To be abducted from one’s home, taken to a strange underground place, and isolated from any human contact aside from...
Community Voices
Many of us have the habit of going over newspapers in the morning, which are now mostly becoming electronic. A...
American University of Beirut Faculty Statement on Jerusalem. Released 19/12/2017 On December 6, 2017 President Trump declared that the United States recognizes occupied Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. This announcement represents a significant violation of fundamental principles of international law and the Fourth Geneva Convention that protects any peoples...
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...
Lebanon’s coasts have been lying under a great yellow cloud, making sure we go about our daily lives with pride — to be proud for embracing a golden crow of smog. This not-so-surprising phenomenon is obviously caused by the rise of pollutants in the atmosphere. Air pollution in Lebanon has...
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...
In a monumentally disappointing speech, President Donald J. Trump officially recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel in the White House yesterday. He claimed that this recognition is the first step to a “new approach to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians” and “to advance the peace process”. What...
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...
To understand the sequence of events that lead to the ‘triumphant’ return of Saad Hariri to Beirut after his abrupt resignation and ‘detention’ in Saudi Arabia one has to follow the money, or more importantly the flow of petrodollars linked to Oil & Gas. The French President Macron changed his...