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Still from "She Was Not Alone" (2020) by Iraqi director Hussein Al-Asadi.
Lynn Sheikh Moussa

Iraq’s first independent film festival launches tomorrow

With the creation of the IIFF, filmmakers, directors, actors, and other creatives will be given a much-needed channel to showcase their work.
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political refugees
Bassam Azzi

A Canadian legal perspective on Lebanon’s likely political refugees

Legal practitioners in foreign jurisdictions, Canada, are starting to see refugee claims for political protection flowing out of Lebanon.
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Beirut Today

“I’m running away from the country,” Lebanese youth say

Lebanon’s young people see no future for themselves in the country. With unemployment estimated at 40 percent and hunger on the rise amidst an economic collapse, many are looking towards immigration. Here’s some of their stories. Video by Nina Bazin...
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Canada application
Bassam Azzi

Setting the record straight on Canadian immigration matters

Be wary of misinformation and false advertisement circulating on social media and on the ground in Lebanon about the immigration process to Canada.
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Metropolis cinema returns to business
Lynn Sheikh Moussa

Metropolis Cinema returns to business with series of screenings

Metropolis, home to local film festivals and independent movie screenings, announced its indefinite closure in January due to financial difficulties.
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Period Collage
Lynn Sheikh Moussa

Fighting period poverty: 3 substitutes for disposable pads and tampons

Many women in Lebanon can no longer afford disposable pads while on their periods, often pushed to reuse them or forgo them for unsafe alternatives.
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Queerness in the Arab World Article: Photo of family on table staring at you in discontent. Reads above them: "Do you have to upset us with your feminism?"
Gabrielle Antar

Queerness in the Arab World: A tool to challenge a subversive reality?

"Normative social categories can be disrupted through everyday performances of resistance."
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Tom Nook The Crook Carrying A Bag of Bells
Laudy Issa

Animal Crossing’s Tom Nook is everything that’s wrong with Lebanon

The time has come for us to rid ourselves of our island overlord, Tom Nook.
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Maguie Hamzeh

Infodemic: Another spreading virus to fight and resist

As if the whirlpool of a global pandemic sucking the world down and drowning people in fear and frustration wasn’t enough, we are also being at risk of a dangerous “infodemic.” While we stay at home to stop the spread of COVID-19 from threatening more lives, the spread of dangerous...
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Beirut Today

Quarantunes: The local, alternative songs we’re listening to right now

Nothing’s easy about being stuck in quarantine, but these local (well, sometimes regional) tunes might help you unwind in these...
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A dog wears a mask over its mouth on a street in Beijing on February 13, 2020. Pets article on Animals Lebanon
Lynn Sheikh Moussa

COVID-19: Pets ditched on Beirut streets, animal welfare groups swamped

On misinformation and the economic hardships of both pet owners and animal welfare groups in Lebanon.
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Scientist Xinhua Yan works at Moderna in Cambridge, on Feb. 28, 2020. (David L. Ryan / Boston Globe via Getty Images) cure / medicine article
هدى الأخضر

The latest trials in search of a cure for COVID-19

The only protective measure against the virus is a vaccine, which has yet to be developed and cannot be given until it meets WHO’s criteria.
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