While the regional conflict sees a major escalation, with the US and UK hitting targets in Yemen, strikes from Lebanon maintain a steady pace with a close-to-border range, and Israeli strikes begin to re-intensify. More ➡ bit.ly/border-escalat…

Save the Date🗓️  After the unforeseen postponement, the Beirut Urban Lab , MSFEA  and IJURR.org are happy to announce the new dates of the 20th edition of City Debates. -- Look out for the event program and other details soon!

Hi Professor! Current Harvard Law student here & Palestinian. Hate to take the bait, but I do want to breakdown why this article is inaccurate & intellectually dishonest. Thread:

Over the last two weeks, Hezboallah struck its new farthest strike from the southern border (49 kms) during a drone countering operation, with Israel following suit by targeting the City of Baalbak (88kms) More ➡️ bit.ly/border-escalat…

A new analysis of over 7,000 incidents in the West Bank reveals the dire need for greater scrutiny of settler-colonial violence across all of Palestine. Read the report on the following Link: bit.ly/westbankviolen…

Join us TODAY at the Dialogues on Housing in Lebanon where we will be launching the Beirut Housing Vacancy report “Housing Vacancy in Beirut 2023: Drivers and Trends.”

My letter to the 2024 Athens World Poetry Festival after canceling my invitation: Dear Sir/Madam, This is Mosab Abu Toha and this email is about the shocking news that my invitation to take part in the 2024 Athens World Poetry Festival got canceled. This news was relayed to me

Our latest data records the greatest number of strikes from Lebanon on a single day with the deepest average distance into Occupied Palestine. The escalation on July 6 came in response to the assassination of a senior Hezbollah commander by Israel three days earlier.

As part of tracking the urbicide in Gaza, BUL is launching ‘People and Places’ map documenting some of the disruptions of socio spatial practices, waves of forced displacement as well as acts of everyday resistance by Gazans. For More ➡️bit.ly/3LwRsxT

Mapping Israel’s terror on South Beirut 99 “evacuation orders” for over 150 buildings in a month have targeted residential and commercial urban neighborhoods. Read More on -beiruturbanlab.com/en/Details/200…

Mapping Israel’s terror on South Beirut. 109 “evacuation orders” for over 160 buildings in a month have targeted residential and commercial urban neighborhoods. Read More on – beiruturbanlab.com/en/Details/200…

Since October 17th, 10% of Tyre's built environment, amounting to around 1,100 buildings, has received evacuation threats. Read more on Mapping Israeli Announced Strikes on Lebanon ⬇️ beiruturbanlab.com/en/Details/201…

44 thousand homes are empty in Beirut but none to spare for the displaced? The Beirut Urban Lab argues for a public authority to recover abandoned buildings as temporary housing for displaced families. Read more beiruturbanlab.com/en/Details/201…

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That thing that binds indigenous people to their land. Makes 100s of thousands of Lebanese make their way back to their destroyed villages in the the South from the early hours of this morning. That makes Palestinians stay in northern Gaza despite the slaughter. The alien

Save the Date 📌 For the 21st edition of City Debates "Co-map, Re-map, Un-map: Collective, Exploratory, and Radical Cartographies” April 14 – 16, 2025 at Architecture Lecture Hall (ALH), AUB Join us for an outstanding showcase of scholars, researchers, and practitioners

City Debates 2025 Detailed Program out now! Join us and our speakers on April 14–16 at the Architecture Lecture Hall American University of Beirut for an interrogation of critical cartographies and their impact on our world today. The conference coincides with AUB's second Palestine Week and

Our book talks are back! Join our book launch and research talk with co-editor and author Nadi Abu Saada, in collaboration with Palestine Week Arab Modern: Architecture and the Project of Independence Thursday April 24, 2025 at 5:30PM Architecture Lecture Hall (ALH),