Lebanon
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Lebanon economic and political unrest explained
By Nourhan AlBahrani Until the 1970s, the tradition cliché had it that Lebanon was the Switzerland of the Middle East…
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2020 Beirut explosion: An alarm for Lebanon’s future but a race between regional powers
By Archana Sharma and Farheen Lone In the midst of an interminable economic and political crisis in Lebanon- a country…
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Beirut explosion: the disaster was exceptional but events leading up to it were not – researchers
By Scott Edwards, University of Bristol and Christian Bueger, University of Copenhagen At the time of writing at least 100…
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On selective racism: All black lives matter, including the ones you hired under the Kafala system
By Jasmin Lilian Diab The call to action to improve the working and overall human rights conditions of migrant domestic…
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Suggestive international law in the binding court of public opinion: The STL verdict amid political, financial and health crises
By Jasmin Lilian Diab Just days ago, the Trial Chamber of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) sitting in The…
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Lebanon’s revolutionary wins amid regional losses: Iran in the Arab Spring 2.0
By Jasmin Lilian Diab In a little over a month and a half now, anti-government protests against corruption, economic incompetence,…
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A second Arab Spring brewing?
What has been happening in Lebanon, Iraq, Algeria and Sudan for the past one and half months is nothing short…
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Prosecutors retreat from Boustani trial narrative
By Gil Kapen The fraud and money-laundering trial of Jean Boustani, a Lebanese boat salesman, grinds to its conclusion in…
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Cracks in a prosecution far from home
By Lloyd Green The fraud and money-laundering trial of Jean Boustani, a Lebanese boat salesman, is in its third week…
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Lebanese protest unity triumphs decades of sectarian division
By Younes Mahmoudieh Selective media coverage in the West often results in a fragmented and inconsistent understanding of events in…
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