How can the Shiite community return to the fold of the state amidst the equation of armed power, regional pressures, and domestic calculations? In this interview, Mounir Younis explains the true predicament following the 2024 war: there can be no disarmament without a deal, and no deal without a role for the state. Where do...
How can the Shiite community return to the fold of the state amidst the equation of armed power, regional pressures, and domestic calculations? In this interview, Mounir Younis explains the true predicament following the 2024 war: there can be no disarmament without a deal, and no deal without a role for the state. Where do...
Amidst debates over arms and sovereignty, the conversation regarding the Shiite individual and their daily suffering in the South is conspicuously absent. There is no national discourse to reassure families who have lost their homes or are seeking schools for their children, nor is there a clear vision for the future of this community, which...
The losses in the South extend beyond material destruction to affect the people themselves. Young lives have been lost, along with efforts and energies that could have been invested in building the nation rather than burying it. Today, the South is a place of expanding graveyards and bleeding towns—a region devastated in the fullest humanitarian...
Debate is once again intensifying regarding the expatriate vote in the Lebanese parliamentary elections scheduled for next year, amidst attempts by the Amal-Hezbollah duo to limit expatriate voting to six seats, while parliamentary blocs demand that it encompass all parliamentary seats... Researcher and analyst specializing in the Lebanese diaspora file
تتعرض النساء في الفضاء الرقمي العام بشكل غير متناسب لخطاب جنسي صريح تشهيري وتهديدي، يهدف إلى إجبارهن على الانسحاب أو ممارسة الرقابة الذاتية. يُنظر إلى هذا النوع من العنف على أنه امتداد للعنف الرقمي في الفضاء العام، وليس مجرد حالات فردية معزولة.
I realize implicitly that with my voice, my anger, and my oppression, I cannot change what the people of this environment have been accustomed to for a long time. But this war has surpassed its counterparts in criminality, and it has made change a possibility. I found that many of them object secretly and suppress...
The Shiite arena witnessed a clear emergence of some voices opposed to the party’s recent military adventures, which objected to its practices, but the network of primary relationships within families and villages was quickly able to contain and hide these voices.
The scene was divided into two images: mothers weeping for their sons who were martyred while resisting Israel, and others weeping for their sons who disappeared into the darkness of Syrian prisons. Here, the theory of the “other” is manifested in its most glorious form, for every “other” has an enemy, every “other” has a...
