American University of Beirut Faculty Statement on Jerusalem. Released 19/12/2017 On December 6, 2017 President Trump declared that the United...
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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)...
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...
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.