Civil society in Lebanon has taken different forms and passed through various phases. It includes diverse political activist movements and...
Women and men gathered in front of the National Museum in Beirut on December 23, 2017, to light candles in...
To be abducted from one’s home, taken to a strange underground place, and isolated from any human contact aside from your captors for days on end is scary enough. Add to this the likelihood of being interrogated, tortured, abused, and possibly raped in that same place. This scenario is a...
On December 13th and 14th, the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs (IFI) hosted an academic conference titled “100...
On December 6, the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs hosted a talk on water scarcity and...
Lebanon’s coasts have been lying under a great yellow cloud, making sure we go about our daily lives with pride — to be proud for embracing a golden crow of smog. This not-so-surprising phenomenon is obviously caused by the rise of pollutants in the atmosphere. Air pollution in Lebanon has...
AUB students gathered on Tuesday at 11am in front of College Hall, the campus’ main administrative building, to show support...
In the past couple of years, Lebanon has witnessed on-and-off attempts of political reform with the last (major) one being...
Twelve patterns, twelve regions, twelve women, twelve stories. Stitching Palestine is a documentary directed by Carol Mansour and produced and researched by Muna Khalidi. In the screening at Metropolis Sofil in Beirut, Carol Mansour was hesitant to introduce the movie: “It is not a story about embroidery”, she declared. Indeed, embroidery was...
On the 21st of October , Beirut Today interviewed the charismatic and passionate Joslin Kehdy, the founder of Recycle Lebanon,...
It’s no secret that traffic in Beirut is a nightmare. With very little access to and a lack of innovation...
In the majority of societies, men and women emphasize the importance of gender equity to achieve the same opportunities for their human development. However, the reality of this desire is sometimes harder to achieve in some societies rather than others. For this reason, the United Nations has been committed to...