Lebanon: Growing Hungry and Left to Die

Nour Sleiman
Lebanese Journalist

Zeina’s family has almost forgotten the taste of chicken and meat. A can of beans costs some 30,000 and a kilo of tomatoes 15,000 Lebanese pounds. ‘These foods were consider to be for the poor,” Zeina said. “Eating them today is a luxury.”

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Are We Writing the Last Chapter of Foggara Heritage ? 

Hanan Btash
– Algerian Journalist
Investigations

Unsafe Anywhere: Attacked by Pegasus, Women Activists Speak Out

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Iraq: Street Logic and Death Shrouds Dominate Parliament

Montazar Al-Kharsan
– Iraqi Journalist
Opinion

Torturing Children: Yet Another Face of Brutality in Syria

Carmen Kareem
– Syrian Journalist
News

Marwan Habib’s Arrest in the US is a Failure of Justice in Lebanon

Nourhan Sharaf Eddine
– Lebanese Journalist
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Kazakhstan Intifada: Colour Revolution or Arab Spring?

Vicken Cheterian
– Armenian Journalist and Writer
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

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Syria: Did Russia Allow Israel to Bomb Latakia Port?

Maha Gazal
On December 7, Israeli jets for the first time ever bombed Latakia. Syrian air defenses remained idle. As Latakia is only 20 kilometers away from the main Russian military base in the country, it begs the question: did Moscow know and allow the air raid to happen?
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Jordan: “Abdullah, You Are Responsible.” 

Jomaa Al-Mesmari
Jordan is rapidly becoming an absolute monarchy with all power concentrated in the hands of the King. This is what the constitutional amendments aim to achieve. Yet, they will only increase the current state of tension and put the King against the people, who have lost all confidence in the political system. 
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Jordan: Israeli Water for Jordanian Power

Hadeel Rawabia
A controversial deal under Emirati sponsorship suggests to build a solar power plant in southern Jordan to help generate electricity for Israel, while a desalination plant on the Israeli shore should help supply desalinated water to the ever drier Kingdom. 

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Investigations

Iraq: Officer Misuses His Power to Murder Family of Twenty

Aya Mansour – Iraqi Journalist
2021 refused to leave Iraq without a bloody massacre … 
Investigations

Gaza: Why Does Hamas Refuse to Hold Municipal Elections?

Mostafa Al-Dahdouh
Refusing to organize elections, Hamas continues to appoint municipal council members. While the people of Gaza have not moved a finger to demand their rights, political factions only issued routine statements, which in turn were only routinely diffused by the media. Why?
Investigations

Organized Expropriation of Christian Real Estate in Iraq

Asaad Zalzali
There has been much talk about ISIS’s expropriation of the lands and properties of religious minorities in Mosul and in some Iraqi provinces; however, the violations that started in 2003 are ongoing today and are not perpetrated by just one entity, as this investigation reveals.

Opinion

Carmen Kareem

Torturing Children: Yet Another Face of Brutality in Syria

Politics and patriarchy are strongly linked, especially in the Arab world. In Syria, the cruelty of the patriarchal system has increased as the Assad regime’s brutality worsened. Naturally, the weakest in society bear the brunt, as the recent abuse of Rahaf at the hands of her father illustrates.
Carmen Kareem

Syria: The Day I Was Accused of Being Bashar al-Assad…

Is seeing reality from more than one angle an act of betrayal? Have our dreams of revolution and freedom blinded us and made us turn each other into the “new assad”? Perhaps one day “gray” will be the only color, the one color that looks tenderly at both the defeated rebel and the soldier who was thrown into the front line at age 18.

Culture

Children of Syria… Begging for Bread and Matches

Farah Akbik
– Syrian Journalist

Living In a Country That Hates You

Nayla Rida
– Moroccan Journalist

Egypt: Hardly Any Copts Play Professional Football: Who Is to Blame?

Mahdi Mohammad

Syrian Photographer Mohammed Badra: Crossing the Sirat with a Camera in Hand

Bunasser Al-Taffar – Lebanese writer and rapper

Gender

Egypt: Death of a Girl After Blackmail

Eman Adel
– Egyptian Journalist

Lebanon: Marginalizing the Role of Women in History and Education

Nourhan Sharaf Eddine
– Lebanese Journalist

Yemeni Girls Threatened by Cybercrime and Blackmail

Samia Aghbari
– Yemeni Journalist

Lebanon: Beirut Port Explosion Aggravated Women’s Suffering

Myriam Sweidan
– Lebanese Journalist
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Be “Dangerous”, Not SilentMisogyny is rooted in our societies, both legally and culturally. “She’s Dangerous” chose to confront these issues with comedy…

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Ghalia Al Alwani is a Syrian academic living in Beirut, Lebanon. In this video she expresses how in the aftermath of the Beirut Port Explosion, like many of the youth that were still in the country, she has lost hope in any change. She explains that the corrupt ruling class in Lebanon don’t prioritize the youth, which is why many of them leave.

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