Two weeks after Beirut's August 4 explosion, I tested COVID-19 positive. There seems to be a pattern to how people responded to the news.
At least 34 refugees have died, 7 are still missing, and another 124 have been hurt because of the Beirut blast.
It would be a critical error to view international aid as “neutral” in any important sense.
To rebuild and restore Lebanon’s creative industries, individuals and NGOs are seeking aid from anyone capable of contributing.
15 years later, what sort of justice has the Special Tribunal for Lebanon served the people of this country?
With the creation of the IIFF, filmmakers, directors, actors, and other creatives will be given a much-needed channel to showcase their work.
Moving forward, Beirut's reconstruction must rethink the inequalities & weaknesses that stemmed out from urban planning before the explosion.
Unpacking Gebran Bassil’s speech earlier this week, his argument for why the Free Patriotic Movement is not to blame seemed weak at times and contradictory at others.
“Their existence is legalized, but they are a militia,” says Maher Abou Shackra about Lebanon's parliamentary guards.
General Security will be collecting the women’s passport photos on Monday, August 17 to begin preparing the travel documents.
The Beirut explosion is an act of terror, one with a collective responsibility that falls on a corrupt sectarian power-sharing system.
And how do we move forward?