Walid el Houri is a researcher, journalist, and filmmaker based between Berlin and Beirut. He is Partnerships editor at openDemocracy and lead editor of its North Africa West Asia section (NAWA). He holds a PhD in Media Studies from the University of Amsterdam and is a former postdoctoral fellow at the Forum Transregionale Studien (EUME) and the Institute for Cultural Inquiry in Berlin. His work and publications deal with protest movements, the politics of failure, and geographies of war and violence.
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionAfter nine months of waiting, Lebanon has neither a government nor accountabilityAs Saad Hariri steps down, anger is still growing at a political class that has led the country into an ever deeper...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: FeatureEgyptian student of gender and religion jailed for terrorism on visit homeCrackdown on freedoms is intensifying with the arrest of Ahmed Samir Santawy – the latest student to be locked up on...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionWhat the assassination of Lokman Slim tells us about LebanonIn a country where impunity is the rule, those who murdered Slim can be sure that everyone will know who they are,...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionLebanon’s protesters want an end to incompetence, corruption and impunityThe country’s COVID-19 response has been a disaster – but the people expected nothing else after decades of abysmal...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaIs Lebanon becoming a police state?A year after protests swept the country, two and a half months after the Beirut port explosion, the Lebanese elite...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaLebanon’s deadly blast: when corruption turned into carnageSince the massive explosion, the state has been absent, leaving people to fend for themselves – while leaders seem...