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...
Women and men gathered in front of the National Museum in Beirut on December 23, 2017, to light candles in solidarity with the women murdered during the preceding week. Youmna Darwish, 22 years old, was shot on the 13th. 15 years old Nazira Al Tartousi committed suicide on the 15th....
From the Silent Generation, Baby Boomers, Generation X, Millennials, to Generation Z, society has been obsessed with grouping people based...
To be abducted from one’s home, taken to a strange underground place, and isolated from any human contact aside from...
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,...
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...
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,...
Murder on the Orient Express is the latest movie adaptation of the classic murder mystery written by Agatha Christie. It tells the tale of the murder of an American businessman on the Orient Express, after the train is stranded during a snowstorm. Who amongst the thirteen passengers on the train...