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Painting Beirut’s slums

  • byHabib Battah
  • Aug 11, 2017
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When we hear about real estate developers working in poor neighborhoods, it often means they are tearing them…
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Join events this week to help save Beirut heritage sites

  • byHabib Battah
  • May 15, 2017
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Beirut activists are fighting hard to preserve two of the city’s key heritage sites and you can support…
EEnvironment & Public Space
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Beirut’s stolen coast and the growing fight to get it back

  • byHabib Battah
  • Nov 23, 2016
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Activists have put together this great new video looking at how Beirut’s natural rocky coastline has basically been…
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Above the law: Top 20 illegal election posters

  • byHabib Battah
  • May 6, 2016
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An order from the Beirut governor to enforce laws banning campaign posters in public spaces seems to have fallen…
EEnvironment & Public Space
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Urban intervention at Boutros Road

  • byHabib Battah
  • Nov 5, 2015
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Following resistance to a municipal plan to create a highway that would bulldoze a historic part of Beirut,…
EEnvironment & Public Space
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Exhibit proposing coastal alternatives draws crowds

  • byHabib Battah
  • Jun 8, 2015
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Government officials like to complain that activists love making noise but never propose actual solutions. This is especially…
EEnvironment & Public Space
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Playing monopoly with the lights off

  • byHabib Battah
  • May 26, 2015
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  How does municipal planning work in Beirut? Who draws up the projects and what experts are consulted? The…
EEnvironment & Public Space
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Last chance to support Dalieh crowdfunding campaign

  • byHabib Battah
  • May 19, 2015
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Readers of this blog will be quite familiar with the campaign to save Beirut’s last undeveloped natural rocky…
EEnvironment & Public Space
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Inside the forbidden Horsh

  • byHabib Battah
  • May 15, 2015
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Last year, we were allowed inside Beirut’s only major park for just one day. This year,  (tomorrow May 16)…
EEnvironment & Public Space
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Does Beirut deserve green space?

  • byHabib Battah
  • May 8, 2015
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  Next week there is a protest to call for the opening of Beirut’s only major park, which…
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