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What about Lebanon?
Despite the Supreme Military Council’s condemnation of additional strikes and protests, nearly 2,000 people gathered today in Cairo’s Tahrir Square. Simultaneously, hundreds of Egyptian policemen...
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Mleeta: Celebrating Resistance
Hizballah's flag and Lebanon's flag, side by sideWhen I had first heard that Hizballah constructed Mleeta, an interactive museum that showcases 24 years of resistance against Israel and her Lebanese...
View ArticleDabke in Beirut – VIDEO
Every so often something wonderful happens. Random individuals, decidedly bored with the status quo mundane presence of their surroundings, bust out beautiful – or even awkward – dance moves to music...
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Bay-root
Bay-root lebanon is where my roots are. it’s where my mother grew up, where she gracefully dodged shrapnel in her sleep, and where she drank homemade arak. lebanon is where she wept, where she laughed,...
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How to Free Palestine
Neither Fatah nor Hamas will end the Zionist Occupation of Palestine. And neither current nor upcoming Palestinian faction (violent and nonviolent alike) can end the Israeli Occupation of Palestine....
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NATO in Libya: The Syrian Script
Maybe what is happening in Libya is a check-mate situation. Libyans have no moves to make except the ones they are making. The Baathist Syrian president (1966-1970) Salah Jadeed deployed Syrian...
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A Shakira Shitstorm in Beirut
Contributed by Ali Abbas. Anyone who has tuned in to one of Lebanon’s several Pop radio stations in the past two months is well aware that Shakira will soon be performing for a Lebanese audience. The...
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Nasrallah Dropped the Ball
When he entered the topic of Syria, Nasrallah was unusually reading verbatim from notes that sounded like they were written by the Syrian regime’s ministry of propaganda (while occasionally adding his...
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When Walls Speak
Memoirs of a House Contributed by Abdul-Rahman Zahzah This text is dedicated to Maha, who gently held my hand and walked me thru the narrow streets and the old houses of 3ein Mreisseh, when we first...
View ArticleThe Struggle to End Domestic Slavery in Lebanon
Contributed by Alex Shams Since uprisings began rocking the Arab World last December, I’ve watched far more Youtube videos documenting horrifically violent incidents than I like to think about. There...
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