12/Independent media versus the Lebanese olig...

For episode 218 of The Fire These Times, I talk to Luka Dowell (Solarpunk Now!), Ariel Kroon (Solarpunk Presents) and Andre (HydroponicTrash) about our changing relationships to Solarpunk given everything that's been going on in the world since the last time we all sat together ( ...  Show more

For episode 217, I talk about Israel bombing my hometown of Ain Saadeh yesterday, and why it worries me more than anything they've done so far. ⁠⁠⁠Lebanon emergency relief⁠⁠⁠⁠Support: You can support my work with⁠⁠ ⁠a one-off or monthly donation⁠⁠⁠ on Ko-fiMasterclass on Modern L ...  Show more

This week on Babel, Jon speaks with Sami Atallah, the founding director of The Policy Initiative in Beirut. They talk about Lebanon's three year old financial crisis, its struggle with political accountability, and where change might come from. Then, Jon continues the conversatio ...  Show more

0:00 Intro 1:00 Day-to-day 13:51 No candidate 19:11 Division 25:02 Kataeb 33:49 Secularism 56:36 Hezbollah 1:19:35 Women-led 1:30:33 Personal reasons We're with Jana Massoud and Ghiya El Assaad for Episode 304 of The Beirut Banyan. Click to watch: https://youtu.be/M0C8Jweks0w We ...  Show more

Learn about Arab Marxism, radical patriarchal politics, and Lebanon’s political economy over the last century in this conversation with professor Fadi Bardawil from Duke University. Starting with his book “Revolution and Disenchantment: Arab Marxism and the Binds of Emancipati ...

LE LIBAN SOUS PRESSION

​Une explosion de 2.750 tonnes de nitrate d'ammonium a soufflé, le 4 août, les installations du port de Beyrouth et fortement endommagé le centre-ville,faisant 190 morts et au moins 6 500 blessés Elle s’est produite dans ...