Residents vow to protect historic steps from developers
A protest was held last night in Mar Mikhael after residents learned that a historic passageway through their…
Sanayeh building update
Last week I posted on what seemed to be the destruction of yet another historic Beirut building, the…
Roman wall removed from Beirut Hippodrome site
It survived some 2,000 years of wars and conquest, but the wall above is now gone. Archeologists believe…
Checkered Sanayeh building to come down?
For years, an odd checkered building has been lying abandoned across the street from the Ministry of Interior…
How much money does Beirut municipality have?
Daily Star Plenty according to Walid Jumblat, who responded to the uproar this week over the municipality’s multiple…
The “non-existent” trees of Boutros
“The flora and fauna are virtually nonexistent. There are a few trees in the area, no water tables.”…
Labaki road mansion
This is one of many 19th-20th century homes that will be torn down by the controversial Boutros road…
Boutros road or Boutros park?
Source: Association for the Protection of Lebanese Heritage Activists have sent me these sketches comparing their proposal for…
Beirut Report on LBC News and elsewhere
My assault has also been covered by Al Akhbar L’Orient Le Jour: The Samir Kassir Foundation: And even…
In pictures: the Boutros highway
Here is a series of pictures just published by Save Beirut Heritage, which is campaigning to stop what…