In the midst of the demonstration in Ramallah yesterday, on December 7, 2017, young men and women were chanting in...
Community Voices
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...
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 for their fellow peers who received Dean’s warnings the night before. It all started in May when the administration decided to revoke graduate assistants’ monthly stipends, claiming that this cut...
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...
In 1972, the late playwright and novelist Ira Levin wrote a novel about a city inhabited by women who were beautiful, dedicated to housework, and submissive to their husbands. Three years later, the novel became a movie: The Stepford Wives, a term which came to denote women who lost their...