As the value of the lira plummets and costs of living rise, lockdown is proving to be another economic challenge that people in Lebanon are incapable of overcoming.
Community Voices
These violations happen way too often for us not to talk about.
For Arab countries, the fight against COVID-19 threatens to become an excuse for the crackdown on dissent, the clampdown on freedoms and the abuse of power.
A thank you to sanitation workers, the invisible heroes keeping another public health crisis at bay in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic.
Protestors have had to forgo their streets, but have substituted this for art, illustration, writing, Instagram lives and many more.
She was ten years of age when, leaving the Italian School in Beirut on a cold winter night when she looked to the sky and asked her treasured father who came to pick her up, “Daddy, what would it be like a world without God? Would it be deep dark...
Al Jadeed's Wissam Saad is the latest Lebanese media personality to make rape the punchline of a joke.
Activists say the Bisri Dam will lead to an "environmental genocide" and fear further mismanagement of Lebanon's water resources.
Like Medusa, COVID-19 has two faces.
Authorities fear both that organized crime groups will exploit the crisis and that spontaneous revolts will result from growing livelihood concerns.
As I sit, work & dream from home because of COVID-19, the words of Karl Marx strike me as more realistic than ever: Capitalists are their own grave-diggers.
COVID-19 has brought to the surface social inequalities for which “refugees” and the less advantaged are not morally responsible.