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Pierre Abisaab
We spent an exceptional evening at Babel Theater in Beirut Thursday night at the opening of “Where can I find someone like you, Ali?,” a play written...
Monday, February 23, 2015
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Abdel Kafi al-Samad
There is debate underway in Tripoli today as to what should happen to the city’s al-Tal Square. The debate is not concerned with possible ways to...
Thursday, February 19, 2015
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Rana Harbi
In an attempt to empower Syrian women refugees and help them better integrate into Lebanese society, INTERSOS, a non-profit humanitarian aid...
Thursday, February 19, 2015
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Muhib Gameel
Maurice Louca’s second album “Benhayyi al-Baghbaghan” [We Salute the Parrot] (Nawa Records, 2014), his most important work so far, took him almost...
Thursday, February 19, 2015
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Shams Abdi
In Tunisia, art has always been a vocation fraught with difficulties. Before the Tunisian revolution of January 14th, Tunisian artists were censored...
Saturday, February 14, 2015
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Mona Merhi
Lebanese director and actor Ziad Abou Absi has returned to Monnot Theater to stage Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen’s masterpiece “A Doll’s House.”...
Friday, February 13, 2015
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Eva Shoufi
It is no longer possible for the media and state institutions in Lebanon to continue to deal with weather and climate issues in the same manner. The...
Friday, February 13, 2015
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Rana Harbi, Nasser Elamine, Jinan Mantash
Last week, an otherwise fruitless dialogue between rival political parties Hezbollah and the Future Movement culminated in a decision to remove all...
Thursday, February 12, 2015
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Eva Shoufi
In the past years, new demographic groups have been introduced to Lebanon, creating a population pyramid that has been described as a “miracle,” a...
Wednesday, February 11, 2015
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