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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...
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Beirut Today

Refugee children are targets of institutional racism in Lebanon, highlights report by ARM

A new report by the Anti-Racism Movement in Lebanon (linked here) shed a light on the racism that refugees and...
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عامر شيباني

Documenting the Syrian refugee population: Fear, hesitation & lack of support

“My son is inexistent. He is a human being of flesh and blood, but the government does not acknowledge his...
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عامر شيباني

The Lebanese law protects Syrian refugee women from violence

The Lebanese domestic violence law is applicable to all who face violence or exploitation, including refugees.
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Serene Abdul Baki

Eviction, Discrimination, and Legality: How Lebanon and its Municipalities Are Dealing With Syrian Refugees

At least 3,664 Syrian nationals were evicted by 13 municipalities around Lebanon between 2016 and 2018. Another 42,000 remain at risk of being homeless. But some municipalities have fared better.
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Karim Safieddine

Civil Society Organizations in Lebanon: Little Space for Refugee Advocacy?

Civil society in Lebanon has taken different forms and passed through various phases. It includes diverse political activist movements and...
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Sami Halabi

Blaming Syrians For Lebanon’s Problems Is Cowardly and Destructive

  Our foreign minister, our official representative to the world, demonstrated that racism has now become part of our national...
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Beirut Today

Crisis in South Sudan: What You Need to Know

South Sudan is experiencing a catastrophic humanitarian crisis placing millions in precarious conditions. Inter-communal violence and fighting between the two...
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Asmaa Jomha

Lebanese Citizens’ Forbidden Fruit: Seeking Asylum 

Lebanese citizens are leaving the country, or at least trying to.  In a time where allegedly immigrant-friendly countries are imposing...
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عامر شيباني

Lebanon’s housing crisis: On tenant rights, eviction, and the state

“We are on the verge of a displacement crisis.” It is with these words that Jana Haidar, Housing Monitor Coordinator...
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Mariam and her family, refugees in Lebanon. (Mercy Corps | Corinna Robbins)
Cynthia Saghir

Propagating a Hostile Narrative towards Syrian refugees is more harmful than helpful to the Lebanese economy

Lebanese politicians have taken Syrian refugees as the scapegoat for all the political, economic, social & environmental turmoil that predate their arrival. 
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Serene Abdul Baki

“Ahla Fawda” Keeping Akkar’s Feet Warm

The NGO’s most recent initiative, the “Warm Feet Campaign”, seeks to provide cloth donations to refugee camps, with a  focus on gathering shoes.
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Chermine S. Haidar

Myanmar’s Ethnic Cleansing: What’s Behind Your Screen

Last August the Rohingya living in Myanmar witnessed the beginning of an age filled with atrocities and massacres. Militants attacked...
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