Lebanon represents an interesting case study of the relationship between art and authoritarianism, as it has never been under the rule of a dictator or even a singular particular party. And although Lebanon did not take part in the Arab uprisings per se, like many urban centres across the region, Beirut has a history of street art that long predates the revolutions. In this chapter, I draw on fieldwork conducted in Beirut from 2009 to 2017 to consider the role of what I will call street writing in demarcating and documenting the spatial boundaries and histories of various publics. Street writing can reveal much about the spatial, political and social histories of Beirut’s myriad publics and public spaces. Where does this writing appear? Who is allowed to write, and what are they allowed to say? Locating street writing in the neighbourhoods and in-between spaces of Beirut, I argue that while such interventions in Lebanon, and especially in Beirut, might be ubiquitous, they are not always democratic nor indicators of intercommunal togetherness. While in some ways they mirror the revolutionary and community-centred ethos of street art related to the Arab revolutions, they also visually mark out different territories and trace the contours of spatially distinct publics that experience various degrees of privilege and poverty, access and denial, and mobility and stasis.