In a monumentally disappointing speech, President Donald J. Trump officially recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel in the White...
Community Voices
Murder on the Orient Express is the latest movie adaptation of the classic murder mystery written by Agatha Christie. It...
Turning Point Books has officially launched the new anthology entitled Arab Women Voice New Realities, co-edited by Roseanne Khalaf and Dima Nasser. The launch took place at Artisans du Liban et d’Orient, on Friday November 24, 2017. As a compilation of different stories told by Arab women themselves, the anthology...
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 people of this region are caught in a grand authoritarian bargain, where they are forced to trade their political rights against government-driven economic security. It is time for this to change.
AUB students gathered on Tuesday at 11am in front of College Hall, the campus’ main administrative building, to show support...
In the past couple of years, Lebanon has witnessed on-and-off attempts of political reform with the last (major) one being...
Twelve patterns, twelve regions, twelve women, twelve stories. Stitching Palestine is a documentary directed by Carol Mansour and produced and researched by Muna Khalidi. In the screening at Metropolis Sofil in Beirut, Carol Mansour was hesitant to introduce the movie: “It is not a story about embroidery”, she declared. Indeed, embroidery was...
In 1972, the late playwright and novelist Ira Levin wrote a novel about a city inhabited by women who were...
The resignation of Prime Minister Saad Hariri on Saturday, out of Saudi Arabia and aired exclusively on a Saudi TV,...
From policemen taking selfies in front of graffitis in Downtown Beirut to citizens protesting the pollution caused by the waste crisis by burning garbage, the relationship our country has with legality is paradoxical. In sectors as diverse as waste management, water and electricity provision, and, of course, public transportation, an...