Municipality without a website or public budget
Yes that’s right, Beirut a city with over a million residents and among the most influential in the…
National dialogue: a theater of the absurd
Lebanon’s “national” dialogue began today– a meeting of high level leaders, millionaires, billionaires former warlords that used to…
Media, activists shut out of municipality talks once again
AUB engineering students have arranged a rare question and answer session with the mayor of Beirut over the…
Journalistic dilemmas: cakes, priests and the presidency
In journalism school, there are debates about what a reporter can ethically accept from a source. Gifts and…
Shootings today in Lebanon and the US
By now, much of the world knows there has been a gun battle in Lebanon. The shooting, which…
“Beirut-ing” or BS-ing?
The photo above was posted on the site “Beirut-ing,” a very popular local events site. The headline: “Snow…
Update: Daily Beast removes “worst countries to visit” article
After an uproar from critics, The Daily Beast has removed an article that labeled Lebanon and four other…
The misguided Beast
So by now you have heard that “The Daily Beast” has rated Lebanon the worst place in the…
The paralysis of self-loathing
The following piece was published in the May issue of Bold Magazine, but both the subject and self-loathing…
How Lebanon blew its Marshall Plan and other sobering figures
Former Labor Minister Charbel Nahas provided some sobering statistics at today’s City Debates conference at AUB. Chief among…