• Politics
  • Economy
  • Better Living
  • Community Voices
  • العربية
  • See all results
  • About Us
  • Contact
  • Submit Your Article
Home
Community Voices
Op-Ed

Op-Ed

(Phil Roeder/Flickr)
Carl Khoury

Trump and the Media are Responsible for A Politicized Youth

The news has created a simpler way of discussing global matters which allows the youth –and Donald Trump– to understand politics.
Read More
Garbage crisis: Around 85 percent of Lebanon's waste goes to open dumps or landfills, even though 88 to 90 percent of it can be composted or recycled. (Infographic by Christina Atik)
Laudy Issa

Lebanese Politicians Will Never Agree On A Sustainable Solution To The Garbage Crisis

Harsh criticism or reality?
Read More
Mashrou' Leila poster for the Byblos International Festival.
Laudy Issa

People Are Threatening Mashrou’ Leila with Bullets Before Their Concert At the Byblos International Festival

They're also calling for the cancellation of Mashrou’ Leila’s concert for a song that “insults religion" but was released four years ago.
Read More
Lebanese actor Ziad Itani being carried after his release in 2018. (AP Photo | Hussein Malla)
Kareem Chehayeb

Ziad Itani, Lebanon’s torture epidemic and its frail courts

In his harrowing testimony, Ziad Itani said he was hung by his wrists for hours, kicked in the face enough to damage his teeth, and threatened with rape.
Read More
Former Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi passed away Monday after collapsing during a court hearing. (Sean Gallup | Getty Images)
Rami G. Khouri

Mohammad Morsi in life and death mirrors wider Arab agonies

Mohammad Morsi was much more significant than being a legitimately-elected president who was overthrown. His life and death tell a bigger Arab tale.
Read More
Man walking in Raqqah | August 2012. (Beshr Abdulhadi)
Salwa Al Homsi

Noha’s Journey From Raqqah to Bekaa, And From Violence to a Healthy Upbringing

We were asked to dig into our memories and remember scenes from our childhood. That’s when the image of my father hitting me came to me.
Read More
Jabal Cheikh El-Jabal, the lead character from Ramadan's popular Al Hayba series. (IMDb)
Sandra Abdelbaki

Al Hayba and other Ramadan 2019 dramas: Who are our heroes?

Ramadan series tend to reinforce the gender stereotypes and real-life situations that would usually make our skin crawl.
Read More
Period done by canva
Sherry Al-Hayek

I Got My Period

If they asked, I would say that I didn't know who the pad was for.
Read More
Lynn Sheikh Moussa

The Influencer Death Grip on the Fashion Industry and Journalism

By Lynn Sheikh Moussa and Laudy Issa An advertising art director with three years of experience in Lebanon would need 500 years to make the kind of money that Kylie Jenner makes per sponsored post on Instagram. Lebanese influencers like Karen Wazen and Nour Arida have tagged anything from Mango...
Read More
Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri at the presidential palace in Baabda after the fomation of the new government in January 2019. (AP/Hussein Malla)
Ali Chalak

People’s Budget: On The Separation of Politics from Economics and Wealth Production

The condition that Lebanon falls into is a product of a historical process that separated politics from economics through bureaucracy and technocracy.
Read More
Ali Nour

Lebanese Public Debt: Alternatives do Exist

Lebanese citizens don’t need more numbers to realise the extent to which this debt is exhausting the treasury, public finances, and the economic system.
Read More
Jad Chaaban

Lebanon Needs A Budget For Its People, Not Its Ruling Class

The ruling class, which has been in power for almost 30 years, is collectively responsible for the economy’s dire state of affairs. It should bear the costs of reforms and spare ordinary citizens.
Read More
Write for Beirut Today
  • Politics
  • Lebanon
  • Regional
  • World
  • Economy
  • Better Living
  • Culture
  • Science
  • Environment
  • Community Voices
  • Diaspora Voices
  • Activism
  • Neighborhood Novellas
  • Op-Ed
  • About Us
  • Contact
  • Submit Your Article
© 2022 Beirut Today. All rights reserved.
  • Politics
  • Economy
  • Better Living
  • Community Voices
  • العربية
Start typing to see results or hit ESC to close
lebanon #Beirut Hezbollah #Palestine Israel
See all results