Located in the heart of Ashrafieh, Takeover is an artist-run project space that has been featuring a number of different...
Comedian Nour Hajjar was released on Tuesday evening after Judge Ghassan Oueidat retracted his decision – for now. Having been...
Last week, the military police summoned comedian Nour Hajjar over a joke he made about how soldiers are now working as delivery drivers in the midst of socioeconomic deterioration. Hajjar’s joke, while deemed unfunny by official authorities, is largely true: due to the lack of income from being a soldier,...
Last week, a pre-audit report by the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) and the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO)...
The last few years saw a dramatic increase in the number of women killed by their partners, family members or...
The Lebanese caretaker government has approved the draft of the 2023 budget after six sessions of examinations starting late July, around eight months into the year. The budget, which organizes state revenue and expenditure, usually comes at the beginning or before the start of a calendar year. As the 2023...
Zaynab Mourad is an artist, social activist, and storyteller at heart who moved to Beirut in late 2018. Born and...
It is in collectives that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism. Angela Y. Davis, Freedom is a Constant Struggle...
Any outside observer who takes a look at Lebanon’s state of affairs would immediately assume that raging public discussions and dominant discourses hover around food insecurity, providing necessary health and pharmaceutical services, improving educational outcomes and formulating better social protection programs. In fact, many would be astonished to find out...
On Wednesday, a truck loaded with weapons flipped on the Kahhaleh turn, an area notorious for its hosting of recurrent...
Last week, Prime Minister Najib Mikati warned that by the end of the month, there will be an inability to...
With the country entering new levels of its accentuating crisis, Lebanon’s way out depends on the resolution of its current political impasse. A healthy and progressive economic recovery plan remains beyond the priorities of the current ruling elites, despite the current government running out of revenue-raising options. The reliance on...