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In Lebanon, the Line Between Forced and Labor Migration is Fuzzy

Sawsan Abdel-Raheem
Professor And Lecturer in the Lebanese University

Populist accusations that refugees are stealing Lebanese jobs ignore the fact that Lebanese employers are happy to hire non-citizens and pay them much lower wages than what they would pay to Lebanese workers and not pay social security fees.

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Yemen: Facing COVID with Neither Masks nor Gloves

Abeer Mohsen and Mohammad Al-Hosni

How the Failed Arab Spring Changed Our World

Vicken Cheterian
– Armenian Journalist and Writer

Rami Makhlouf: Waiting for the Mahdi

Ahmad Al-Ahmad
– Syrian Journalist
The already bleak prospects of the Syrian economy have worsened in recent months with the Lebanese crisis, the enactment of the Caesar Act and now the coronavirus pandemic. This paper examines their impact on the Syrian economy and the population at large.
Read more about it on the Arab Reform Initiative
Investigations

Yemen: Facing COVID with Neither Masks nor Gloves

Investigations

Journalist Testimonies From the Aden Airport Bombing

Culture

Sweden’s Arab Book Fair: Criticism Beyond An Anti-Semitic Writer

Daraj

About a City Floating Above Sadness and Memory: Beirut’s Story

Alaa Rashidi
– Syrian Writer

The Third Conversion of Hagia Sophia

Vicken Cheterian
– Armenian Journalist and Writer

Syrian Childhood: From Freedom Sketches to Sexual Assault Visuals

Alaa Rashidi
– Syrian Writer

Gender

Iraqi Women Shackled by Archaic Personal Status Laws

Zainab Al Mshat
– Iraqi Journalist

Women Robbed of Their Rights in the Name of Religion

Diana Moukalled
– Lebanese Writer and Journalist

“Amina Graduates From University in Morocco”… An Unusual Event

Nayla Rida
– Moroccan Journalist

The “Fairmont” Case: Sexual Violence and Class Immunity

Maya El Ammar
– Lebanese Journalist
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Vicken Cheterian

How the Failed Arab Spring Changed Our World

The failure of the Arab Spring created hardened political regimes all around us. This is bad news because in our fast changing world we need political, economic and social adaptation.
Ghalia Al Alwani- Syrian Journalist

Trump and the Dictator Toolkit

Trump’s actions throughout his time in power resembled in many ways those of an Arab dictator; the past four years under his reign sort of exposed the United States to have been a similar authoritarian regime to those we’re used to, except perhaps with a much higher budget.

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Trump’s Arrest Warrant: Iraqi sovereignty or Iranian Interference?

Salah Hasan Baban
Although there are legal justifications for issuing an arrest warrant against US President Donald Trump for “premeditated murder,” the timing and circumstances of the decision to do so seem awkward.
News

Iran: Substituting Revenge for Qasem Soleimani with Monuments

Badia Fahs
Unable to strike back, the Iranian regime decided to beautify Soleimani and elevate him to the status of sanctity, to turn him into a jihadist, a religious and political icon that reflects all the characteristics of the inspiring, brave and experienced leader, who terrorized enemies and scored a string of victories.
News

Amidst the Gulf Reconciliations… What About Al-Arabiya and Al-Jazeera?

Daraj
The media powerhouses, Al-Arabiya and Al-Jazeera, will most likely be largely affected in light of this mysterious reconciliation between Saudi Arabia and Qatar.

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Investigations

Syrian refugees in Yemen: When the Coronavirus Becomes More Severe than the War

Radio Rozana
The Syrian war has imposed a massive migration of Syrians outside their country in search of a safe haven. Some of them chose Yemen, also experiencing a war, an epidemic, and multiple humanitarian crises, which the Syrian refugees have not managed to escape from …
Investigations

Iraqi Kurdistan: Work and Love in the Wake of “Covid-19”

Radio Rozana
There are about 300,000 Syrian refugees living in Kurdistan, representing 97 percent of the total Syrian refugees in Iraq. They are living in an ever-escalating crisis with the spread of Corona …
Investigations

Lebanon: Blended Learning Puts Student’ Future at Risk

Soheib Jawhar
The corona pandemic has widened the gap between private and public education, and threatens to put a whole generation of youth outside the system.

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