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Marwan Issa

The Call to Investigation of Nour Hajjar: Is it legal?

Last week, the military police summoned comedian Nour Hajjar over a joke he made about how soldiers are now working...
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Marwan Issa

“Ahla Bhal Talleh!”: New report sounds alarm on airport safety

Last week, a pre-audit report by the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) and the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO)...
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Marwan Issa

Dissecting Gender-Based Violence in Lebanon and the MENA Region

The last few years saw a dramatic increase in the number of women killed by their partners, family members or others in Lebanon and the Arab region as a whole. Lebanon saw 12 femicides in 2021, 18 in 2022 and 11 halfway into 2023 according to an article by the...
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Marwan Issa

The Kahhaleh Incident – What We Know so Far

On Wednesday, a truck loaded with weapons flipped on the Kahhaleh turn, an area notorious for its hosting of recurrent...
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Marwan Issa

Three Years after the August 4 Blast, the Struggle for Justice Continues

Friday of this week marks three years since the 2020 Beirut Port explosion, which led to at least 218 deaths...
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Mahdi El Amin

From Public to Private Spaces: Freedom to Discriminate in Lebanon Reigns Supreme

On May 14, a group of men approached a woman at Saida’s public beach and demanded she leave the premises due to her wearing a bikini, which they deemed to be “inappropriate.” This event was met with wide-scale controversy across Lebanon, but the Municipality of Saida’s only response was to...
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Marwan Issa

Riad Salameh exits Central Bank: The mess he left behind

Amidst the applause and music of a small crowd and a marching band, the tenure of Riad Salameh as Central...
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Lynn Sheikh Moussa

Israel attacks launch site in Lebanon following rocket-launch

Israeli forces struck an area of Lebanon from which a rocket was launched on Thursday, as per a statement by...
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Lynn Sheikh Moussa

Migrant workers take to streets on International Domestic Workers Day

Migrant workers took to Badaro street during International Domestic Workers Day on Sunday, June 18 to march in protest of the kafala system. Their banners, chants, and slogans echoed the same as they have for the past few years: Abolish the Kafala system, allow migrant workers the right to work...
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Nader Durgham

Lebanese parliament fails to elect president for twelfth time

Lebanese parliamentarians failed to elect a new president for the twelfth time on Wednesday, June 14. The session ended after...
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Maya Saad

Iran-Saudi Arabia deal: What could it mean for Lebanon?

Iran and Saudi Arabia took the world by surprise on March 10 when they announced from Beijing an agreement to...
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Nader Durgham

Lebanese state attacks journalists’ freedom of speech

Minister of Information Ziad Makari informed Megaphone co-founder Jean Kassir on Tuesday that Public Prosecutor Ghassan Oueidat had retracted his complaints against the outlet. This comes after State Security had summoned Kassir a second time on Monday, wanting him to appear in front of them on Tuesday morning. The Public...
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