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Gender

Hail Sultana: On Drag as Art, Performance, and Expression 

Tracy Jawad
Life can be both glamorous and humorous for us all, and like a well-kept secret passed along the generations that have paved the way, Sultana knows this all too well. The boundaries of our self-expression only exist if we choose to abide by them––and she’s chosen freedom.
Investigations

Lebanon: “I Want to Go Home”

Myriam Sweidan
Some 30 Kenyans sleep outside the Kenyan consulate demanding to go home. As Lebanon is virtually bankrupt, thousands of female foreign workers have been abandoned. They often have not been paid for months.
Investigations

A Year since the Beirut Port Crime: Who Cares?

Diana Moukalled
It has been a year since the Beirut port explosion ripped through the city. While there are still more questions than answers, justice and accountability remain a distant dream.
Opinion

As a Mother, I Wish I Could Silence the Sea

Farah Shaqir
I never wrote anything about the Aug. 4 explosion in my mother tongue. Because I am a mother. And the explosion made me a fragile mother. And with this fragility, my mother tongue too became fragile. My writing today is an attempt to recover my mother tongue.
Investigations

Dear Lebanon: Nando’s Is Not The House it Once Was

Wissam Assouad
A heartfelt eyewitness account of August 4, 2020. Wissam was with his friends in Karantina until an hour before the explosion. Moments later, he rushed back to a scene of utter devastation to see if any of them were still alive.
Investigations

Lebanon: Hezbollah Represents an very Advanced Model of Internationalization

Rabih Fakhry – Thaer Gandour – Bashar Al Halabi
With its call for “internationalization,” the Maronite patriarchate has played a card as old as Lebanon itself, to save both itself and the country, while placing Hezbollah in a position of direct rivalry with the largest Christian sect in the region.
Opinion

Shock and Aftershock: a Psychologist’s Vista on Beirut 2020

Olivia Shabb
When patients ask: “How are you”? I wonder: how much mirror do I give, and how much rock?
Investigations

Beirut Blast: The Number of Missing Still has not Reached Zero

Jana Barakat
“I want to know where my son is. Until now I don’t have any information about his fate.” It has been over two months since the Beirut port explosion, and still people are missing …
Opinion

Who Killed Elias Khoury?

Hazem El Amin
Elias Khoury has become the symbol of our failure to convince his generation – our sons – that Lebanon is a country worth living in. Our sons would say: ‘Look at Elias’ photo. Is that what you want for us too?’
Investigations

Zainab’s Parents Fear The Political influence Protecting Their Daughter’s Murderers

Marwa Saab
“Those who killed my daughter are politically supported. I don’t belong to any political party, and I don’t have enough money to hire a lawyer to get my daughter justice from those who killed her.”

The English Section of Daraj News is co-supported by Anne Avis

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