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Urban Studies & Politics | Professor at the American University of Beirut | Research Lead @BeirutUrbanLab

Beirut & Arab region

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2 months

Happy to share this storymap recounting how #nonprofits organized to rebuild the neighborhoods affected by the #Beirut Port #blast , against many odds, and how some also contributed to advancing horizons of #commoning , even imperfectly.

@BeirutUrbanLab

Beirut Urban Lab

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Check the new story map by The Beirut Urban Lab and @TPILebanon examining the role of nonprofits in the urban recovery process in the aftermath of the Beirut Port Blast—a component of a research project funded by the IDRC.

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Mona Harb

19 days

Urbiciding Dahiya 🧵 Dahiya is the place name for 4 municipal territories: Ghobeyri, Haret Hreik, Bourj Brajneh, & Mrayjeh-Tahweeta-Laylaki. It also includes sections of the municipal areas of Chiyah, Hadath & Choueifat. Map by Issa al-Hajj, AUB-MUPP 2019 graduate.

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Mona Harb

4 years

today we fixed the @BeirutUrbanLab so we can all work and organize to help rebuild our city. onward, like 2006, with colleagues, researchers, activists and students. beirut and beirut people: we love you.

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Dahiya is only a suburb in its name. It's an integral part of Beirut--once you read Beirut as a polycentric agglomeration extending from Jounieh to Khaldeh up to Hazmieh. The urbicide of Dahiya by Israel's killing machine enabled by Western powers, is also that of Beirut.

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Mona Harb

3 years

I am finding it very, very difficult to teach. Such despair and disillusionment in the eyes of students. Or perhaps I am projecting mine. Or maybe I see it more because they're masked and their eyes are the only things I can read. Or it's both. It's just really heavy.

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2 years

Why do rich Arabs fund northern universities and centers that already have large endowments instead of supporting arts, humanities and social sciences centers in Arab-based unis? Genuine question.

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Mona Harb

26 days

i disagreed on so much, especially after 2009, but this is a huge loss, the sense of defeat is unbearable, i carry immense sadness & deep rage. my condolences to all those who believed in the cause of the resistance, in lebanon & beyond. may we be wise and dwell in solidarity.

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Mona Harb

5 years

Classmates emigrating or changing schools, my kid is starting to experience the heartbreaking separation from childhood friends that will define her emotional growth, just like her parents did in the mid-1980s. Lubnan, you're such a hopeless, hopeless mess.

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Mona Harb

4 years

I miss being able to catch beauty in Beirut. It's just gone. I can only see angst, pain, poverty, injustice, fear, insecurity. Even the bougainvilleas & the sunsets don't have the same effect. The collapse is bringing out all the ugliness that we shoved under.

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19 days

My point: each municipal territory in Dahiya includes dozens of neighborhoods dense w (contested) histories, palimpsests of memories, & multiple ranges of socio-spatial practices connecting human &non-human things. Each bombing erases thousands of these. This is what I mourn.

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Mona Harb

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Israel is making the perceived sectarian geographies of Beirut and Lebanon key determinants in their ongoing war. Yet, these geographies are much more heterogeneous and dynamic than mainstream and essentializing media analysis.

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Mona Harb

3 years

(too many) Foreign-based students visiting Beirut during summer for a week: "Hi Mona, I know X & I want to see you tomorrow for 15mn (eno before I head to the beach) so you fix my (non-)RQ & give me your data (walaw) so I write my MA." (hek bala please) Every. Freaking. Summer.

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For the first time in my life, I paraded for Independance with my daughter and other cool moms and their kids. Independence from sectarianism, patriarchy, inequality, injustice, authoritarianism, and predatory urbanism. It was fabulous. #LebanonProtests #الاستقلال_الحقيقي

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4 years

Yes, great ppl are leaving, but great ppl are staying. Many of them are initiating or consolidating inspiring initiatives. It's bleak &tough already, pls spare us w apocalyptic speculations abt the country's depletion of great ppl. It doesn't help cope w all the crises. Thx.

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Mona Harb

3 years

the rare outings with friends are now like funerals: mourning the loss of places that have shut down, of friends forced into exile or poverty, and of lives and futures that can longer be. never been surrounded with so much anxiety, despair and helplessness.

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Mona Harb

5 years

Yesterday I told my child about how in 1984 my class got split in two--Muslims students in West Beirut, Christians in East Beirut, and we discovered which sect each was. We were 14. We used to send each other letters with our teachers who commuted across the demarcation line.

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Mona Harb

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heart-wrenching, infuriating, cannot fathom watching jnoob being invaded by zionists again. hateful expansionist supremacist colonizers.

