How Social Media Changed My Life
For quite some time now, I’ve been meaning to reflect on the impact of social media on my life. I guess now is the right time to do so, if...
Category: Articles
Adbusting The Mid-East Peace Talks
Israeli and Palestinian leaders have held their first direct negotiations in nearly two years, in Washington. US President Barack Obama made an appeal to the Israeli and Palestinian leaders on...
Missing The Train
There’s been a lot of talk lately of insufferable traffic jams and endless bottlenecks in and around Beirut. The influx of tourists and visiting Lebanese expats has surely exacerbated the...
Carlos Latuff Creates BDS Photos For Activists
Brazilian cartoonist Carlos Lattuf created a series of photos on Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel to be used by activists. These images are Copyleft, which means that BDS...
All It Took Was A Tweet
On Wednesday, 7 July 2010, CNN fired its Senior Editor of Middle East Affairs Octavia Nasr (@OctaviaNasr) over her Tweet following the death of Lebanese religious leader Sayyed Mohammad Hussein...
Note To Self And Selves
That’s life: you set a goal and you do your best to reach it, sometimes you achieve it, sometimes you don’t, but you can and should be proud of your...
Dear Mr. President, Remember Your Words
During his 4 June 2009 speech at Cairo university, US President Barack Obama stated: “Given our interdependence, any world order that elevates one nation or group of people over another...
The Story Of Sandra
Today’s Labor Day. This year, activists and organizations rallied to recognize the illegal, inhuman and unethical working conditions of migrant workers in Lebanon as well as the Arab World. To...
This Is Lebanon: Family Matters More Than You
At a recent job interview, the interviewer asked me to tell him more about myself. But to know me, he wanted to know about my family. “Why are you asking...
