After a long period of absent on-the-ground action, Lebanon’s social movement landscape has once again seen life. On Monday, the...
“The clocks were striking midnight, and the rooms were very still as a figure glided quietly from bed to bed,...
Clashes along the border between Syrian forces and local Lebanese armed groups haveintensified yesterday. The clashes continue to take place in the town of Hawsh al-Sayyid Ali.According to early reports, the Syrian Army has opened fire at Lebanese individuals who werereturning to the town after a brief cessation of engagements....
ABOUT THE BOOK: Beirut Blues by Hanan al-Shaykh is a poignant epistolary novel that captures the chaos and heartbreak of...
We live in a world where crisis is here and now for some but elsewhere and not yet for others....
On February 26, Prime Minister Nawaf Salam’s government won the confidence vote in the Lebanese parliament. 95 out of the parliament’s 128 members backed the government, while 12 withheld confidence and four abstained from the voting. All 12 members that withheld confidence were part of the Free Patriotic Movement led...
As Palestinians in Gaza make their way to the northern part of the strip after 15 months of genocide and...
Prime Minister-Designate of Lebanon Nawaf Salam highlighted that he is working day and night on the formation of the upcoming...
The announcement of changes to Syria’s education curriculum, published on the Ministry of Education’s official Facebook page on January 1, has triggered widespread criticism. The 12-page list of proposed changes is seen by skeptics as a sign of the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) leaders, who overthrew the Assad regime last...
Riham al-Shaar races down the corridors of Al-Mujtahid Hospital in the Syrian capital, Damascus. She weaves through a maze of...
Following the toppling of Bachar al-Assad and the entrance of opposition forces to all areas previously controlled by the regime,...
On the morning of Sunday, December 8, the unthinkable happened: Bashar al-Assad’s brutal regime fell. For years, his iron grip on Syria had crushed its people, silencing voices and extinguishing lives. As his regime collapsed, so too did the institutions that symbolized his tyranny – including Sednaya Prison. Known as...