Beirut never healed. It just learned to accept its predicament. Beirut, like our parents, is not resilient. It is broken.
Category: lebanon
Lebanon’s multiple crises also expose the racist Kafala system
on the structural components behind the racialization and dehumanization of migrant domestic workers in Lebanon
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.
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.
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’
The Lebanese revolution must abolish the kafala system
The same system that we are seeking to change is abusing hundreds of thousands of foreign workers.
Lebanon: A Revolution against Sectarianism
In this thorough account of the events of the past month, an on-the-ground participant describes the Lebanese uprising in detail, exploring how it has undermined patriarchal structures and transcended religious divisions to bring people together against the ruling class.
A look at the Lebanon uprising through its chants
The uprising in Lebanon has unleashed a wave of creativity that continues to rock the very foundations of Lebanese politics.
Lebanon, our painfully ordinary country
A new book by Cambridge University's Andrew Arsan arguing Lebanon is "a microcosm of the contemporary world" successfully analyzes the country's ills, offering a helpful framework for Lebanese seeking change.
Lebanon’s “Others,” part 1: Palestinians and Syrians
Drawing on James Baldwin to explore "Othering" in Lebanon.
Lebanon’s militarized masculinity
militarized masculinities found company in widespread discourses demonizing those who don’t fit within rigid gender binaries and sectarian/class calculations.
Sleepless nights: confessing without the confession
“We hear many of these stories in the documentary, stories that exemplify Lebanon’s extraordinary tendency to defy whatever would seem to be in its own self-interest”
Why cycling in Lebanon matters
I explore how cycling initiatives could empower a re-negotiation of space from private to public.
How one mapping project is challenging Lebanon’s ‘amnesia’ towards its own past
An ambitious mapping project by Lebanon Support and forumZFD puts together over 156 initiatives dedicated to addressing the country’s past.
Why Syrian refugees in Lebanon fear going back to an Assad-controlled Syria
Syrian refugees in Lebanon fear reprisals by the Assad regime in the form of homelessness, forced conscription, torture, or worse.
In conversation with the director of ‘Submarine’ (2016), Mounia Akl
In conversation with the director of ‘Submarine’ (2016), Mounia Akl
