Painting Beirut’s slums
When we hear about real estate developers working in poor neighborhoods, it often means they are tearing them…
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…
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…
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…
Urban intervention at Boutros Road
Following resistance to a municipal plan to create a highway that would bulldoze a historic part of Beirut,…
Exhibit proposing coastal alternatives draws crowds
Government officials like to complain that activists love making noise but never propose actual solutions. This is especially…
Playing monopoly with the lights off
How does municipal planning work in Beirut? Who draws up the projects and what experts are consulted? The…
Last chance to support Dalieh crowdfunding campaign
Readers of this blog will be quite familiar with the campaign to save Beirut’s last undeveloped natural rocky…
Inside the forbidden Horsh
Last year, we were allowed inside Beirut’s only major park for just one day. This year, (tomorrow May 16)…
Does Beirut deserve green space?
Next week there is a protest to call for the opening of Beirut’s only major park, which…