Many of us have the habit of going over newspapers in the morning, which are now mostly becoming electronic. A...
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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 years after the Balfour Declaration and 70 Years after the Partition Plan”, in collaboration with the Institute for Palestinian Studies. In the wake of US President Donald Trump’s decision to...
On December 6, the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs hosted a talk on water scarcity and...
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 Arabic and calling for an end to both the occupation and complicity of the international community’s role in the occupation. Participating in this event with other supporters stirred up emotions...
Every day, people effortlessly roam streets from one place to another. My errands happen to be near the American University of Beirut...
In a monumentally disappointing speech, President Donald J. Trump officially recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel in the White...
Murder on the Orient Express is the latest movie adaptation of the classic murder mystery written by Agatha Christie. It tells the tale of the murder of an American businessman on the Orient Express, after the train is stranded during a snowstorm. Who amongst the thirteen passengers on the train...
Turning Point Books has officially launched the new anthology entitled Arab Women Voice New Realities, co-edited by Roseanne Khalaf and...
To understand the sequence of events that lead to the ‘triumphant’ return of Saad Hariri to Beirut after his abrupt...
On November 29, 1947 UN resolution 181 gave the land of Palestine to strangers coming from afar and shattered the Arab dream of unification. Moving the war dynamics from Europe to the Middle East, this resolution — voted on in three minutes — planted the seed of a destructive...