Civil society in Lebanon has taken different forms and passed through various phases. It includes diverse political activist movements and...
Community Voices
In 2015/16, a shocking 31% of men and 53% of women aged 18-29 were unemployed, compared to 20% and 19% in 1997. More importantly, the pain of this worsening situation is increasingly felt by older age groups. Entire families are affected when their young men and women are unable to find employment, housing, and form a family.
Women and men gathered in front of the National Museum in Beirut on December 23, 2017, to light candles in solidarity with the women murdered during the preceding week. Youmna Darwish, 22 years old, was shot on the 13th. 15 years old Nazira Al Tartousi committed suicide on the 15th....
From the Silent Generation, Baby Boomers, Generation X, Millennials, to Generation Z, society has been obsessed with grouping people based...
To be abducted from one’s home, taken to a strange underground place, and isolated from any human contact aside from...
Many of us have the habit of going over newspapers in the morning, which are now mostly becoming electronic. A few days ago, one headline caught my attention: “Patients often detained at hospitals in developing nations if they can’t pay bill, report says”. My eyes were out on stalks as...
American University of Beirut Faculty Statement on Jerusalem. Released 19/12/2017 On December 6, 2017 President Trump declared that the United...
On December 13th and 14th, the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs (IFI) hosted an academic conference titled “100...
On December 6, the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs hosted a talk on water scarcity and its challenges in the Middle East. Dr. Hussam Hussein, a speaker, is a post-doc research fellow at IFI, as well as a visiting fellow at the University of East Anglia...
Lebanon’s coasts have been lying under a great yellow cloud, making sure we go about our daily lives with pride...
In the midst of the demonstration in Ramallah yesterday, on December 7, 2017, young men and women were chanting in...
Every day, people effortlessly roam streets from one place to another. My errands happen to be near the American University of Beirut Medical Center (AUBMC) and the American University of Beirut (AUB) campus. I walk amidst streets and buildings to find a young frail boy lying on the ground while his alleged destitute parents (or not)...