Articles

Research-Based Article

Um Yumna’s Eviction

"The suburbs: a destination for the city’s most vulnerable"

At age 14, Um Yumna made her way from West Bekaa to settle in Beirut. After over 60 years of living in the city through earthquakes and war, she, along with her family, …

Research-Based Article

A Real Estate Company Uses Renovation as a Process to Evict

Lamia Al-Sahili wrote for the Housing Monitor about the residents of a building in Ras Beirut who got evicted through a form of gentrification driven by financial investment. Read the article in Arabic.

Investigation

A Dam Is Built in ‘Paradise’

The article shows how, despite warnings of earthquakes, leaks, and the destruction of an ecosystem, Lebanon is building a 300-foot-high hydroelectric project in one of the Middle East’s most biodiverse regions. Read the …