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Hanin Haidar Ahmad

Jina al Dar: Empowering women and girls

Jina al Dar, an initiative by ABAAD, tours the country with the goal of empowering women and girls to prevent...
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Jinan Nabaa

Refugees and the job market: Working against the grain

According to the last report published by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) under the banner of “shelters...
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Lee el Sayed

“We do not call it what it is”: The ability of language to dehumanize

We do not call it what it is. In our conversations and calls for change, we often dismiss the meanings that our words carry and their implications in existing contexts and systems of oppression. We may do this in our relationships with each other, in our conversations with ourselves, in...
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Beirut Today

Child Abuse in Lebanon: Lifelong repercussions, and how to confront it

At least one million children in Lebanon are in danger of violence as the crisis intensifies. We talk to Himaya...
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عامر شيباني

Risk of deporting asylum-seeking Kenyan activist in Lebanon persists

After more than four months of arrest, the fate of Kenyan worker and activist NM remains unknown. She remains with...
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عامر شيباني

Lebanon’s housing crisis: On tenant rights, eviction, and the state

“We are on the verge of a displacement crisis.” It is with these words that Jana Haidar, Housing Monitor Coordinator at the Public Works Studio, described the status of housing in Lebanon. “There is a significant increase in rent prices as opposed to meager salaries and great greed by landlords,”...
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Abigail Carroll

March in Beirut unites feminist activists against social and economic violence

Feminists were marching to express anger towards state-sanctioned violence and harassment against marginalized groups in Lebanon.
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عامر شيباني

Tomorrow’s leaders access quality education with Teach For Lebanon despite crisis

Teach for Lebanon is filling in a major gap in the country's education sector, more important than ever in times of crisis.
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عامر شيباني

Older people in Lebanon “die a thousand times each day” amidst crisis

“I don't want to be a burden on anyone,” said one 68-year-old woman in Lebanon. “I want to live and die in dignity.”
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Laudy Issa

Why don’t women in Lebanon report domestic violence?

And what resources are available to to both Lebanese women and refugees in the country?
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Lynn Sheikh Moussa

Marwan Habib, serial harasser, jailed without bond

Serial sexual harasser and rapist Marwan Habib has now been jailed in the United States, as per a WVSN news...
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Graffiti demanding justice for domestic workers across the Kenyan Consulate exterior walls in Beirut.
Lynn Sheikh Moussa

Kenyan domestic workers to be repatriated after weeks of sleeping in the rain

The Kenyan workers began protesting in Lebanon after fleeing abuse and dire working conditions, or being abandoned by their employers.
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