Pre-work links
Batoul Yassine Conversation 1> Business in Karantina as a form of vital recovery
Alaa Shehabi Conversation 4> Citizens Assemly webiste
https://www.relief-centre.org/citizen-assembly
The final video on the CA with subtitles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAvMOiyQId4
Joana Dabaj Conversation 1> No Pre-Work material
Conversation 3 Pre-Work Material> March 2021- R3 Document
Diala Makki Convesation 4> Diala_Makki_Conversation 4
Elizabeth Saleh and Rita Jarrous> Article Link: https://archivingwaste.blogspot.com/2021/03/the-citys-life-force-waste-work-in_10.html
Mona El Hallak Conversation 4> RELIEF Presentation_Mona El Hallak_AUB Neighborhood Initiative
Nikolay Mintchev> Discourse of prosperity and the Future of Lebanon’s prosperity
Nikolett Puskas Conversation 2> thumbnail
Muzna Al Masri> Conversation 2 Entanglements
Public Works Preparatory Material Links (for Conversation 1 Vital City)
Main Material:
Housing Monitor Video: https://www.facebook.com/publicworksstudio/videos/230294718822860
Housing Monitor Site Link (though most material in Arabic)
Sanaa Video (PW is adding English subtitles, so will share that once sent, promised before March 7th): https://housingmonitor.org/en/content/story-sanaa-and-living-mar-mikhael
The L’Orient Article (also provided as a separate word document): https://today.lorientlejour.com/article/1247892/how-to-avoid-further-gentrification-in-the-aftermath-of-the-beirut-port-explosion.html
Additional Material:
https://www.facebook.com/publicworksstudio/posts/3567468473289447
https://www.facebook.com/publicworksstudio/posts/3295796390456658
Sana’a story video
I am a secondary school teacher and have been teaching for 42 years
My salary now, when I go to retirement, is $2,000
I can’t get a loan or make ends meet
What will this compensation do for me? It will do nothing
The house I live in is 60 years old
It has no central heating, no parking, nothing
How much will my rent be according to the new rent law?
$1200 per month
Imagine, $1200 for a house with these specifications
I am a secondary school teacher, and have been working all my life,
The house costs me two thirds of my salary
What is one expected to be?
To be able to stay in an apartment like this
With the stipulations of the old rent law, they threw us out of our homes
They simply threw us out and now they are throwing us out.
“Go back to your village”. Maybe this has become my village
I am expected to cut all my relationships here and leave?
Is a house a chicken coop!!
* Video link (now in Arabic but version with English subtitles should be sent Monday): https://housingmonitor.org/en/content/story-sanaa-and-living-mar-mikhael