Many protesters have been photographed with their faces painted like the clown, with walls and buildings across the city also daubed with the face of the DC Comics character.
Evidently, the recently released Joker film has struck a chord with protesters in the city, who empathise with the plight of Arthur Fleck (aka the Joker) in the hostile, fragmenting society of Gotham City.
One protester said that by adopting the clown face, people in Beirut were intending to mirror Fleck's transformation from nothing to something.