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;... Read More
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 for profit and assaulting anyone who tries to document their activities. The LBC crew was violently attacked on Wednesday while filming a new resort being built... 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... Read More
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 watched over by a probing moon, Farid Tawil, a regular employee, steps off one of Beirut’s derelict buses and wanders his way back home only... 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... Read More
Two years ago the Governor of Beirut issued an order to stop demolition of this historically listed Art Deco building in Gemmayze, and shared the news to much fanfare on Facebook, as we reported at the time. But the image above was taken today and we can clearly see the... Read More
A wide range of ancient structures have been uncovered in downtown Beirut that may provide important clues to the city’s... Read More