In the majority of societies, men and women emphasize the importance of gender equity to achieve the same opportunities for...
Op-Ed
Spreading rumors about an imminent financial collapse is short-sighted. It would harm the average Lebanese citizen while ironically emboldening rather than undermining the country's ruling class.
Lebanon’s Director of the Internal Security Forces Anti-Cybercrime and Intellectual Property Rights Bureau Maj. Suzan Hajj Hobeiche was fired on Monday after liking a tweet that mocked Saudi women. The tweet by Lebanese producer Charbel Khalil mocked the recent royal decree that permitted women in Saudi Arabia their basic right...
Stephen Paddock, a white 64 year old man, killed at least 50 people at a Las Vegas music festival this...
To the resentment of many (myself included), Doueiri resided eleven months in Israel for the purpose of directing his 2012...
Last week, Hamas, the ruling Islamic faction in Gaza, asked the Palestinian National Authority (PNA)’s President Mahmoud Abbas to resume control over the Gaza Strip. Though this seems like a momentous movement away from the hostility between Fatah and Hamas to potentially bridging a union between the West Bank and...
I graduated from high school after 15 years of schooling and learning from patient, dedicated, cultured individuals. This allowed me...
As women, we need to normalize our presence in this vital urban space, and we need to shift the terms of debate from fears over our safety to a shared commitment to our right to the city.
Encountering Westerners in Beirut is just as common as facing traffic in Ras Beirut. Within these encounters, conversations take place, and certain things are taken away from these conversations. A particular notion that sticks is the following: Western society and ideals are better than the Lebanese or Middle Eastern society....
During my round in a hospital during a few months back, presented to the Emergency Department an old, obviously religious...
Disclaimer: This article is in no way justifying or supporting any of President Donald J. Trump’s actions and practices. A...
Though Lebanon’s civil war ended in 1990, the issue of post-war reconciliation still exists; for starters, the sectarian and xenophobic tensions have yet to be resolved, and the post-war reconstruction program has only exacerbated existing displacement and socioeconomic woes. Unlike the vast majority of art to come out of mainstream...