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Camp Claude interviewed by Beirut Today
Laudy Issa

Quickfire Questions: Camp Claude talks music, movies, and Beirut

France-based Camp Claude’s Diane Sagnier talks about Beirut and her electropop music in a round of Quickfire Questions at Beirut...
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Ayyad El Masri

Access to Information: The Rights & Responsibilities of Being an Informed Lebanese Citizen

The Lebanese Parliament denied a request to access declassified information in February 2018. In other words, the exact legislative body...
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The entrance to Beit Beirut, where the exhibition accompanying the launch of the timeline of the women's movement in Lebanon is on display until Saturday evening. (Laudy Issa)
Laudy Issa

You can now see the entire history of the women’s movement in Lebanon

For over a hundred years, women have willingly put up with the ridicule, the belittling, and the pushback from the public to advocate for women’s rights in Lebanon. And they had previously been forgotten.
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Posters from the Thief of Baghdad exhibition. (Sandra Abdelbaki)
Sandra Abdelbaki

Thief of Baghdad: The meanings behind Western posters of Arab cinema

As you stare at the details of these posters, an orientalist narrative of submissive Arab women and violent Arab men stares right back at you.
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Lynn Sheikh Moussa

Undressing the Lebanese Fashion Design Industry: Education, Support, And Misconceptions

Fashion designers in Lebanon are struggling without educational options, no financial support, and community misconceptions. Here are their options.
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Kareem Chehayeb

Does Lebanon really have a press freedom problem, or is it just getting bad press?

Lebanon fairs better than most in the region when it comes to freedom of the press, but that doesn’t say much when your counterparts include Iran, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Syria, and Turkey.
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Live Love Recycle truck and drivers on the streets. (Lebanon Traveller)
Sandra Abdelbaki

People Raised $50,000 for Live Love Recycle, Here’s How It’s Being Used

Not only does Live Love Recycle provide a free recycling collection service in Beirut, but also grants jobs to 436 people from vulnerable communities.
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Jad Chaaban

Lebanon Needs A Budget For Its People, Not Its Ruling Class

The ruling class, which has been in power for almost 30 years, is collectively responsible for the economy’s dire state of affairs. It should bear the costs of reforms and spare ordinary citizens.
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The Smurfs dissociating from their ongoing battles, over cigarettes and talks. Photo taken by George Azar
Maya Wakim

Civil War photographer tells the stories your history books don’t acknowledge

History blackout: A quick look around George Azar’s office unravels years of untold humanist stories from the war and a history living through the lens of the photographer.
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Post-rock band Ilvy –Paul Toubia, Anthony Hakim, Joe Kareh, Gabriel Sarkissian. (Tony Elieh)
Laudy Issa

Meet local post-rock band Ilvy and their stuffed monkey mascot

Ilvy grip and hook their listeners with a consistently surprising "wall of sound" that ranges from heavy instrumentals to light ambient sounds.
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Hadi Afif

Private education in Lebanon, for those who can afford it

There's no in-between: Private education tuition fees continue to increase, while Lebanon's only public university remains neglected by the government.
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Hossein Cheaito

Political parties shame rape victims but still preach women empowerment in Lebanon

A recent post from the Free Patriotic Movement shamed women for being victims of rape, reflecting a wider issue of female empowerment in political parties.
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