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 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...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: InvestigationOxford and other top British universities under fire for sending students to illegal Israeli settlementsAmnesty says the universities are “actively linking themselves to a whole system of illegality, discrimination and...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaLebanon: a revolution redefining a countryIt will be long. A regime as old as the Lebanese one will not go without a fight.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaIn Lebanon: new waves of hatred with little solidarityThe needed solidarity with Mashrou’ Leila has unintentionally overshadowed the thousands of Palestinian voices...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThere is a rotten stench coming from LebanonLebanese Minister of Foreign Affairs, Gebran Bassil tweeted as he usually does, yet another series of racist tweets.