The troubled political career of the Prime Minister of Lebanon did not start with the controversy over his trip to Saudi Arabia two months ago.
The last time I voted in Parliamentary elections was in 2005, thirteen years ago. I am planning to vote this...
The term “civil society” has been used to describe those who are “active” outside the traditional societal organizations and within oppositional movements against other parts of society, mainly against state authorities.
On the sectarian politicization of appointments to senior positions, reform, and drafting a National Anticorruption Strategy
To get a better understand these issues, we ought to carefully examine the 2017 state budget endorsed by the parliament in October.
The KAFA protest is particularly significant in the context of the upcoming parliamentary elections, with many signs stating that their bearers will not be voting for “patriarchal ideology."
Human Rights Watch has released a campaign advocating for a major switch up in Lebanon’s handling of their waste. There...
Whenever a trailer comes out and I hear people’s responses, I’m usually the guy that breathes words of caution: that...
Governments are (and should be) subject to exhaustive scrutiny on the part of society– a reality that is no stranger to Lebanon, through local and international organizations, as well as through citizens who have become capable of monitoring and reinforcing the compliance of the law and the international principles that...
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...
No political topic loomed as large as the drive to uncover the fate of Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Al-Hariri in Saudi Arabia on the Lebanese political scene throughout November. Regardless of the specific conditions that led to this scandalous political affair, that is if he was pressured to resign from...