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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaLebanon: reflections on acts of refusal as antidote to post-election hangoverThe refusal to be complicit in the state's self-preservation attempt is one of the few acts of resistance the...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaHumanitarian response in Lebanon: changing social norms or reproducing them?While gendered realities are increasingly acknowledged and addressed by international organisations and agencies, in...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaIsrael complains about violation of its sovereignty while being a serial violatorIn the 4-month period from 1 July to 30 October 2017, Israel violated Lebanon’s airspace 758 times for a total of...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaNot a Saudi ‘Arab spring’: Mohammad Bin Salman, a threat not a reformer [Part 2]Mohammad bin Salman is now MENA’s main threat to peace, stability, and hope for democratization in the Arab world.
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Published in: HomeLet’s not ‘politicise’: let’s skill"We are very aware, when it comes to the whole Greek experience, that one of the problems the political left faces...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaKurds’ choices: heed history or the US?Who controls Syria’s borders? The US and Israel are encouraging Syrian Kurds to fight the regime and its allies for...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaAll ‘hail’ the real kingThe Saudi Monarch’s 4 November purge threatens the kingdom’s longstanding policy on dynastic rule, and paves the way...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaLebanon’s enduring contradictionsA century later, and after several civil wars and invasions, not much has changed in how different Lebanese...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaRace and exploitation in the GulfIt is time for the issue of race to become central to any discussion on the continued exploitation of workers in the Gulf.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Letter from a recovering Team Syntegrity 2017 participant"In this exercise, we were forced to sit side by side and face to face and discuss diverse issues reasonably,...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaLebanon: between normalised violence and a politics of kindnessIt is hard to ignore the level of xenophobia and violence, verbal and physical, that exists today in Lebanon.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaSolidarity is not a crimeWhat is fighting terrorism when the threat of military trials and repression comes about for the strange ‘crime’ of...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaLebanon: statement of condemnation and clarification by the Socialist ForumOn the 16th of July, 2017, the Socialist Forum issued the following statement explaining its decision to cancel a...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaSupporting refugee livelihoods or host stability? The two sides of the coinFor many refugees, the humanitarian programmes focusing on "livelihoods" end up having merely an "accessory" role...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaLebanon in the eye of the regional stormHizbollah’s proven armed capability in Syria, Israel’s perceived political defeat in 2006, coupled with a possible...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia‘Lost in Lebanon’ explores restless wait for returnThe film examines various dimensions of loss through a new concept of life in exile, in a country where precarious...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaCan Lebanon’s sectarian elite agree on an electoral law?The electoral law impasse is yet further proof of how all political matters can be instrumentalized in a bigoted...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe quiet resistance of domestic workers in LebanonThe migrant women working in Lebanese homes have little in the way of protection or rights, but they find ways to...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaArab world’s first ordained female pastor is historicRola Sleiman made history. She now carries the title of ‘Reverend’ of the Presbyterian Church, the first woman to be...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia‘The intellectuals don’t have the answers’: Lebanese documentary wins at Berlinale"What can the ghosts of protests past tell us?" A particularly relevant question that Mary Jirmanus Saba's...
