Tag: #Beirut
Day 78: Ports, public utilities and banks
Protesters in Lebanon rung in the new year by pressuring different public institutions they see as corrupt and inefficient.
From Tripoli to Tyre: Protesters in Lebanon form first ever nationwide human chain
More than 170,000 people held hands to cover a 171-kilometer distance along Lebanon’s coastal roads, from Tripoli in the North to Tyre in the South.
Beirut Pride suspends opening night until further notice
Statements from both the queer community in Lebanon and religious authorities called for its boycott, but for vastly different reasons.
On Egyptian Rock N’ Activism: We talked to Massar Egbari at their Beirut concert
Five Egyptian musicians walk into Bayt Em Nazih and set the crowd on fire with their unique blend of rock and social activism.
Beirut’s historic landmarks between resilience and destruction: the case of Vendome Stairs
In recent years, several civil society groups have fought to protect what little is left of public spaces in Beirut.
Redefining Drag: The Political, Fierce, and Daring Arab Perspective
Rather than imitating the West, the Arab community has turned drag into its own.
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.
Happy Earth Day, try to do the bare minimum to save our planet
The secret services of the world probably never had to hide evidence of extraterrestrial life.
Creative Space Beirut: Inside Lebanon’s only free fashion school
Lebanon seems like too sterile a landscape to launch a free fashion school. Yet Creative Space Beirut exists in it as the only free fashion school in the Middle East.
On they march: Hundreds protest for women’s rights in Lebanon
Women in Lebanon are angry, and rightfully so. Nationality, criminal, personal status, and labour laws.