Organised every year in August for the last 4 years, the International Theatre Festival of Lebanon will be expanding its programme to include other artistic disciplines.
Community Voices
With so many campaigns,initiatives, and movements supporting LGBTQ+ rights gaining strong ground recently, the question about whether the government is going to take sound measures to protect such a community (among other marginalised ones) resonates beyond the International Day Against Homophobia,Transphobia, and Biphobia.
This ghost town needs not Your sympathy Your needless speeches Your endless hypocritical lingo. This ghost town needs not Your empathy Your condescension Your ever-fading silhouettes. Our ghost town needs not Your vacant stacks Your stray bullets Your shameful pride Your suits and ties. This time, Beirut needs...
Since its establishment, Israel has continued, with impunity, to violate the most basic principles of international law and human rights, suggesting that, in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations, the sovereign equality of all nations remains nothing more than a beautifully phrased slogan that is void of practical meaning.
The history that is being taught to those students seems to stop in 1943, the year that Lebanon gained its independence from the French Mandate
Many independent or so-called "civil society" lists had high expectations that the new proportional law could help them get some seats.
What guarantees do Lebanese voters have that these candidates will still be unified after the elections?
Lebanon could face serious fiscal deterioration as a result of having access to Cedre pledges and other loans under the umbrella of the Global Concessionary Financing Facility (GCFF)
The discussion revealed a general consensus on the state's dysfunction and the persistent issue of a regime struggling since the Civil War.
Lebanese political parties will face challenges in attempting to formulate a proper political discourse several years down the road.
Beirut Today went to the Manara and asked people about their opinions on the upcoming parliamentary #elections2018
The extent to which Israel has control over Gaza creates a reasonable basis to assume that it amounts to “effective control,” despite the physical absence of the IDF in the Gaza Strip.