#Daliyeh and the ongoing struggle for #Beirut's #public_spaces
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A young boy holding up a sign during a protest highlighting the sealing off and eviction of Daliyeh’s fishermen during one of the earlier protests on October 2013. (Photo: Marwan Tahtah) A young boy holding up a sign during a protest highlighting the sealing off and eviction of Daliyeh’s fishermen during one of the earlier protests on October 2013. (Photo: Marwan Tahtah)
Daliyeh, a small peninsula sprouting from the Raouche neighborhood close to Beirut’s renowned Pigeons’ Rock, is being sealed off from the public. Already, security guards are on site and steel poles – the first sign of a planned fence – have been struck into the ground. A luxurious hotel resort is expected to be built on the land, a resort likely (...)
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