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Resilience article (Photo: Marylin Chahine)
Marylin Chahine

After the Beirut blast, the Lebanese people have grown tired of being resilient

It is our turn to break the cycle and reject this notion of resilience, which we have inherited and has been imposed on us.
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Beirut explosion - Collective trauma - Black glass-stained heart over grey background
Laudy Issa

Beirut Blast: Another generation of Lebanese collective trauma

“Do you see why we say things will never change in Lebanon?” my mother asked. “This is what we lived through during the Civil War.”
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Maguie Hamzeh

Our beloved Beirut is in ruins because of the government’s negligence

The blast that destroyed Beirut is the latest, deadliest example of the negligence and corruption of Lebanon's politicians.
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(Photo: Real Estate Syndicate of Lebanon)
Ali Fawaz

Lebanese rekindle real estate flame as banks lose trust

Lebanon’s banking crisis served as a blessing in disguise for the Lebanese real estate market.
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Narimane Bibi

What it feels like when a country dies

In the past few months, helplessness slithered its way back into the everyday emotional luggage I carry.
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Bassam Azzi

A collective Lebanese identity for a better tomorrow

To encourage dialogue along the lines of a national identity, rather than a sectarian one, is to unify citizens in support of a collective wellbeing.
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Jad Chaaban

How do we prevent the total collapse of the Lebanese Pound?

The national currency needs to be prevented from total collapse, and this needs to be done in a pragmatic and gradual approach with a clear bias towards protecting the interests of the majority of the population against the predatory behavior of the ruling cartel.
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Laudy Issa

The courage of Sara Hegazy in an unaccepting world

The world lost yet another activist, LGBTQ+ rights advocate Sara Hegazy, because she showed her true colors in a conservative society that feared the change she represented.
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Farah Ali-Ahmad

Lebanese people can start supporting Black lives by not using racist words

Through atrocious language and the abusive Kafala system, we degrade Lebanon's migrant workers and threaten their safety.
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Ali Fawaz

The Lebanese Complex: On building a new Lebanon

Before we achieve any sort of progress, we must absolve ourselves from the pretentious nature that has dug us this deep.
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Migrant workers demand the abolishment of Lebanon's Kafala system during the Women's March in 2019. (Photo: Laudy Issa)
Amr Jomaa

Our silence is proof that black lives don’t matter in Lebanon

We will not effectively reform our parliament, our government, or our institutions while we allow some humans to be dehumanized.
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Protesters face riot police in Beirut on April 28, 2020. (PHOTO: Patrick Baz / AFP via Getty Images)
Jad Safwan

Lebanon’s Protests: On Leadership, Decentralization and Hope

Leadership and coordination would be important, not necessarily in a rigid hierarchy, to officially unify the demands of those who seek change.
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