The NGO’s most recent initiative, the “Warm Feet Campaign”, seeks to provide cloth donations to refugee camps, with a focus on gathering shoes.
All factors considered, the film makes it clear that although incinerators may work in Denmark, this waste management strategy is practically unfeasible in Lebanon.
Beirut Today sat down with Ziad Abi Chaker on Jan. 30th to discuss his projects and was/were also invited to visit his waste-management plant in Beit Mery, where we observed how waste can be managed in a responsible and sustainable manner. 1. What have you been working on recently? Recently,...
A low-down on Lebanon's cinematic culture by expert, enthusiast, and founder of Beirut Film Society Sam Lahoud.
Your imprisonment is part and parcel of Israel’s tactic of removing any living and potential leaders for the Palestinian cause
“I am not naive to think that people will change because of campaigns or workshops or speeches or anything like that. But what I do want to do is to plant a seed. This seed will grow at its own pace and in its own way. It will not grow...
The KAFA protest is particularly significant in the context of the upcoming parliamentary elections, with many signs stating that their bearers will not be voting for “patriarchal ideology."
Debates on the origin of the trash have been sparked, and some officials stating that the garbage washed downstream from Nahr El Kalb, a recurring dumpsite since the outbreak of the crisis.
Human Rights Watch has released a campaign advocating for a major switch up in Lebanon’s handling of their waste. There is a great piling up and overflow of trash, and many local dumps have resorted to burning trash in order to make way for more. HRW deems this a human...
The American University of Beirut took part in the ninth annual Ecosystem Services Partnership (ESP) conference held in Shenzhen, China...
As state-owned investment vehicles, sovereign wealth funds play an essential role in a country’s political, economic, and financial life, chiefly...
Civil society in Lebanon has taken different forms and passed through various phases. It includes diverse political activist movements and NGOs that hope to instigate change via lobbying, protesting, and promoting policies to instigate change from within the system itself. Some examples of prominent groups that have gained fluctuant socio-political...