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Marwan Issa

The Call to Investigation of Nour Hajjar: Is it legal?

Last week, the military police summoned comedian Nour Hajjar over a joke he made about how soldiers are now working...
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Marwan Issa

“Ahla Bhal Talleh!”: New report sounds alarm on airport safety

Last week, a pre-audit report by the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) and the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO)...
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Marwan Issa

Dissecting Gender-Based Violence in Lebanon and the MENA Region

The last few years saw a dramatic increase in the number of women killed by their partners, family members or others in Lebanon and the Arab region as a whole. Lebanon saw 12 femicides in 2021, 18 in 2022 and 11 halfway into 2023 according to an article by the...
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Marwan Issa

Cabinet Approves 2023 Draft Budget Eight Months into the Year

The Lebanese caretaker government has approved the draft of the 2023 budget after six sessions of examinations starting late July,...
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Chhavi Mehra

Artist spotlight: Zaynab Mourad

Zaynab Mourad is an artist, social activist, and storyteller at heart who moved to Beirut in late 2018. Born and...
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Celine al Jamil

The Disillusionment of Kafala: Collectivize to Escape

It is in collectives that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism. Angela Y. Davis, Freedom is a Constant Struggle The Kafala System has been a part of Lebanon since the early 1950s. As the country continues to go through economic and political fluctuations, migrant workers are often discriminated against...
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Marwan Issa

“Barbie” ban indicates deeper paradoxes in Lebanon

Any outside observer who takes a look at Lebanon’s state of affairs would immediately assume that raging public discussions and...
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Marwan Issa

The Kahhaleh Incident – What We Know so Far

On Wednesday, a truck loaded with weapons flipped on the Kahhaleh turn, an area notorious for its hosting of recurrent...
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Marwan Issa

Warnings of Further Shortages as Eyes are on New Acting Central Bank Governor Mansouri

Last week, Prime Minister Najib Mikati warned that by the end of the month, there will be an inability to adequately provide medicines and salaries. Accordingly, eyes are on the new acting Central Bank Governor, Wassim Mansouri, to see the direction he takes in terms of Central Bank and monetary...
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Marwan Issa

The Scramble for a Lifeline: On the Three Government Sources of Revenue and the Lebanese Political Elites

With the country entering new levels of its accentuating crisis, Lebanon’s way out depends on the resolution of its current...
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Marwan Issa

Three Years after the August 4 Blast, the Struggle for Justice Continues

Friday of this week marks three years since the 2020 Beirut Port explosion, which led to at least 218 deaths...
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Mahdi El Amin

From Public to Private Spaces: Freedom to Discriminate in Lebanon Reigns Supreme

On May 14, a group of men approached a woman at Saida’s public beach and demanded she leave the premises due to her wearing a bikini, which they deemed to be “inappropriate.” This event was met with wide-scale controversy across Lebanon, but the Municipality of Saida’s only response was to...
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