Whenever a trailer comes out and I hear people’s responses, I’m usually the guy that breathes words of caution: that...
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...
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...
Many of us have the habit of going over newspapers in the morning, which are now mostly becoming electronic. A...
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 its challenges in the Middle East. Dr. Hussam Hussein, a speaker, is a post-doc research fellow at IFI, as well as a visiting fellow at the University of East Anglia...
Lebanon’s coasts have been lying under a great yellow cloud, making sure we go about our daily lives with pride...
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...