EEnvironment & Public Space Read More 5 minute read Painting Beirut’s slumsbyHabib BattahAug 11, 2017No comments When we hear about real estate developers working in poor neighborhoods, it often means they are tearing them…
CCulture & Heritage Read More 4 minute read Join events this week to help save Beirut heritage sitesbyHabib BattahMay 15, 2017No comments Beirut activists are fighting hard to preserve two of the city’s key heritage sites and you can support…
EEnvironment & Public Space Read More 3 minute read Beirut’s stolen coast and the growing fight to get it backbyHabib BattahNov 23, 2016One comment Activists have put together this great new video looking at how Beirut’s natural rocky coastline has basically been…
CCrime Read More 2 minute read Above the law: Top 20 illegal election postersbyHabib BattahMay 6, 2016One comment 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 Urban intervention at Boutros RoadbyHabib BattahNov 5, 2015No comments Following resistance to a municipal plan to create a highway that would bulldoze a historic part of Beirut,…
EEnvironment & Public Space Read More 2 minute read Exhibit proposing coastal alternatives draws crowdsbyHabib BattahJun 8, 2015One comment Government officials like to complain that activists love making noise but never propose actual solutions. This is especially…
EEnvironment & Public Space Read More 5 minute read Playing monopoly with the lights offbyHabib BattahMay 26, 20152 comments How does municipal planning work in Beirut? Who draws up the projects and what experts are consulted? The…
EEnvironment & Public Space Read More 2 minute read Last chance to support Dalieh crowdfunding campaignbyHabib BattahMay 19, 2015No comments Readers of this blog will be quite familiar with the campaign to save Beirut’s last undeveloped natural rocky…
EEnvironment & Public Space Read More 2 minute read Inside the forbidden HorshbyHabib BattahMay 15, 20152 comments Last year, we were allowed inside Beirut’s only major park for just one day. This year, (tomorrow May 16)…
EEnvironment & Public Space Read More 5 minute read Does Beirut deserve green space?byHabib BattahMay 8, 2015No comments Next week there is a protest to call for the opening of Beirut’s only major park, which…