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In the context of reading the urban transformations that Lebanon is witnessing as cross-border transformations generated by capitalist governments adopting neoliberal policies, and aiming to reshape neighborhoods and land into a commodity in …
During the months of March and April 2021, 27 reports of eviction threats were received by the #Housing_Monitor, including one eviction notice. The reports were mostly located in Beirut and its suburbs, out …
Hours after the port explosion devastated Beirut, the governor, Judge Marwan Abboud, appeared tearfully on television, declaring that about 300,000 people had become homeless in the Lebanese capital. With this news, individuals, organizations, …
Since the 1990s, the state has ignored the urgent need for a policy that addresses the multifaceted housing crisis. Instead, the state has adopted a unilateral approach of offering loans for home ownership. …
The mainstream racist discourse is not only related to insulting speech, but rather translates practices that become normal and normalized, making the lives of refugees almost impossible, and their housing in cities and …
Throughout the first two months of year 2021, 88 cases have been reported, relating to housing vulnerability affecting 237 individuals, almost half of which were children. These reports included 36 single women threatened …
In 2020, the crime of killing Joseph Tawk (29 years) with four bullets, shook Bcharre in 2020. Due to the fact that the suspect is of Syrian nationality, men attacked residents of Syrian …
More than half of the population in the main Lebanese cities experience extremely weak housing tenure status; thus constituting the category of tenants constantly at risk of eviction, a condition generated and maintained by the governing legal and urban framework.This study carves a reading of rental practices in conjunction with a steep currency devaluation, while looking at how systemic state practices play out in times of crisis, and in the context of a neoliberal economy.
In the aftermath of the Egyptian Revolution and on its 10th anniversary, we have witnessed the succession of four governments, each of which tried – in terms of the form of its rule …
