Dissident Voice: From Korea to Libya: On the Future of Ukraine and NATO’s Neverending Wars

By Ramzy Baroud. Much has been said and written about media bias and double standards in the West’s response to the Russia-Ukraine war, when compared with other wars and military conflicts across the world, especially in the Middle East and the Global South. Less obvious is how such hypocrisy is a reflection of a much

Cyprus Mail: Just how bad is Lebanon’s economic meltdown?

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Thursday it had reached a preliminary agreement with Lebanon for a four-year extended fund facility that would only get full approval from the fund if Beirut enacts a series of reforms. An IMF deal is widely seen as the only way for Lebanon to begin to plot a

L’Orient Today: I’ll install them myself ’: NGO steps in to turn Beirut traffic lights back on

By Farah-Silvana Kanaan Gabriel Fernaine remembers the exact moment he came up with the idea to install traffic lights in Beirut. “I was driving towards the Burj al-Ghazal intersection and everything was pitch black. I couldn’t make out anything: streets, shops, people. Nothing. Not even the red traffic light was working. I looked over at

Executive Magazine: Reaping windfalls of inclusion – Where the moral and the economic right align

By Thomas Schellen. Once upon a time in the North – before conflicts in the hills of this country were fought to the point of slaughter among cousins – a young women of high social standing announced to her father and her peers that she was going to be a serious journalist. Shock. Her social

TRT World: Lebanon’s prisons: A microcosm of disease, sectarianism and near-anarchy

By Priyanka Navani. Inter-ministerial wrangling over the control of the prison facilities coupled with police brutality and a lack of funding has exacerbated the human rights situation of incarcerated people in the country. In an already-lawless Lebanon, prisons border on purgatories.  Roumieh, for example, the country’s largest detention facility – which only years ago held

Medical Humanities: Beirut and the Perpetual War

By Chris Pak. Film Review written by Nahed Salah, Egyptian film critic and book author ‘Youssef’ (Kazim Fayyad, Lebanon, 2021) winner of the best first feature in Alexandria Film Festival 2021. Recent events in Beirut portray a significantly different picture from the one often celebrated in poetry, music, and classical films as ‘a city of