Hussein Hayek has launched a ready-to-wear clothing brand named "Made in South Lebanon"; as the name implies, his products are manufactured locally. According to Hayek, the initiative aims to "rise from the destruction and overcome the losses caused by the Israeli war on Lebanon—which displaced thousands from their homes and villages—while simultaneously encouraging local industry,...
The "Dawruna" Association organized a seminar at the Tyre Cultural Forum titled "Reconstruction from a Feminist Perspective" to discuss the role of women in the post-war recovery process and the documentation of women's memories in Jabal Amel. The seminar highlighted women's experiences during displacement and return, emphasizing that reconstruction encompasses psychological and social dimensions alongside...
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
Women in the digital public sphere are disproportionately exposed to defamatory and threatening sexually explicit speech, aimed at forcing them to withdraw or practice self-censorship. This form of violence is read as an extension of digital violence within the public sphere, and not as isolated individual cases.
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...
