The world celebrated International Women’s Day on March 8, with massive rallies like those in Turkey and Spain making major headlines. Lebanon, too, celebrated IWD, albeit on Sunday – perhaps to accommodate for working women who can’t leave their jobs in the middle of the week to protest. “Our causes
On Wednesday the story of infamous YouTuber Adam Saleh being kicked off a plane for allegedly speaking Arabic went viral, flooding our timelines with condemnations and statuses of solidarity. While various aggregated reproductions provided only his side of the story in which he cries racism, very few publications delivered context
According to a report published by al-Joumhouria, and which quotes the Internal Security Forces, suicide rates in Lebanon are on the rise. Numbers have been steadily increasing from 101 people killing themselves in 2011, to 108 in 2012, to 111 in 2013, to 143 in 2014. 2015 was not mentioned,
Ramadan means a lot of things to a lot of people, but alongside being a month devoted for observance and fasting, it is one that encourages donating to charity, i.e. zakat. So what better way to give meaning to the holy Muslim month than by helping feed needy kids? A