Has Hezbollah Won the Argument?
The talk everywhere was of war, but here the mood was breezy. Not a make-believe world, Saifi, but a parallel universe, no less real than any other one in this country. Sunday! In the wee ...
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Where To? – Amal Ghandour
At the time of the King’s speech, which touched on practically every milestone in the intractable struggle over Palestine, systemic Israeli confiscation of Palestinian land and resources ...
I Came Here to Humiliate America, Not to Praise It
In a very short but hellish period of ten months, all pretty much fell apart. Every day we are being treated to all manner of horrors being unleashed on Palestinians, young and old, babies ...
The Arab World’s New Political Orphans
The Arab World’s New Political Orphans You’re ...
The Questions We Asked Ourselves
The Questions We Asked Ourselves You’re ...
The Urge to Imagine the Unimaginable
Is such an argument–that a people must be permanently oppressed, dehumanized, frequently mowed down, and forced out of their land to guarantee the security and safety of their tormentors ...
Showdown!
Showdown! You’re looking at the border between ...
We’ve Been Here Before – Amal Ghandour
The immediate repercussions are the panoramas of dislocation as far as the eye can see, with over a million people from the suburbs, the Bekaa, and the south thrown asunder across ...
In Lebanon’s Greatest Hour of Need, Wisdom Or Schadenfreude?
The rest of the dislocated have dispersed everywhere in Lebanon, renting apartments or sheltering with family. These are very early days, but if you want to begin pondering the long term ...
In War, Nuance Is The First Casualty
In one of Beirut’s schools that has become the refuge of the displaced, the sweet man who works at the supermarket where I shop shelters with his family. His home in the southern suburbs ...
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