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Lebanon Court Rules Being Gay Does Not Violate ‘Laws Of Nature’
The Lebanese penal code states that sexual relations that contradict the “laws of nature” are punishable by one year in prison.—After criminal charges were filed by the Lebanese state against a...
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It Took Living on the Inside to See Jarheads As Individual Marines—And How...
“Many were eighteen, and I was someone who might have known them socially, in another place and another time.” ______I was born in Jacksonville, North Carolina, home of Camp Lejeune Marine Corps base....
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Is Engaging Iraq a Humanitarian Imperative or Military Folly?
World involvement in Iraq is critical to saving lives and preventing a destabilized region from erupting into full chaos with disastrous worldwide implicationsUS military has engaged in air strikes...
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What We Can Learn About the Value of Life From the Paris Attacks
“What we must decide is how we are valuable, rather than how valuable we are.” Edgar Friedenberg —I’ve been doing a little solo parenting for the last few days and ever since news starting coming...
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Hello, My Name Is Luay. I Was a Refugee
Luay Al Khatteeb can identify with the plight of refugees and with the countries struggling to provide for them. That doesn’t excuse us from helping.—Once upon a time I was a refugee who, unlike many...
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Bourj el-Barajneh
Bourj el-BarajnehBeirut is burningbut all eyes turn tola tour Eiffel,thirty years olderthan mandates leavingFrench to echothrough Lebanon’s streets.Echoes likebomb blastsscreams reverberatingin...
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The Shoe Business Uniting Races and Religions to Coexist in The Middle East
In 1942, the Kibbutz Naot Mordechai members founded the kibbutz shoe business. They did not imagine that their shoes would be worn all over the world, but it is now Israel’s leading manufacturer and...
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Gender Stereotyped Roles and the Middle East
Embed from Getty Images—Joana Aziz is a student in Spain. She is a friend with experience growing up in Syria followed by Lebanon. Now, as a student, she is in graduate school. I wanted to get her...
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Tim Murphy on How He Drew from His Queer and Arab Identities To Craft His...
— Correspondents is reminiscent of works like Michael Cunningham’s Flesh and Blood, Jeffrey Eugenides’ Middlesex, and Michael Chabon’s The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay; it is truly a delight to read...
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I Remember: Lebanon Through Five-Year-Old Eyes
Five years old. I remember the Mediterranean. Gliding over it. Stepping out the airplane, the smell of the sea’s salt and olive groves filling my nostrils. Hugging grandpa, the grinning man I had never...
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Lebanon: Demotivational Humour on Facebook
— By Thalia Rahme Internet memes are just as popular in the Arab world as elsewhere. Recently a number of Facebook pages have been started about specifically Lebanese memes. In this post Global Voices...
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My Daily Life in Lebanon
00:00 Lebanon is a really interesting very 00:01 small country in the Middle East that 00:02 I’ve actually wanted to visit for a very 00:04 long time and then the moment I booked 00:06 my flights it...
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10 Things Not to do in Lebanon
00:00 I’m already on a new adventure someone 00:01 here in the Middle East not gonna tell 00:03 you where yes yet but right now I still 00:04 want to tell you quite a few epic things 00:06 about...
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Top 11 Coolest Places to Visit in Lebanon
. . Transcript provided by YouTube: 00:00 today we’re going to be talking about 00:01 the coolest 11 places to visit in this 00:03 tiny Middle Eastern country called lemon 00:06 I’m gonna start...
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My Life in Syria vs Lebanon: 10 Major Differences [Video]
. . Transcript provided by YouTube: 00:00 before the world completely changed 00:02 because of the coronavirus pandemic i 00:04 was lucky enough to get to explore both 00:06 syria and lebanon in...
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From Eritrea To Tanzania, the World’s Strictest – and Most – Relaxed Lockdowns
By Al Arabiya Jennifer Bell A year into the coronavirus pandemic, and some remote parts of the world remain in some of the strictest lockdowns to curb the spread of the virus, according to the...
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Beirut: A Taste of Crisis Through a Cup of Coffee
By Omar Boutine Hamra, a famous boulevard in Beirut, is a coffee lover’s haven — or perhaps it would be more apt to say that it was. Ranked by the World Bank among the top 10, if not three, most...
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Adolescent Girls Face Severe Threats in Crisis and Conflict – And We Must...
By Katrina Lee-Koo Despite the prevalence of security threats facing adolescent girls in conflict and crisis contexts, write Katrina Lee-Koo and Eleanor Gordon, they are rarely engaged in efforts to...
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The Importance of Positivity in Negotiations To Eliminate Weapons of Mass...
By Tony Robinson On Monday 14th November, the third session of the UN Conference on the Establishment of a Middle East Zone Free of Nuclear Weapons and Other Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDFZ)...
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Arrested Humor: Comedian Nour Hajjar Detained in Censorship Case
By SMEX This piece was first published by SMEX, on August 30, 2023, and was written by Safaa Ayyad. An edited version is republished here under a content-sharing agreement. Lebanon’s crackdown on...
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