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Beyond Magazine Issue 20 Spring 2016

Spring fever

Words Jihan Seoud and Alia Fawaz Hurray, it’s finally spring! Gone are the cold days and early darkness, as we welcome flowers blooming, birds tweeting,...

In search of fantastic plastic

Words Alia Fawaz Wherever you look you will see something made of plastic. It’s not just the obvious food and beverage packaging but everything from...

Hitting the top notes

Words Alia Fawaz   Heartbeat is a Lebanese NGO that was founded in 2005 by a group of doctors and musicians with big hearts to help...

Thumbs up Bikfaya Biclean helps one municipality take the lead by example

Words Bassam Alkantar The Lebanese government has said that it will temporarily reopen a landfill and build three new landfills to ease an eight-month rubbish...

The man with a (sustainable) plan

words Jody Jaffe     Illustration Riad Hanna-el-daher Lebanon seems to be constantly teetering on the brink of collapse. The garbage crisis was resolved only...

The wild wilderness

Words John Gray   A trip to Antarctica may become more accessible to tourists in the future now that a commercial passenger aircraft has successfully landed...