Lebanon bans Barbie over gay undertones
Authorities in Kuwait and Lebanon have banned the release of Barbie, the live-action film based on the popular Mattel doll. The...
Month: August 2023
Lebanon: Palestinian camp Ain al-Hilweh killers fingered
The killers responsible for murder and mayhem in a Palestinian refugee camp in the south of Lebanon have been identified...
BRICS signs off new members in bid to counter US sanctions
Leaders of the BRICS bloc of leading developing nations - Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa - have agreed...
Faisal Al Yafai: Assad’s wait-and-see tactics will haunt him
Given the warm welcome Bashar Al Assad received at the Arab League just three months ago, one might have expected...
Kerry Boyd Anderson: Two years on after Afghanistan
Two years after the US and its allies withdrew from Afghanistan, partisan political views in Washington have hardened, while foreign...
Hazem Saghieh: the culture war in Lebanon
A cultural war, the likes of which the country has not seen since the mid-1970s, is raging in Lebanon. Youths...
What a drag. Gay bar stormed by fanatics in Beirut
A drag show in the Lebanese capital Beirut was cut short late on Wednesday by an angry crowd of conservative...
Jordan’s reform narrative smacks of hyper repression, say rights groups
“Jordan was never an oppressive country and will never be one”, said King Abdullah II of Jordan on August 15,...
Lebanese army blocks 700 Syrians crossing border
The Lebanese army turned away around 700 Syrians attempting to cross into the neighboring country illegally over the past week, the armed...
Haniyeh: Ending occupation is the only solution to Israel-Palestine conflict
Palestinians “will face the siege, closures and settlement with persistence and resistance,” the Head of Hamas’ Political Bureau, Ismail Haniyeh,...
