Revitalizing nature reserves in the south requires close cooperation between central state institutions and municipalities, along with active environmental associations and local communities, through adherence to laws and away from partisan political interests.

The Arqoub region, like other areas, did not demand the impossible, reflecting an exceptional political and pragmatic awareness. This is especially true given that the absence of the state in Arqoub did not foster any support, even superficially, for militia rule or the rule of regional factions, despite some isolated instances of dissent. On the...

When the state is able to impose authority and security and hold accountable those who attack southerners affiliated with the dominant powers, this will open the way for freedom of candidacy and political activity, which will produce healthy practices and reduce incidents of repression and attacks carried out under the cover of parties, at which...

Since 2006, the “Promise” and “Reconstruction Jihad” have filled the state vacuum and amassed a loyal base of support. The Syrian war then solidified the intertwining of “regional security” and the “national pact,” transforming the debate into accusations of treason. With the recent tensions, we are living under implicit rules of engagement, a politics dictated...

That was my first encounter with ceilings, and with fear that stifles and obscures, until reading becomes merely a passive reception process in which we have no critical mind.

How did we in our region become at odds with music and singing? How did these restrictions that define what is permissible to listen to and what is not come about? How did the songs of Fairouz, Sabah and Wadih El Safi become forbidden?

There is no doubt that the Lebanese state is weak and fragile, if we understand "state" as the political authority and the bureaucratic apparatus that manages it. Indeed, it is extremely weak and fragile. However, authority is not the only pillar of the state; the state has three fundamental pillars: territory, people, and authority.

Wars have left behind a lot of destruction, and public spaces are nothing but a place for social cohesion, and a source of human ideas for peace against death, for reconstruction against destruction, for the sustainability of resources against harming the environment, and for citizenship and the state project.

How can we expect a professor to teach the values ​​of freedom, courage, and pure citizenship, while he is subservient to a leader or affiliated with a party, movement, or current? How will his students identify with him except by becoming an automatic copy of him?