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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaUnderground Botox: what is essential and what is not during a global pandemic?
COVID-19 might have changed people’s perception of what is considered essential, but the perception of necessities...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaPoverty or virus? Lebanon’s uprising continues despite the pandemic
Despite increasing protests, the coronavirus crisis remains a double-edged sword for the Lebanese uprising.
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Published in: 50.50Stuck in a foreign land with no passport or work
I support family in Ethiopia, have to pay my Lebanese sponsor who keeps my passport - and my cleaning work has...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaWhat the coronavirus outbreak means for thousands of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon
Without access to health care, anxieties and fear intensified as refugees face the increasing threat of a COVID-19 outbreak.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaEthiopians in Lebanon: between revolution and slavery
The Ethiopian government continues to sidestep taking any meaningful action to rescue citizens trapped in revolution...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaFilming Syria: the politics of access
Does Ahmad Ghossein's film contribute to the erasure of the history of the Syrian revolution?
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia“Where are my rights?” African refugees vs. UNHCR in Lebanon
A new episode unfolds in the long history of tensions between African refugees, migrants, and asylum seekers and UNHCR.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaGrappling between past and future: will Lebanon’s political economy reproduce itself?
Will Harirism resuscitate yet again, perhaps under a different face, or will the Lebanese people successfully bury it?
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Europe’s migration tourniquet comes full circle
For every asylum application that was accepted in the EU last year, two were rejected. Anti-migration rhetoric has...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaMutations of Arab political filmmaking
The 2011 uprisings marked a turning point, as new forms of cinematic language and style began to emerge.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaSeven Ethiopians die in Lebanon while their consulate abandons them
The steady stream of coffins being shipped from Lebanon to Ethiopia, won’t be slowing any time soon.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaLebanon's "October revolution" : An end to the civil war?
Since October 17, the walls of fear began to crumble under the weight of the ever-growing economic crisis.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaLebanon: a revolution redefining a country
It will be long. A regime as old as the Lebanese one will not go without a fight.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaFrom Iraq to Lebanon and back: the people want the fall of the regime
Protestors are clear: they do not want reforms, they want a revolution.
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Published in: ourEconomyThe world is in a revolutionary moment – how can the global left be a serious player?
We need not one but two internationales – a ‘movement of movements’ and a World Party.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaLebanon’s ‘October Revolution’ must go on!
Lebanon has a golden opportunity for the formation of an alternative, we should not let the ruling class reproduce...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaEthiopian workers in Lebanon challenge their consulate: “What are you here for?”
The Ethiopian consulate is either absent or complicit in the struggle against the kafala system in Lebanon.
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Published in: Home“No one is too young to make a difference”: stories from the global climate strike
Young people recount how they protested, in the face of poverty, conflict and toxic air pollution, for action on...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaEthio-Lebanese corpse disposal inc.
The Addis Standard uncovers the bilateral effort to cover-up Ethiopian deaths in Lebanon.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaIn Lebanon: new waves of hatred with little solidarity
The needed solidarity with Mashrou’ Leila has unintentionally overshadowed the thousands of Palestinian voices...