Mohammad Morsi was much more significant than being a legitimately-elected president who was overthrown. His life and death tell a bigger Arab tale.
Community Voices
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.
It’s high time that hegemonic “feminine” standards are ousted by the realities of what it means to be a woman. Marlene Juliane's art does that.
Ramadan series tend to reinforce the gender stereotypes and real-life situations that would usually make our skin crawl.
If they asked, I would say that I didn't know who the pad was for.
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...
In Jowan Safadi, radical art meets radical politics. The Palestinian musician makes provocative and accessible political music that's much lacking in the Arab world.
Professors at the Lebanese University are on strike, demanding their rights from the government but putting the futures of students at risk. Students react:
For over a hundred years, women have willingly put up with the ridicule, the belittling, and the pushback from the public to advocate for women’s rights in Lebanon. And they had previously been forgotten.
The condition that Lebanon falls into is a product of a historical process that separated politics from economics through bureaucracy and technocracy.
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.
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.