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Mona Harb

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Israel's war on Lebanon

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Mona Harb

5 years

USJ lawyers holding sessions explaining the Lebanese Constitution and demonstrating how there's no possibility for Nasrallah's alleged void فراغ ✊🏽 #لبنان_ينتفص

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Mona Harb

5 years

Tenured! I am thankful to the amazing recognition from inspiring scholars & colleagues who will know who they are 🙏🏽, to the support of super friends @lara_deeb , Nadya Sbaiti & @mona_fawaz 🥂🐉 & I am blessed to have @samiatallah1 @nadimelkak & Yaz in my life ❤️🧿

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Mona Harb

2 years

Beirut and Lebanon lost one of its most genuine and visionary urbanists yesterday: Habib Debs is gone, leaving behind a fantastic legacy of urban projects that made his colleagues and students able to imagine a different urbanity, and that lives on through them.

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Mona Harb

5 years

I sent the title of my talk to a workshop I got invited to: "Refugees as City-Makers: Lessons fm Beirut" &asked: "Anything else needed?" They sent the program today. My talk's title: "Refugees as City-Makers: Lessons fm Beirut: Anything else needed?" I think I'll keep it as is.

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Mona Harb

2 years

@HadiNasrallah and how does this deny the protests? your video mainly shows that there are groups who disagreee with protestors. great: societies are plural by definition. why don't you acknowledge that there are opposition groups contesting the ruling regime and claiming their due rights?

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Mona Harb

4 years

much more accurate pic than so many that circulate about the city.

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Jenny Gustafsson

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Beirut 2020

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4 years

wow, she insults him and he doesn't even flinch... i think he didn't get it. hey, hela ho, bahdaletak.

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Mona Harb

5 years

Salamat to young people living with their families in this lockdown, who are struggling to find some privacy, & have lost access to spaces and to interactions with peers that helped them cope with stress and uncertainty. Ain't fair, ain't easy. Wishing you strength & patience 💕

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Mona Harb

3 years

I very much enjoyed this conversation with the fantastic @Jad_Ghosn , thank you for providing a platform to speak about urbanism, politics and the public good in Lebanon.

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Jad Ghosn

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الأستاذة الجامعية منى حرب : ما هو التنظيم المدني غير المعلن في لبنان وأي مصالح يخدم - الحلقة ٣٥ 👇 For the Podcast version search for “Reflections with Jad Ghosn” on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify and Anghami.

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Mona Harb

4 years

In decaying Hamra, the little gem of a chocolate shop Nougatini is still surviving and soothing people's palates and hearts with its heavenly tastes.

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Mona Harb

4 years

So happy & proud to announce the launch of the @BeirutUrbanLab website: --a place seeking to advance change thru urban thinking & experimenting, grouping wonderful colleagues & young, inspiring researchers. Check it out & don't hesitate getting in touch.

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Beirut Urban Lab

The Beirut Urban Lab is a collaborative, interdisciplinary research space. Locally anchored, the Lab investigates historical and contemporary urbanization from our position in the global south

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Mona Harb

4 years

This country is beauty and the beasts.

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4 years

People inviting me to write and I have absolutely no words, only screams and tears.

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Mona Harb

4 years

The city is becoming this mix of increasing precarity & insecurity, interspersed with moments of transient beauty (corniche walks, sunsets, bougainvilleas sights, etc). Every day, we lose a familiar place or an urban experience. Feels like collective urban grief.

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Mona Harb

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رجعوا التلاميذ الاجانبب (معظمهم بيض) اللي بيحكو معنا كأنّا موظفين عندن: اعطيني داتا، خبّريني كيف بعمل fieldwork، اعطيني معلومات صرلك عشرين سنة خمّرتيها، انا واصل اليوم وبدي شوفك بكر، اكيد فاضية وبتتمني تحكيني انا من جامعة فلان واستاذي فلان، ما قريت شغلك، انتي حكي.

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Mona Harb

4 years

I took a walk today and Beirut offered me beautiful encounters. This most fantastic ode to the city on a wall in Ain el Mreisseh--if anyone know the author, please tell me. "لنصنع مدينة لنا"

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Mona Harb

19 days

Before the civil war, Dahiya was referred to by the names of its municipalities. Today, some refer to it by its administrative name: Sahel al-Matn al Janoubi. Dahiya's naming process is a story I wrote about. Here's a simple version published in 2009.

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4 years

thanks so much to everyone who texted, dm-ed, emailed, and checked. my family and i are okay, lhamdillah. busy helping friends and kids cope. still processing the rest. no words.

