The people of this region are caught in a grand authoritarian bargain, where they are forced to trade their political rights against government-driven economic security. It is time for this to change.
In the past couple of years, Lebanon has witnessed on-and-off attempts of political reform with the last (major) one being...
Last August the Rohingya living in Myanmar witnessed the beginning of an age filled with atrocities and massacres. Militants attacked government forces whom in return initiated a “clearance operation” that aims to erase Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar (estimated at 1.1 million out of a total population in the country of...
The resignation of Prime Minister Saad Hariri on Saturday, out of Saudi Arabia and aired exclusively on a Saudi TV,...
Walking in a cold frightening floor of a hospital, you see a little innocent baby whose limbs are missing. Birth...
Supporters of Bachir Gemayel gathered up in Sassine Square in Achrafieh, Beirut, on October 20, 2017, as they celebrated the final verdict of the assassination of the former President-elect. The Judicial Council, Lebanon’s top court, sentenced Habib Shartouni and Nabil Al-Alam to death, 35 years after the explosion that killed...
Not so long ago, I was sitting at a coffee shop having my cup of Mocha Latte while having a...
Lebanon’s Director of the Internal Security Forces Anti-Cybercrime and Intellectual Property Rights Bureau Maj. Suzan Hajj Hobeiche was fired on...
Stephen Paddock, a white 64 year old man, killed at least 50 people at a Las Vegas music festival this Sunday. U.S. media were quick to label it “one of the deadliest mass shootings” in this country’s history. At a press conference held in the aftermath of the attack, Las...
Last week, Hamas, the ruling Islamic faction in Gaza, asked the Palestinian National Authority (PNA)’s President Mahmoud Abbas to resume...
The Council of Ministers approved on Sunday the use of biometric IDs during elections for a budget of 40 million...
We have a new electoral law, but with many flaws.
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