A couple of weeks ago the US embassy released its latest travel warning on Lebanon, as usual urging Americans to... Read More
No citizen is safe when brutality and hate crimes are tolerated. When contacted on Twitter this evening, the Lebanese police... Read More
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 type of way. Last night’s episode looked at how minority comedians have played an important role in shedding light on discrimination in US history and how... Read More
An LBC camera crew has become the latest victim of violent Lebanese real estate companies seizing the country’s diminishing natural... Read More
Beirut activists are fighting hard to preserve two of the city’s key heritage sites and you can support them by... Read More
In the shadow of the towers of new Beirut, the ruins of ancient Beirut have literally been dismembered and piled up at the edge of town. It may be hard to believe today, but ancient Berytus was a very prominent city in the Roman empire, one of a handful of... Read More
Guest post by Dima Karam Amid a maze of pulsing lights, grayscale buildings are wedged together against the blackness of... Read More
A number of images are appearing on social media today documenting the demolition of one of Lebanon’s first major... Read More
Following our last post about the vast ruins site uncovered near the “Beirut Digital District” construction site, a reader got in touch and sent these pictures of ruins discovered near the Port of Beirut. Just across the highway from the port area (see shipping trucks parked above), we can see... Read More
Two years ago the Governor of Beirut issued an order to stop demolition of this historically listed Art Deco building... Read More