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4 years

من اين لكم كلّ هذا؟ 🧐 للمزيد:

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Mona Harb

3 years

it's already cyclamens & hummayda season at AUB!

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Mona Harb

5 years

While I've somehow accepted that our little savings are monopoly money, I am furious at how our parents--who already endured a civil war, and so much loss and trauma, are going to have to deal with this crisis at this stage of their lives.

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Mona Harb

1 year

The only thing I take some solace in is being among people who have a clear moral compass re: colonizer/colonized, murderer/victim. I cannot imagine how expats are experiencing this war amidst a majority of hypocrite supremacists.

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Mona Harb

1 year

Mapping and visualizing the Israeli war on South Lebanon--by the critical mapping team of the Beirut Urban Lab. Follow for regular updates.

@BeirutUrbanLab

Beirut Urban Lab

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1 year

Timeline and Map of Escalation along Lebanon’s souther Border (Oct. 7 - Nov. 9)

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Mona Harb

5 years

Who's thinking about working moms (and some dads) who need to manage their kids' online homework? And who's thinking of the new inequalities these systems are creating between kids who have access to technology, and those who don't?

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Mona Harb

19 days

Dahiya also includes many informal settlements, two of which are connected to the Palestinian camps of Bourj Brajneh (Raml el-Ali), and Sabra/Chatila. They're Ouzai, Jnah/Zahra (Bir Hassan), Horch el-Katil, Hayy el-Sellom. Map by Issa al-Hajj, 2019.

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Mona Harb

3 years

I really have nothing to say anymore. It's like it's all been said and done. And we're just here helplessly watching and experiencing the demise. And trying to do some work and mostly cope.

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Mona Harb

4 years

شو حلوين بنايات وسط البلد وقت بصير فيهن ناس عالبلاكين...

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layal h (ليال حداد)🇱🇧🇵🇸

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بيروت قبل قليل (إذا حدا بيعرف اسم المصور يا ريت يقللي)

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5 years

I am loving cars and highways right now 😄✊🏽 #لبنان_يثور

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Mona Harb

4 years

Walls and fences of Beirut speak loudly. "Hope" says this one graffiti. "F*** hope. How do we heal?" responds the other.

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2 years

We're finally back in our renovated building!

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Mona Harb

3 years

Discrimination against veiled women in Lebanon is widespread and extends across neighborhoods, towns & cities, & is also Muslim-led. Many stores & banks refuse to hire veiled women. See the great work of Ali Kassem (now post-doc at Edinburgh) on this.

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Mona Harb

3 years

The high voter turnout and the high number of votes is such good news today. From syndicates to municipalities to parliament, organizing for change is a long but worthy journey.

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Mona Harb

5 years

The president is obviously not well and incapacitated. He's barely able to read the speech, even pre-recorded. Who's governing in Baabda? Hela Ho? You cannot sustain this mockery. #لبنان_ينتقض

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Mona Harb

3 years

Today, I had an online advising session with a student who was queuing for gas. By the end of our 20mn meeting, she almost reached target so I congratulated her for her small victory of the day, and we laughed.

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Mona Harb

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Ppl in Leb. are living similarly to how their parents/grandparents lived civil & occupation times. Stuff is "normal" but war is ongoing, & the "normal" is made of war-related events: tayaran, killings, bombings, ecocide, fake news, rumors, fear...

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3 years

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Mona Harb

3 years

I always feel that I can't praise too much because he's my son, but this article is so informative and very insightful, and I can't but highly recommend it. So many pull-quotes in there, I didn't know which to pick. Excellent piece by @NadimElkak 💕

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Mona Harb

3 years

as @OmarTamo19 said, we feel happy we're "only" losing 70% of the money not 90% and we found one medicine out of ten after touring five pharmacies. and we waited *only* 20mn to fill some gas. new absurdities of collapsing everyday life in lebanon.

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3 years

Horch Beirut, hanging in there too.

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Mona Harb

4 years

ran away

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4 years

Such a beautiful day. The light is incredible after the rain. It feels good and fresh, and for a few seconds, you get that illusive sentiment that things are okay.

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Mona Harb

5 years

Amazing photo of old Beirut's airport which runways' have structured Ramlet el-Baida's urban fabric (ie around current Spinneys). See all this sand?! Photo source: unknown, shared via Beirut Urban Lab colleagues Dana Mazraani & Abir Zaatari.

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Mona Harb

4 years

كتير وجع مقتل لقمان سليم الي بيربطني في علاقة عائلية كتير قديمة من خلال صداقة امّهاتنا العميقة. الستّ سلمى مرشاق، امّ لقمان وهادي ورشا، انسانة بحبّها كتير وما قدرانه اتخيّل كمية الوجع اللي دخل قلبها اليوم. شو هالاغتيال الرخيص، وعلى شو؟! الله يصبرك يا ست سلمى وكل العزاء للعائلة.

