An overview of the modern urban history of Saida, Lebanon, reveals that the biggest changes to the city occur during times of crisis. During such critical times, incoming capital and aid facilitates the implementation of major infrastructural projects and urban plans. Such urban projects create ..
Lyne Jabri
Lyne Jabri is an urbanist/architect. In 2013, she was one of the founders of LilMadina Initiative, which is a professional, research, and activist platform advocating for more socially sensitive and environmental planning practices in the city of Saida, Lebanon. She holds a Master’s of Urbanism and Strategic Planning from KU Leuven where she wrote her thesis on water and urbanism in Saida in 2012. She has started a PhD at KU Leuven in 2019 and is currently researching urban activism in conditions of clientelism through an action/research methodology. She previously worked with UNRWA on the reconstruction project of Nahr el Bared Refugee camp.