A new era for Lebanese journalism?
As 2015 comes to a close, it’s important to look back at the ways the Lebanese press behaved unexpectedly…
Company uses images of abused women to sell apartments
Text above reads roughly: “What are you waiting for? 0 percent downpayment. Now you can be independent” It’s…
Support this refugee-run food truck
As we pick through the ashes of last weeks tragedies, often despairing or overanalyzing, a story of hope…
Framing tragedy, post Beirut/Paris coverage
I spoke to Al Jazeera program The Stream this week during a special about how Beirut and Paris…
Abou Rakhousa and the politics of poverty
I’m hearing a lot of people say street protests are dying out in Beirut, though there are…
Activists assaulted in downtown Beirut for baking MPs a cake
Activists have just been assaulted by Lebanese security forces after they say they had baked a cake to…
Urban intervention at Boutros Road
Following resistance to a municipal plan to create a highway that would bulldoze a historic part of Beirut,…
How did Minister Bassil acquire $22M of real estate?
Lebanese broadcaster LBC has just released a fascinating report detailing the curious and multi-million dollar real estate holdings…
When a state fears protests, not militias
The passing away of Zahle MP Elias Skaff last week after a “long (unspecified) illness” has opened an…
Poverty and abuse in the Bekaa
Once again, winter is approaching and Lebanon not only faces the environmental disaster of garbage soaking into the…