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Mona Harb

4 years

Our reflections on the criminal blast that destroyed our city and its people, and the ways to recovery. WIth @mona_fawaz , Howayda al-Harithy and Ahmad Gharbieh @BeirutUrbanLab

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Beirut Urban Lab - The Beirut Blast: A Week On

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2 years

هلّق مع كلّ شي في humanitarian aid اجا عالبلد، ليش ما في ادوية؟ ليش @firassabiad ما بفسّرلنا ليش ما عم يعطي اولوية يأمّن ادوية لمرضى السرطان والامراض المعتصية ببلاش؟ سؤال جدّي.

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4 years

"(Resilience) is the rhetorical &symbolic symptom of the normalization of injustice" says Sara Mourad. We have developed & internalized so many survival tactics in this wretched country, celebrated as resilience... but they're just sad coping mechanisms.

AFTERSHOCK - Rusted Radishes

Photograph by the author One of the biggest conundrums of the Beirut explosion is probably the burden of knowing how to live in its aftermath. What words are there to describe what has happened? What...

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Mona Harb

4 years

terrorists:

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KI Design

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🇮🇱 ✈ #IAF Israeli Air Force warplanes makes mock raids over #Lebanon 🇱🇧

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2 years

I have a very dark feeling. They won't take loss. We know that too well.

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Mona Harb

4 years

AUB bench amidst lockdown and climate change be like:

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Mona Harb

4 years

my life has been such an exhausting race and struggle to reach somewhere nice and serene, and now it's everything but.

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Mona Harb

3 years

Mabrouk @NadimElkak , winner of the Salma Merchak and Mohsen Slim award for an AUB graduate in Sociology 👏🏽 Life makes things happen in bittersweet ways sometimes 💕

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Mona Harb

4 years

This criminal blast has shattered many of us in incredible ways as it exposed the fragilities our lives &livelihoods hv bn founded upon, obliterated our sense of agency &the shreds of hope that enabled us to imagine other futures, &disconnected us from the city in literal ways.

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Mona Harb

4 years

Bye bye LCPS, @samiatallah1 saved u fm bankruptcy &took u to unimaginable new horizons, connecting fantastic people together, &producing groundbreaking work referenced all over, that still informs so much research today. Unfortunately, I can't say his legacy will be safeguarded.

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4 years

The report @mona_fawaz and I co-authored for UNDP is now online, check it out!

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Our latest #LeaveNoOneBehind report argues that people’s recovery, especially the most marginalized, must be prioritized over physical reconstruction in response to the #BeirutBlast . See full report here 👉

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Dahiya used to be home to a sizable Maronite community that was forcefully & violently displaced during the civil war. They used to dwell in Haret Hreik & Mrayjeh. (Former president Michel Aoun is from Hara.)

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Israel's war on south Lebanon--tho numbers have little meaning these days: *494 persons killed, incl. 93 civilians (20 medics) *17M sq.m of burned agricultural lands *90,000 displaced *1,880 totally destroyed homes *7,000 partially damaged homes *220 damaged economic units

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4 years

Will men ever stop discussing how they like women's bodies to be or not to be? 🙄 (rhetorical question) حلّو عن سما ربّنا!

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Nadim Koteich

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@DimaSadek I disagree. They are a private beach and they are entitled for their own rules. I personally won’t go if they allow veiled women

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Phone call fm . @saadhariri voting office today: -You vote in Beirut 2, yes? Will you vote for Sheikh Saad? -What’s his program? -... -I vote for a program, you know, so what’s his? -... well, er, you know... -No, not really, maybe you go check and call me back? -Ok, bye.

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2 years

so after crash-learning revolutions, economics, pandemics, vaccines, nitrate-ammonium-journeys, failed states, inverters, polycrises, disasters, now onto seismology.

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4 years

ميشال المرّ رمز لكيفية الاستفادة من القانون لتسليع البناء والمدينة... من طابق المرّ لقانون استثنائي لبناء cap sur ville... ارثه خراب البيئة المدينية وتسخير الزبائنية وخدمة الزعيم بالبلديات. ارثه غياب الاخلاقيات ومبدأ المنفعة العامة بالعمل السياسي والانمائي.

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2 years

Such amazing few minutes though. Felt much safer to imagine him speaking truth to power in this parliament...

