BEIRUT: While the image of women participating in last year's Arab uprisings has been repeatedly used to provide a narrative for the Arab uprisings, the outcome of what was dubbed the “Arab Spring" did not turn out to be that positive for women.
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BEIRUT: The October 19 bombing in Beirut shocked Lebanon and marked yet another chilling episode of tension in the country. For the country's youth, however, apathy and helplessness was not on the agenda. Although politicians, it seemed to many, (...)
Beirut – The best and brightest men and women from the Middle East have often gone on to work for the world's largest multinational companies in Europe or the United States. On a local level, this “brain drain" has proved difficult for the economies (...)
BEIRUT: Picture an Arab man. Better yet . . . run a quick search on Google Images in English. You'll find the fighter, the flag-waving protester and the religious sheikh. You'll find the Arab man in subjective folkloric representation, framed by a (...)
BEIRUT: On March 6 micro-blogging service Twitter announced the launch of its Arabic, Farsi, Hebrew and Urdu versions. It all started with the grassroots #LetsTweetInArabic campaign by a handful of users who wanted Twitter to be available in more (...)
LONDON: In recent years, multiculturalism in Europe has sometimes been framed as negative, the cause of trouble and the marker of societies undergoing an identity crisis. But multiculturalism, as a result of migration, should be seen as a desirable (...)
LONDON: The elaborate fiction that was the blog “A Gay Girl in Damascus” by the fictional character Amina Abdullah Arraf Al-Omari left many feeling frustrated, betrayed or outraged. However, beyond the deception there is also a lesson to be learned (...)
LONDON: During US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's recent tour of the Persian Gulf — which took her to the United Arab Emirates, Yemen and Oman, and ended in Qatar for the Forum for the Future — she repeatedly insisted on the importance of (...)
LONDON: During US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's recent tour of the Persian Gulf – which took her to the United Arab Emirates, Yemen and Oman, and ended in Qatar for the Forum for the Future – she repeatedly insisted on the importance of (...)