Ecology and Sustainability

Zurayk, Rami & Gough, Anne. Control Food Control People: The Struggle for Food Security in Gaza. Institute for Palestine Studies, USA, 2013. 47 pages, with photos, maps, graphs, and appendices (total 70 pages).

The swift escalation of violence in Morocco following the tragic death of Mouchine Fikri, a fish seller in the city of al-Hoceima, shows that there’s more to food than meets the eye. For Fikri, it was an attempt to provide for his family, and for editorial cartoonist Khalid Gueddar it represents a broader public mobilisation in pursuit of civil liberties, social justice and equality, one born out of, and fuelled by, the violence meted out by public authorities.

The garbage crisis in the context of which Beirut was haunted by bad smell in the past year, is still awaiting a satisfying solution. For the time being, it is not that hot and there is an enjoyable change of air in Beirut, so it is not that obvious.

President Donald Trump declared that he would start measures to withdraw the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement, putting his country back into the “rogue state” category in international climate negotiations. 

BERLIN – If there are any geologists in millions of years, they will easily be able to pinpoint the start of the so-called Anthropocene – the geological age during which humans became the dominant influence on our planet’s environment. Wherever they look, they will find clear evidence of its onset, in the form of plastic waste.

The Dalieh of Raouche Watch Day, organized in cooperation with the Heinrich Boell Foundation, is part of a larger project aiming at celebrating Beirut’s natural and built heritage. The project builds on activists effort by the Dalieh Campaign since 2013 to protect the Dalieh of Raouche, located on the Western coast of Beirut, as a site of exceptional ecological, geological and biodiversity value, archaeological and cultural value and the only remaining natural, publicly accessible landscape in Beirut.