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Lebanese women hold candle-lit vigil in tribute to four murdered women in Beirut, Lebanon, December 23 2017. REUTERS/Isam Abdallah
Gabriella Soriano

Call toxic masculinity by its name

Mazen Harfoush’s crime is not an isolated incident. He is one of many Lebanese men who have taken the lives of their spouses to assert their dominance.
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(Photo: Independent via Joseph Eid / AFP) Mass Murder in Baakline
Lynn Sheikh Moussa

“Honor” and Violence: Baakline mass murder acts as a grim reminder

Every day that the lockdown drags on in Lebanon, women across the country face unknown futures with trepidation and fear.
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"Neither coronavirus nor you will last," reads this sign from a protester in Lebanon on April 24. (Photo: Lebanon Express via Hussein Malla / Ap) Lira plummet article
Lynn Sheikh Moussa

Protesters return to the streets as value of Lebanese lira plummets

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.
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Gabrielle Antar

He didn’t rape me: A story of self-doubt, anger, and surviving assault

These violations happen way too often for us not to talk about.
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democracy in the Arab world article
Dima Farran

COVID-19: A blank cheque for authoritarian Arab regimes

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.
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Thalia Arawi

The Happy Rose

A thank you to sanitation workers, the invisible heroes keeping another public health crisis at bay in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Online activism, activism leaves the streets / illustration by Joseph Abi Saab
Lynn Sheikh Moussa

Protests halt, but activism persists despite pandemic

Protestors have had to forgo their streets, but have substituted this for art, illustration, writing, Instagram lives and many more.
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Thalia Arawi

The courage to live amidst the unbearable heaviness of being

She was ten years of age when, leaving the Italian School in Beirut on a cold winter night when she...
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Wissam Saad sits at his desk in his persona at Al Jadeed
Laudy Issa

When will Lebanese television comedians learn to respect women?

Al Jadeed's Wissam Saad is the latest Lebanese media personality to make rape the punchline of a joke.
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Visual showing some of the repurcussions of the Bisri Dam project. (Photo: Environmental Justice Atlas)
Lynn Sheikh Moussa

Bisri Dam project to resume, says cabinet during lockdown

Activists say the Bisri Dam will lead to an "environmental genocide" and fear further mismanagement of Lebanon's water resources.
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Medusa of Modern Times, COVID-19
Thalia Arawi

How COVID-19 is the Medusa of modern times

Like Medusa, COVID-19 has two faces.
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Antonia Williams

Amid coronavirus lockdown, Italy faces inklings of unrest

Authorities fear both that organized crime groups will exploit the crisis and that spontaneous revolts will result from growing livelihood concerns.
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