Culture & Society

Rebecca Whiting
Sitting on the crowded bus watching the driver avidly type away on his smartphone, possibly glancing at the road once every ten seconds, the...
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
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Rajana Hamyeh
In the southern suburbs of Beirut sits Hay al-Sellom, an agglomeration of concrete and tin shacks adjacent to the Ghadir River.
Thursday, January 10, 2013
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Saleh Thabah
Historians may differ as to when modern Egyptian cinema emerged, but it was not far behind the late 19th century inception of cinema in the rest of...
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
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The storm that hit Lebanon over the weekend has killed four people and injured 50 more across the country. It has also revealed the magnitude of the...
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
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Afif Diab
Tufail, a mountain town of 700, sits on the edge of Lebanon’s border with Syria. Though Lebanese, the town has no roads connecting it to Lebanon and...
Monday, January 7, 2013
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Linah Alsaafin
On 7 December 2012, a six-member Jordanian band, Autostrad, played a concert for a mostly Palestinian audience in Nazareth.
Sunday, January 6, 2013
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Rebecca Whiting
The situation of migrant domestic workers in Lebanon, structured by a lack of protective labor laws and a culture of racial inequality, marks a huge...
Sunday, January 6, 2013
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Faten Elhajj
After a 50-day strike, full-time professors at the Lebanese University were successful in obtaining an increase in their salary scale. Now, the fight...
Friday, January 4, 2013
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Jamal Jubran
Sanaa – Tawakkol Karman, born 1979, seems to have lost her grip on reality. When the Yemeni activist won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011, she was the...
Thursday, January 3, 2013
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