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Lebanese farmers can’t cover their costs, so they're quitting the industry
عزة الحاج حسن

Lebanese farmers can’t cover their costs, so they’re quitting the industry

The dollar crisis is destroying the farming industry in Lebanon. Farmers are struggling to cover even 20 percent of their agricultural costs.
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Beirut Today

Lebanon is only getting two hours of electricity right now

This comes despite the $42 billion dollar debt that the electricity sector holds, 44 percent of Lebanon's whole public debt.
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Karim Safieddine

Lebanon’s government applies the “Arab Tyrant Manual” as crisis looms

While Lebanon has historically attained a reputation of maintaining a bare minimum of press freedom, it now seems to have adopted the “Arab Tyrant Manual.”
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Sporting Club Beach (Photo: Beirut.com)
Lynn Sheikh Moussa

Veiled woman denied entry to Sporting Club pool area

Discrimination seems to not be exempt from the conversation, even as Lebanon battles bigger issues.
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Lynn Sheikh Moussa

Two die by suicide as Lebanon’s economic crisis worsens

A 60-year-old man died by suicide this morning on Hamra Street, where a Lebanese flag, a clean judicial record, and...
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"Palestine rejects division, no to colonial annexation" (Photo: Fawzi Mahmoud / The Palestine Chronicle)
Michael Avanzato

The razor’s edge of Israeli apartheid: Annexation or ethno-state?

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may (or may not) begin to lead cabinet discussions concerning the proposed annexation of the West Bank this month. Media outlets, largely Western, have reported on this possibility, and its fallout, breathlessly. They have given utterly confusing accounts of the annexation of Palestine, and even...
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A man searching for food in Lebanon during November 2019 (Photo: Middle East Monitor via Ibrahim Chalhoub / AFP / Getty Images) Famine article
Lynn Sheikh Moussa

Lebanese at risk of famine as poverty soars

With no clear solutions to Lebanon's economic crisis in sight, the possibility of famine is the latest addition to the country's bleak future.
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Queerness in the Arab World Article: Photo of family on table staring at you in discontent. Reads above them: "Do you have to upset us with your feminism?"
Gabrielle Antar

Queerness in the Arab World: A tool to challenge a subversive reality?

"Normative social categories can be disrupted through everyday performances of resistance."
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Nader Durgham

Lebanese politicians are pushing for laws that jail those who insult them

As the economic crisis keeps unfolding & corruption remains rampant, having free voices is essential to properly understanding public needs.
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What is the Lebanese crisis hiding for freelancers and the self-employed?
Maguie Hamzeh

What is the Lebanese crisis hiding for freelancers and the self-employed?

The Lebanese workforce is taking the hit of the collapsing economy.
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From blackface to bleaching creams, racism is clear-cut in the Arab World
Lynn Sheikh Moussa

From blackface to bleaching creams, racism is clear-cut in the Arab World

Delve into colonialism, the arrival and persistence of blackface in the region, skin bleaching creams, and unlearning racist practices in the Arab World.
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ICC and grand corruption in Lebanon
Bassam Azzi

ICC’s potential role in ending Lebanon’s saga of grand corruption

While Grand corruption is not in the list of core international crimes over which the ICC has jurisdiction, the Court can investigate crimes against humanity.
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