After an introduction to the urban social context of the city, we will focus in this text on construction permits. The latters are read as a tool used to violate social norms in the construction process, as a modification in the spatial reality of buildings and the city as a whole, and as a catalyst for creating a social stigma for those who do not fit within the clientelistic network of the dominant sectarian parties in the region. We will give examples of the practices that arise as a result of construction permits, as well as the political-spatial realities that they produce.
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Local Members of Parliament Are Proposing a Parcellation Draft Law Which Sacrifices Agricultural Lands in Hermel and Younine
Proposing an accelerated law on the consolidation and parcellation of El Hermel and Younine cadastral zones in the Baalbek-El Hermel governorate.
The committee found that the proposed law requires further study and inspection, and thus decided to postpone its decision about it and to request the concerned administrative entities to provide some observations that ...