on the structural components behind the racialization and dehumanization of migrant domestic workers in Lebanon
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Stopping the Bisri Dam: From Local to National Contestation
The Lebanese government has decided to go ahead with the construction of a controversial dam in the Bisri Valley ignoring criticism of the project’s impact on the environment.
Lebanon’s Migrant Domestic Workers: Between the Coronavirus and Slavery
I spoke with Banchi Yimer, founder of Egna Legna who define themselves as “community-based feminist activists working on migrant domestic workers’ issues and general women’s issues in Lebanon and Ethiopia.”
Memes and Collapse: An Alternative View of Lebanon’s October 17 Protests
This piece looks at some of the attempts to address this widespread feeling of inevitable collapse.
The Kafala System is ‘Civilized’ Slavery
We go back to the summer of 2018 when I sat down with Sami, a Beirut-based Ethiopian activist with, Mesewat, a solidarity network that supports migrant workers in Lebanon and the Middle East, and Ali, an activist with the Anti-Racism Movement.
Lebanon: The Revolution Four Months In
How can an understanding of Lebanese history help us understand the situation? What can we learn from the Lebanese uprising that could inform struggles against capitalism, sectarianism, and the state worldwide?
Syrian melancholy in Lebanon’s revolution
Syrians in Lebanon have greeted the country’s uprising with a complex blend of joy, envy, melancholy, and fear.
Ghassan Halwani and the reclaiming of Lebanon’s imaginaries
How is the October 17 Revolution catalysing the reclaiming of imaginaries?
The Lebanese Revolution Must Abolish the Kafala System (Part 2)
According to Lebanon’s own intelligence agency, migrant domestic workers are dying at a rate of two per week.
Launch of new book of Syrian citizen journalism
First English-language collection of writing from revolutionary newspaper ‘Enab Baladi’
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