Fighting for basic human rights is quite an understatement for the Beiruti in me.  From the right to health, education, water, electricity – not to mention basic women and people with challenges’ rights for equality – the list is endless and has literally become a survival roadmap for any local.  Yet one basic and global human right transcends it all: the right to breathe.  Splash and Burn and…

Splash and Burn: an art campaign taking aim at Indonesia’s palm oil industry

It’s not the sort of street art you’d expect to find on a swampy patch of degraded forest land on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. But the renowned Lithuanian artist Ernest Zacharevic spent the past 2 years selecting a group of international artists to work on an artistic response to the global palm oil industry. Scattered across different locations in Sumatra, the project is called Splash and…