EEnvironment & Public Space Read More 3 minute read Beirut’s stolen coast and the growing fight to get it backbyHabib BattahNov 23, 2016 Activists have put together this great new video looking at how Beirut’s natural rocky coastline has basically been…
EEnvironment & Public Space Read More 1 minute read Does “high technology” mean garbage incineration for Beirut?byHabib BattahOct 16, 2016 “I didn’t say incinerators, I said ‘high technology,'” Beirut’s mayor Jamal Itani told LBC at a recent…
CCrime Read More 2 minute read Above the law: Top 20 illegal election postersbyHabib BattahMay 6, 2016 An order from the Beirut governor to enforce laws banning campaign posters in public spaces seems to have fallen…
EEnvironment & Public Space Read More 2 minute read Game of DronesbyHabib BattahMar 11, 2016 The eight-month old battle between the Lebanese state and anti-corruption activists has taken many forms: from street protests…
EEnvironment & Public Space Read More 5 minute read What happened to Beirut’s “Shoreline Walk”?byHabib BattahFeb 14, 2016 One of the great things about the internet is that there is just so much floating around out…
CCulture & Heritage Read More 3 minute read How the historic Adloun coast is becoming “Nabih Berri Port”byHabib BattahJan 25, 2016 After several weeks of organizing and documentation by activists, the minister of environment has called for a halt…
CCulture & Heritage Read More 6 minute read Abou Rakhousa and the politics of povertybyHabib BattahNov 10, 2015 I’m hearing a lot of people say street protests are dying out in Beirut, though there are…
EEnvironment & Public Space Read More 2 minute read Urban intervention at Boutros RoadbyHabib BattahNov 5, 2015 Following resistance to a municipal plan to create a highway that would bulldoze a historic part of Beirut,…
EEnvironment & Public Space Read More 4 minute read How activists reclaimed Beirut’s coast and why it mattersbyHabib BattahSep 13, 2015 As I have written previously, a new boldness appears to be gaining strength among Lebanese activists in the…
EEnvironment & Public Space Read More 2 minute read A new era of boldness?byHabib BattahSep 3, 2015 These last few weeks have seen a lot of unprecedented moments in Lebanon. We saw huge protests in…