On Friday, May 19, the Arab League held one of its most relevant summits in recent years in Jeddah, Saudi...
On Saturday, May 6, The United Kingdom officially crowned its new King, Charles III, along with his wife Camilla as...
On October 25th, Lebanese photographer Mohamad Abdouni launched his solo exhibition, “Treat Me Like Your Mother,” at the Mina Image Center in Beirut, Lebanon. The exhibition builds on his personal and extensive body of work regarding the Lebanese queer community, directly spotlighting 10 transgender women living in Beirut. Amdouni shot...
Ardkon.com is an independent grassroots initiative designed to bring communities together while aiding social development. In this video, we sat...
We asked people on the streets of Beirut how they’re coping with the current situation. Watch the video to listen...
Lebanon has never been in worse shape. The economy has collapsed, political paralysis has become the norm, and social unrest is increasingly on the rise. A much understudied aspect of the Lebanese crisis is the rising polarization among the different social, political, and religious groups of the country. This has...
The crisis that hit Lebanon in late 2019, crippling many sectors of the country’s societies, has had disproportionate impacts on...
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 of Megaphone, was intercepted on Thursday by members of Lebanon’s State Security while driving his car, instead of being notified at his home or workplace. After Megaphone’s lawyer attended the...
A new report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) has revealed how state actors and private individuals across the Middle East...
At approximately 4 AM on Monday, February 7, a massive 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit southern Turkey and Northern Syria, causing...
In the past few months, a group of a few hundred men roaming the streets of Achrafieh made headlines in Lebanon. They called themselves “Jnoud Al-Rab”, which roughly translates to “Soldiers of God”, and identified themselves as a newly-established Christian militant group. The group set out to openly wage war...