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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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Detail of Colossal Krater from Altamura, about 350 B.C., Greek, made in Apulia, South Italy. (Photo: The Iris) Sisyphus article
Thalia Arawi

Sisyphus was condemned to roll his rock: “We must imagine Sisyphus happy”

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.
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Syrian refugees in a building under construction they have been using as a shelter in the city of Saida, March 2020. There are rising fears that refugee communities are at an increased risk of getting COVID-19. (AP / Al Arabiya)
Thalia Arawi

Forgetting “refugees” during COVID-19

COVID-19 has brought to the surface social inequalities for which “refugees” and the less advantaged are not morally responsible.
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Thalia Arawi

When the elderly become disposable: COVID-19 and discrimination

“Do not be afraid, the virus kills only the elderly and the seriously ill” is not a reassurance, or at least it ought not be.
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Thalia Arawi

Selfishness in times of COVID-19

What human being is that who decides to increase the prices of masks, detergents, or alcohol just to make more money during the coronavirus outbreak?
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Hezbollah's article: The protests in solidarity with the Syrian revolution in Beirut in 2015. (Facebook / @SRC.Lebanon)
Karim Safieddine

Has solidarity with Syrians become taboo in Hezbollah’s Lebanon?

More often than not, vocal critics within Hezbollah's local community are harassed and pressured into issuing formal and public apologies.
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children and moral anti-natalist article graphic
Thalia Arawi

How I turned from a mother of 8 to an anti-natalist

Bringing children to this world means that you will have to accept that they grow up in a Draconian universe of deceit, lies and greed.
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Charbel Khoury ordered to be detained by Judge Ghada Aoun criticizing FPM
Laudy Issa

FPM continues judicial crackdown against journalists and activists

Instead of taking on political corruption cases, the Lebanese judiciary has systematically targeted journalists and activists to silence them since the start of the anti-government October 17 Revolution.
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