From the Silent Generation, Baby Boomers, Generation X, Millennials, to Generation Z, society has been obsessed with grouping people based...
Op-Ed
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...
American University of Beirut Faculty Statement on Jerusalem. Released 19/12/2017 On December 6, 2017 President Trump declared that the United...
Lebanon’s coasts have been lying under a great yellow cloud, making sure we go about our daily lives with pride...
In the midst of the demonstration in Ramallah yesterday, on December 7, 2017, young men and women were chanting in Arabic and calling for an end to both the occupation and complicity of the international community’s role in the occupation. Participating in this event with other supporters stirred up emotions...
Every day, people effortlessly roam streets from one place to another. My errands happen to be near the American University of Beirut...
In a monumentally disappointing speech, President Donald J. Trump officially recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel in the White...
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...
Turning Point Books has officially launched the new anthology entitled Arab Women Voice New Realities, co-edited by Roseanne Khalaf and...
To understand the sequence of events that lead to the ‘triumphant’ return of Saad Hariri to Beirut after his abrupt...
On November 29, 1947 UN resolution 181 gave the land of Palestine to strangers coming from afar and shattered the Arab dream of unification. Moving the war dynamics from Europe to the Middle East, this resolution — voted on in three minutes — planted the seed of a destructive...