Today, with shifting internal and regional conditions, and the growing costs of reliance on weapons—especially after the latest Israeli war—a quiet, self-evident question emerges: How can dignity and security be safeguarded through a just state, rather than through parallel channels?
The “war of support,” this catastrophe, if it can be called that, is one of the deepest and most challenging calamities to have befallen the Shia community since the establishment of Greater Lebanon. Never before in their history have the Shia in Lebanon felt such anxieties about uprooting, displacement, or extermination as they do today.
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...
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...
A combination of real and tangible facts justifies the circulation of some news indicating displacement. The systematic destruction and continuous burning of southern villages, which Israel employs in its horrific raids and brutal artillery shelling, reinforces in the hearts of southerners that deadly feeling of the disappearance of homes, and of the impossibility of returning...
Our opposition stemmed from our desire to live within a tolerant society. Lebanese Shiite society was more tolerant before Hezbollah took control of its most basic aspects, and before expressing natural feelings became shameful, classified as treason and grounds for accusations of treason.
Verbal abuse is contagious, and it is primarily acquired through family upbringing. The person who threatens you with the most obscene phrases and describes you with the filthiest attributes on social media sites, do not forget that in his childhood he suffered what you are suffering from him.
