and the politics of poverty
I'm hearing a lot of people say street protests are dying out in Beirut, though there are more demonstrations planned this week. Whatever the...
Urban intervention at Boutros Road
Following resistance to a municipal plan to create a highway that would bulldoze a historic part of Beirut, architects and urban professionals are now...
How activists reclaimed Beirut’s coast and why it matters
As I have written previously, a new boldness appears to be gaining strength among Lebanese activists in the context of the garbage crisis and...
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