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A Sad Day with a Silver Lining
Atalwin Pilon shares his story of globe-trotting, heartbreak, and new friends. Atalwin Pilon is currently on a trip around the world. This is his latest dispatch. To read more about Atalwin’s travels,...
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The Shadow of Beauty
Atalwin Polin talks about a reader’s kind contribution to his journey and the movement again Islamist free speech in Turkey. Atalwin Pilon is currently on a trip around the world. This is his latest...
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NBC News Crew Released From Captivity in Syria
Richard Engel and his production crew were in captivity for five days, but made it out physically unscathed to be reunited with friends and family. NBC News reported Tuesday morning that their Chief...
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Syria’s Refugees: What Happens to Those Displaced by Violence?
Chris Hicke doesn’t want the 6 million Syrian refugees to be forgotten. —- As I’m sure most are well aware, recent events in Syria brought the Middle East, if not the world, the closest to World War...
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Psychology and the Chance of Bringing Peace to Syria
With 100,000 people killed and 10 million displaced, is there hope for peace in Syria? Yes. But only if we can overcome the self-defeating psychology of revenge. — By Ian H Robertson, Trinity College...
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Lebanon Court Rules Being Gay Does Not Violate ‘Laws Of Nature’
The Lebanese penal code states that sexual relations that contradict the “laws of nature” are punishable by one year in prison. — After criminal charges were filed by the Lebanese state against a...
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It Took Living on the Inside to See Jarheads As Individual Marines—And How...
“Many were eighteen, and I was someone who might have known them socially, in another place and another time.” ______ I was born in Jacksonville, North Carolina, home of Camp Lejeune Marine Corps...
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Is Engaging Iraq a Humanitarian Imperative or Military Folly?
World involvement in Iraq is critical to saving lives and preventing a destabilized region from erupting into full chaos with disastrous worldwide implications US military has engaged in air strikes...
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When the World Falls Apart, How to Move From Anger to Love
The story behind Soul Fam’s new release, Envision, and how the gift of poetry and music carried one artist into a place of love and compassion. — This week has been an emotional roller coaster for me....
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What We Can Learn About the Value of Life From the Paris Attacks
“What we must decide is how we are valuable, rather than how valuable we are.” Edgar Friedenberg — I’ve been doing a little solo parenting for the last few days and ever since news starting coming...
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Hello, My Name Is Luay. I Was a Refugee
Luay Al Khatteeb can identify with the plight of refugees and with the countries struggling to provide for them. That doesn’t excuse us from helping. — Once upon a time I was a refugee who, unlike...
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Bourj el-Barajneh
Bourj el-Barajneh Beirut is burning but all eyes turn to la tour Eiffel, thirty years older than mandates leaving French to echo through Lebanon’s streets. Echoes like bomb blasts screams...
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The Shoe Business Uniting Races and Religions to Coexist in The Middle East
In 1942, the Kibbutz Naot Mordechai members founded the kibbutz shoe business. They did not imagine that their shoes would be worn all over the world, but it is now Israel’s leading manufacturer and...
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Gender Stereotyped Roles and the Middle East
Embed from Getty Images — Joana Aziz is a student in Spain. She is a friend with experience growing up in Syria followed by Lebanon. Now, as a student, she is in graduate school. I wanted to get her...
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Tim Murphy on How He Drew from His Queer and Arab Identities To Craft His...
— Correspondents is reminiscent of works like Michael Cunningham’s Flesh and Blood, Jeffrey Eugenides’ Middlesex, and Michael Chabon’s The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay; it is truly a delight to read...
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I Remember: Lebanon Through Five-Year-Old Eyes
Five years old. I remember the Mediterranean. Gliding over it. Stepping out the airplane, the smell of the sea’s salt and olive groves filling my nostrils. Hugging grandpa, the grinning man I had never...
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Lebanon: Demotivational Humour on Facebook
— By Thalia Rahme Internet memes are just as popular in the Arab world as elsewhere. Recently a number of Facebook pages have been started about specifically Lebanese memes. In this post Global Voices...
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My Daily Life in Lebanon
00:00 Lebanon is a really interesting very 00:01 small country in the Middle East that 00:02 I’ve actually wanted to visit for a very 00:04 long time and then the moment I booked 00:06 my flights it...
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10 Things Not to do in Lebanon
00:00 I’m already on a new adventure someone 00:01 here in the Middle East not gonna tell 00:03 you where yes yet but right now I still 00:04 want to tell you quite a few epic things 00:06 about...
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Top 11 Coolest Places to Visit in Lebanon
. . Transcript provided by YouTube: 00:00 today we’re going to be talking about 00:01 the coolest 11 places to visit in this 00:03 tiny Middle Eastern country called lemon 00:06 I’m gonna start...
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