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What happened to the protests in Lebanon?

  • byHabib Battah
  • May 27, 2020
It’s a question I get asked a lot lately, most recently during a radio interview I did this…
EEnvironment & Public Space
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The violent face of real estate development in Lebanon

  • byHabib Battah
  • Jun 30, 2017
An LBC camera crew has become the latest victim of violent Lebanese real estate companies seizing the country’s…
CCulture & Heritage
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Join events this week to help save Beirut heritage sites

  • byHabib Battah
  • May 15, 2017
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
Activists have put together this great new video looking at how Beirut’s natural rocky coastline has basically been…
CCulture & Heritage
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Inside Beit Beirut

  • byHabib Battah
  • May 17, 2016
Beit Beirut, Lebanon’s first memory museum, is finally getting ready to open its doors. After at least a…
EEnvironment & Public Space
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Game of Drones

  • byHabib Battah
  • Mar 11, 2016
The eight-month old battle between the Lebanese state and anti-corruption activists has taken many forms: from street protests…
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How the historic Adloun coast is becoming “Nabih Berri Port”

  • byHabib Battah
  • Jan 25, 2016
After several weeks of organizing and documentation by activists, the minister of environment has called for a halt…
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A new era for Lebanese journalism?

  • byHabib Battah
  • Dec 20, 2015
As 2015 comes to a close, it’s important to look back at the ways the Lebanese press behaved unexpectedly…
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Abou Rakhousa and the politics of poverty

  • byHabib Battah
  • Nov 10, 2015
  I’m hearing a lot of people say street protests are dying out in Beirut, though there are…
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Urban intervention at Boutros Road

  • byHabib Battah
  • Nov 5, 2015
Following resistance to a municipal plan to create a highway that would bulldoze a historic part of Beirut,…
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