Ouzville, formerly known as Ouzai; a very colorful suburb of Beirut, Lebanon - stock photo

In Beirut's southern Ouzai (الأوزاعي) neighbourhood houses and walls are painted painted as part of the 'Ouzville' project. The plan and project started in 2015 to beautify the Ouzai area with street art by international and local artists and thus improving the living conditions in the neighbourhood.The neighborhood was commonly known as an extremely poor area, a slum. A ghetto, known as a Hezbollah stronghold.