Organic Farming in Lebanon
Tarek Rabah was punk musician, today he grows cucumbers and tomatoes. Can people like him save Lebanon’s food sovereignty? Read More
Expo in Dubai
Dubai likes to market itself as a city of the future. With the Expo2020, Dubai wants to show that environmental protection and huge spectacles are compatible. Did that work? Read More
A window with too much view
There is a hole in the Beirut apartment of the al-Khodr family where aluminium once hold windows and the balcony door. Their memories are destroyed and so is their trust in the state. A report about the daily life in Beirut one month after the explosion at the port , describing how helping each other became a neccesity in face of the negligence and absence of the government.
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Rethinking Development Aid
For a long time, development aid followed this principle: Western “experts” travel to the Global South, helping with items they find useful. They forget that there is no garbage collection or playing basketball on an open field in summer brings no fun. But there is a change of thought: A delegation from Northrine Westfalia visits the Lebanese village El Kaa. They do not want to give money, but exchange experiences. How do they succeed? Read More
Fridays For Future in Lebanon
No recycling system, clogged roads, electricity produced from fossil fuels. In Lebanon, there is much to do to protect the environment and the climate. Nevertheless, few people support the Fridays For Future movement. Why is that? Read More
City planning in Beirut
How do companies sway over cities? An example from Beirut, in which a single company – owned by the Prime Minister’s family – has rebuilt the entire downtown area after the war. Read More
Lebanon’s tides of trash
Between 1,000 and 3,000 tons of plastic are estimated to be floating in the Mediterranean Sea. While Lebanon only boasts a tiny fraction of Mediterranean coastline, the country makes a pretty significant contribution to its pollution.
There have been recent efforts to clean up Beirut’s beaches, but do they symbolize a new era or are they just a government public relations campaign? Read More
Street Artists in Amman
12. July 2019
Radio
Between Amman’s beige walls I climbed on a crane with Miramar Muh’d and Suhaib Attar. Street artists give the city a colorful touch. How does the intervention in public space change people’s perception of their city? Follow me into the microcosm of Ammans Street Art: Walking the hills of Amman, painting in the hipster area of Weibdeh where art gentrifies the quarter and climb on cranes, 12 meters above the heart of the city. The German public broadcaster Deutschlandfunk published theRead More
Lebanon’s new Environment Minister
For the first time, the new Minister of the Environment in Lebanon presents a master plan for waste management. Whether this solves the problem is controversial. As the first official act, Jreissati has changed the dried plant in the office. A sign that the Environment Ministry is finally taking care of the environment? Read More
Feminist Comic Artist Rawand Issa
20. May 2019
Online
Rawand Issa draws thick lines and doesnʹt come from Mars. The 26-year-old Lebanese artist expresses what she feels through her comics. That works best with a black pen pressed firmly to the paper – Rawand often feels afraid, angry or not understood, almost as if she came from another planet.
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