Are there any connections between the movement against solidere to other social struggles both inside and outside of Lebanon?

Is the movement against Solidere united with an aim and general demands?

Do the affected people (i.e. the replaced families) themselves participate?

Is there a particular party or organization as a supporter or head of the movement?

Is there any movement against Solidere? How are they organized?

Is there any link between political or religious belonging and the opinion about Solidere?

How much percent of the population do not agree with the way Solidere rebuilt the downtown?

Who is profiting most from the Souks?

Did you ever got lost in the Souks?

Who pays the security guys at Beirut Souks?

Is the new shopping mall called Beirut Souks owned by government and gets rent from the shop owners/brands or do they own the shops themselves?

What the difference between the two kinds of spelling (Suq/Souk)?

What is the social and economical meaning of downtown in nower days?

Who pays the private security in downtown?

How much is the rent / purchase price per square meter at downtown?

Is there more commercial premises or more housing in reconstructed Beirut downtown?

Who owns the land and the buildings at reconstructed downtown?

What kind of people are going to downtown to live there/ to work there/ to go shopping?

How often do you frequent Beirut downtown? What are you doing there?

How would you describe the current appearance of beirut downtown?

Do you see any parallels between urban transformation in other cities in the world and the development in Beirut?

Do you think there is a connection between Neoliberalism and the reconstruction of downtown?

Are there any people you would blame personally for doing something wrong with the reconstruction?

Did Solidere show any attendance to discuss with the population?

Has there been a public discussion about the critiques on the reconstruction?

What are the main critiques on the reconstruction in general?

What do you dislike about the way of reconstruction?

What architectural influences can you notice in downtown?

What was the concept behind the "Solidere way" of reconstruction?

How many architecturally valuable have been demolished? From what ages?

Do you think there could have been another way of dealing with the destroyed area, like renovate the buildings instead of demolishing them?

Did you hear the noises of the construction sites in Beirut downtown?

What happened to the scree material of the deconstruction?

Have the people of Beirut been aware of what happens in downtown at the beginning of the deconstruction?

How many workers have been employed on the construction side? Have they been Lebanese?

How much percent of downtown have been demolished during the fightings and how much did Solidere?

When did the first digger roll into downtown?

Did the ones, who were paid out, buy buildings or houses at other places?

Has there been any resistance against the expropriation of land in downtown?

Have there been extra regulations about the expropriation of land especially made for Solidere?

Is there a law for expropriation in Lebanon?

Was there any governmental or other pressure on the prior landlords to sell the land?

Was it obvious for the prior landlords, that they are not making a good deal with selling the land to Solidere?

Did the landlords of downtown all negotiate personally with Solidere or has there been a lobby or something similar?

Have the prior landlords still been in Beirut after the civilwar?

How did the transfer of the landholding work?

Has there been solidarity among the affected and also from the other Beiruti population?

Has there been resistance against the replacement?

Where did the replaced people go to?

How much was the compensation payings? Who paid?

Who was responsible for the replacement of the people,which lived in the ruins of downtown?

Who lived in the half destroyed downtown after the fightings stopped?

Do you think there could have been an alternative way of starting the reconstruction without foreign resources?

Has there been any political of economical intervention of IMF or Worldbank in the developments?

Has it been obvious for the general public what Solidere is planning and has there been a public discussion about it?

Which foreign investors took part in the project and since what point?

What was the role of Rafiq al-Hariri in the process of planning and implementation, both economically and politically?

Has there been an alternative to Solidere, like other companies, which applied for the reconstruction project?

Was there a common consent about starting with the reconstruction directly after the end of the fightings?

What happened to the shop owners during the civil war?

What was the social and economic meaning of pre-civilwar Beirut downtown and especially the suq?

By whom was the pre-civilwar downtown frequented?