Whenever a trailer comes out and I hear people’s responses, I’m usually the guy that breathes words of caution: that...
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What are Ecosystem Services (ESS)? According to the 2000 Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Report MA Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, Ecosystems and Human...
In the last two decades, Pixar has arguably created some of the best animated movies ever made. Some of these masterpieces are Finding Nemo, Wall-E, Monsters Inc., Ratatouille, The Incredibles, Inside out, and the Toy Story trilogy. By creating lovable characters and incorporating the latest digital technologies to take...
Women and men gathered in front of the National Museum in Beirut on December 23, 2017, to light candles in...
From the Silent Generation, Baby Boomers, Generation X, Millennials, to Generation Z, society has been obsessed with grouping people based...
Many of us have the habit of going over newspapers in the morning, which are now mostly becoming electronic. A few days ago, one headline caught my attention: “Patients often detained at hospitals in developing nations if they can’t pay bill, report says”. My eyes were out on stalks as...
The means through which political stances are expressed today are limitless. After US President Donald Trump’s recent announcement on Jerusalem,...
Every day, people effortlessly roam streets from one place to another. My errands happen to be near the American University of Beirut...
Finding out you are HIV positive is upsetting on discovery. Living in a society that scrutinizes you for it, however, is an entirely different kind of torment. The stigma behind an HIV diagnosis is not as severe as it was 30 years ago. Still, what does life as an...
Murder on the Orient Express is the latest movie adaptation of the classic murder mystery written by Agatha Christie. It...
Turning Point Books has officially launched the new anthology entitled Arab Women Voice New Realities, co-edited by Roseanne Khalaf and...
More than 130 people attended ‘Rusted Radishes’ magazine launch on Saturday, November 25, at Haven for Artists in Mar Mikhael. Rusted Radishes “is a literary and art journal housed in the American University of Beirut,” said Vicken Margossian, the Managing Editor. Created in 2011 by AUB faculty members Rima Rantisi...