Last Thursday, pictures and videos emerged of an old building's facade collapsing in Burj Hammoud. Fortunately, the cracks were spotted ahead of time, leaving the municipal police time to evacuate the residents and set up a security perimeter, or what looks like one since there were still cars parked on the streets. This is one of several thousands of old buildings in Beirut that hasn't been maintained in years due to negligence and the never-ending…

"Beirut port in a storm over corruption": That was the title of an article dated October 2012 when Al Jadeed reported on what it called rampant corruption cases at the Port’s Customs Department, saying it has deprived the treasury of hundreds of millions of U.S. dollars in revenues each year. One way that was proposed to help fight corruption at the port and customs agencies in general was introducing new scanners or at least making…