Earlier this week, Minister of Education and Higher Education Abbas Halabi decided to launch the academic year despite unresolved reservations...
Carlos Haidamous loved going to the airports. He loved to see the planes fly and explore the cockpits, and today,...
Located in the heart of Ashrafieh, Takeover is an artist-run project space that has been featuring a number of different collaborations, experimentations and artistic initiatives in unique fashions. Established by Lithuanian-Lebanese artist Ieva Saudargaite Douaihi, the space is characterized by its extreme flexibility and malleability, which allows any artist from...
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...
Last week, a pre-audit report by the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) and the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) highlighted a number of safety issues to be urgently dealt with at Beirut’s Rafic Hariri International Airport. The country’s airport has witnessed considerable activity during the last few weeks as...
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,...
Zaynab Mourad is an artist, social activist, and storyteller at heart who moved to Beirut in late 2018. Born and raised in Tripoli, north of Lebanon, Mourad had artistic tendencies for as long as she could remember. “My mom used to forget that she had a daughter. I would just...
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...
On Wednesday, a truck loaded with weapons flipped on the Kahhaleh turn, an area notorious for its hosting of recurrent accidents and dangerous design, as well as for its old history of hosting conflicts between warring factions. The incident made national headlines, as it was followed by violent fighting between...