Lebanon Protests: It’s Too Late To Believe Any of These Politicians’ Promises
(Picture via Anis Tabet). Nata2 badri, as my mom would say. 72 hours have come and gone. Aoun, Berri and Hariri have finally come out of their weekend long slumber to unveil their country saving plan…...
View ArticleLebanon Protests: The Need For Change Doesn’t End With Hariri Resigning
Via Art Of Thawra It took 13 days of the entire country being paralyzed for Lebanon’s politician to budge. In a statement in which he decried that “no one is above their country,” Saad Hariri – our...
View ArticleThe Beirut Explosion Wasn’t An Attack, And That Makes It So Much Worse
I was at my office, having just seen a couple patients in clinic, when my friend Elia texts me: “there’s been an explosion at the Beirut port, check on your family.” I had seen pictures of it on...
View ArticleThe Lebanese Government Is Blocking International Aid, Rescue Teams, &...
I don’t know where to even start. I wanted to write about how Joe Akiki’s mom broke my heart. How Sahar Fares’ funeral tore me to pieces. How little Alexandra’s face, next to her glass, as they...
View ArticleThe Names & Faces of The Victims of The Beirut Explosion
Look at their faces. Say their names. Think of their grieving mothers and fathers, their fatherless or motherless sons and daughters, their partner-less wives and husbands. And be angry. These are...
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