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5 years

birds in ras beirut are having the best conversations, and my deep question of the day is: were they always talking like that, and we just heard them, or they started when humans went in lockdown? 🐦🌳

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Mona Harb

19 days

Most informal settlements in Dahiya have a long urban history that starts in the 1950s, and expands in the 1970s, with the colonization of Palestine and rural-urban migration to Beirut. See @mona_fawaz & @PeillenIsabelle reference work on this:

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Mona Harb

3 years

Question: How interested would you be attending City Debates 2022 on planning within disasters and dysfunctional urban governance featuring @BeirutUrbanLab 's urban recovery work after the port blast as a main case-study? (it'd be in hybrid format)

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Mona Harb

4 years

سيأتي يوم تتحاسبو كلّكن على اجرامكم بحقّ الطبيعة والمدينة والحيّز العام: ستسقط منظومة القتلة والمنافقين وسيظهر الحقّ. عندها لن ينفع البكاء ولن يجدي الّا حبسكم. هكذا نعود الى انتاج دولة فرّغتوها من معناها. MH

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Gebran Bassil

4 years

سيأتي يوم تطالب فيه الدولة اللبنانية ومعها كل اهالي بيروت وجزين وصيدا والشوف وبعبدا وعاليه بتمويل سدّ بسري؛ سيسقط النكد السياسي وستظهر الحاجة للمياه؛ عندها لن ينفع البكاء، ولن يجدي الّا تأمين قرض جديد لنعود الى نفس السدّ وبنفس الشروط، ولكن بكلفة أعلى بكثير... هكذا أفلسوا لبنانGB

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Mona Harb

4 years

Lubnan is a desolate fragmented landscape of dilapidated old apartment bldgs, islands of gated high-end buildings/villas/compounds, expanded/dense slums, vacancies, patches of hopeful natural protected areas & agricultural lands. So much that can be done to turn this around. If..

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Mona Harb

5 years

day be like: listen to mohammad zbeeb, i will not give in to despair, try to work, eat chocolate, try to understand some of the nerds' tweets, eat more chocolate, try to work, read rosalie berthier, i will not give in to despair, try to work, eat even more chocolate, despair 😩

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Mona Harb

4 years

that's @MSFEA_AUB dean celebrating graduating engineers, architects, graphic designers, and other grads: an awesome human 😍

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Mona Harb

4 years

"we seek international help" 🤔 i thought the issue was we have too much of it?

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Mona Harb

2 years

Mark your calendar for Wed.8 February & join us at AUB 3:30-7pm for the presentation of @BeirutUrbanLab & @TPI_lebanon joint research on the governance and actors of the blast disaster --a project co-led by @samiatallah1 , @samizog & I & funded by @IDRC_CRDI , cc @elrifai_r

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Mona Harb

4 years

when in doubt: jbeil's energy

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Mona Harb

4 years

Now they'll bring the vaccine thru the private sector and make money out of it and once again, vulnerable groups will be excluded and inequalities will aggravate further.

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Mona Harb

2 years

كيف بدّو الواحد يشتغل ويجتمع عادي اليوم؟؟

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Mona Harb

8 months

And so City Debates starts, in defiance of ongoing war, genocide, and pain, & in community with people struggling for just presents and futures.

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Mona Harb

5 years

I lost my best friends then. And we left our beautiful green school campus in Bchamoun, and started a journey of relocations. How many deep-rooted traumas do we all carry, and how many more will we and our children still carry... #lebanesecivilwar #45thanniversary

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Mona Harb

5 years

Who knew Jal el-Dib was more than a billboard highway?! ✊🏽

@TrellaLB

Imad Bazzi

5 years

جل الديب قبل قليل #لبنان_ينتفض

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Mona Harb

5 years

I swear it's as if nature's intensity this spring is laughing at us with its utter beauty and dizzying perfume, while we struggle to protect our livelihoods and health.

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Mona Harb

3 years

18 months later, I returned to a physical classroom (a studio actually--advising final year Architecture students),& gosh it feels good, odd, déjà vu, not the same--rather disorienting, somehow a fictitious sense of normalcy. But being with the students is just great.

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Mona Harb

4 years

ما في كلمات عم تطلع منّي غير مسبّات من العيار التقيل. ما عم بقدر احكي الّا سبّ.

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Mona Harb

3 years

Cheers to the most difficult teaching semester of my career. May it never happens again.

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Mona Harb

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Bourj & Mrayjeh are the oldest towns. They include many one-storey houses w a front porch & a water fountain, surrounded by a garden full of trees where families & neighbors gathered--an architecture reflecting an urban lifestyle lost w urbanization & financialization of land.

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Mona Harb

3 years

school starts on monday! full days! everyday! let me be in denial about fuel, salaries, gas, tuition fees, covid, etc! i will have my life baaack! 💃🏽

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