Minister of Information Ziad Makari informed Megaphone co-founder Jean Kassir on Tuesday that Public Prosecutor Ghassan Oueidat had retracted his...
Editors from two independent media outlets were summoned for questioning by different Lebanese security agencies this week. Jean Kassir, co-founder...
A new report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) has revealed how state actors and private individuals across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region have been using dating apps, such as Tinder and Grindr, and social media to entrap lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. The report revealed that...
In the past few months, a group of a few hundred men roaming the streets of Achrafieh made headlines in...
On Monday December 19, 2022, the streets of Beirut saw new, modern public buses for the first time in years. ...
In June 2022, residents of Mar Mkhayel and Gemmayze began organized action against what they describe as unlawful acts by local pubs, valet parking corporations, and crooked realtors. Their first direct action scheme was setting up a banner over a local pub, which says “Residential area, your noise is a...
December 27th, 11 am, tens of Lebanese women congregate in front of the parliament for ABAAD’s anti-sexual harassment campaign, their...
On October 6, Lebanon’s Ministry of Health announced the country’s first cholera case since 1993. Just a month later, the...
Unable to afford basic necessities, cut off from their family… Here is a look into the dire situation of low-income elderly in Lebanon today....
Six years after the launch of the “strong regime” against freedoms, Lebanon closes the curtains of the era of collapse...
The Lebanese parliament failed to elect a new Lebanese president for the fourth time on Monday, October 24. As the...
When a country’s living conditions deteriorate, poverty takes its middle classes by storm, dropping them in a quagmire of needs and destitution. In this situation, certain professions and trades prevail that secure barely enough nutrition for a small family, let alone a single member of this family. This is the...