It has been a turbulent two years after Donald Trump became the 45th president of the United States of America. In the past decades the world has seen the emergence of world leaders with worrisome traits such as sympathy towards autocracy, phobic right-wing beliefs, and are brazenly misogynistic. This troubling trend didn’t start with Donald…
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As Winter Storms Hit Syrian Refugee Camps in Lebanon, Local NGOs Bear the Burden
Most recent article published in The Globe Post – 23. January 2019 Since the Syrian uprising and following war eight years ago, over one million Syrians have fled to neighboring Lebanon. They live in makeshift camps with poor infrastructure and tents housing. Earlier this month, storm Norma hit over 547 of those settlements, endangering over 22,000 refugees. A…
MeatBall and Chain – Traditional Patriarchal Recipe
A short introduction to the role of some women in a Middle Eastern minorities’ reality.
Mother Russia
I’m typing these thoughts ferociously while sitting in a taxi on my way back to Beirut after spending a weekend in Syria, taking care of some charity work, which I’m supporting. It’s a rainy day and the highway between Latakia and the Areeda border is mostly empty besides the occasional truck by a local farmer…