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What the Lebanese people want and deserve

People have waited for too long to give additional chances for those in power to accept piecemeal and sequential reforms. Their economic welfare is no longer separable from their political dignity, especially when insults to their lives –and their intelligence– are perpetrated on a daily basis.

Healthcare provider checks in on patient in Lebanon. (Al-Fanar Media)

Natali Farran

Without political ties, healthcare access in Lebanon is more difficult

When access to social services is used as a deliberate strategy by politicians to gain support, healthcare inequalities are exacerbated.

Ghida Ismail

Is Lebanon experiencing a revolution of the mind?

Google searches for political, economic, and revolution-related terms in Lebanon have spiked in the past three months, when anti-government protests began.

Designate Prime Minister Hassan Diab meets with President Michel Aoun and Lebanese Speaker of Parliament Nabih Berri. (Washington Post) - Lebanese government talks

Timour Azhari

Hassan Diab forms 20-minister Cabinet

Prime Minister Hassan Diab Tuesday formed a 20-minister government made up mostly of technocrats who were chosen by political parties...

Michael Avanzato

Capital, oil, and pistachios: America’s imperial interests in Iran

There are clear economic and imperial incentives for the United States to ramp up its aggression towards Iran.

Activist Nidal Ayoub in front of the Cybercrimes Bureau on January 7, 2020. (PHOTO: Twitter / @SK_Eyes)

Timour Azhari

Protest activist interrogated by Cybercrimes Bureau

Nidal Ayoub was interrogated by the Cybercrimes Bureau Tuesday on charges including insulting the president and “undermining the prestige of the state.”

Antonia Williams

Soleimani’s death further destabilizes Lebanon

"Lebanon will be affected, and Hezbollah will counter-attack."

The new Lebanese Prime Minister Hassan Diab. December 19, 2019. REUTERS / Mohamed Azakir

Antonia Williams

Why protesters are rejecting Hassan Diab’s appointment as PM

Protesters consider the new PM to be a part of the same ruling class that lead the country into the current economic crisis.

Timour Azhari

Former minister Hassan Diab tasked with forming Lebanon government

BEIRUT: Former Education Minister Hassan Diab was tasked this Thursday with forming the next Lebanese government, with the support of 69 MPs, including affiliates of Hezbollah, the Amal Movement, the Free Patriotic Movement and their allies. “I call on the Lebanese people in all squares and all areas to be...

Today, infrastructure in Lebanon continues to be a site for political struggle and economic gain.

Laudy Issa

Politics

What the Lebanese people want and deserve

Without political ties, healthcare access in Lebanon is more difficult

Is Lebanon experiencing a revolution of the mind?

Hassan Diab forms 20-minister Cabinet

Capital, oil, and pistachios: America’s imperial interests in Iran

Protest activist interrogated by Cybercrimes Bureau

Soleimani’s death further destabilizes Lebanon

Why protesters are rejecting Hassan Diab’s appointment as PM

Former minister Hassan Diab tasked with forming Lebanon government

Why do our streets flood? Because Lebanese politicians benefit from our broken system.

Historical revisionism: Consociational politics is a governance flaw

Feminism and the October Revolution: The people demand and do not negotiate