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Lebanon

How One Lebanese Woman Got Everyone Talking About Porn

A new song has been making its way around Lebanese airwaves, one that’s sparked both laughter and groans. “I can’t believe there’s even a song about her now!” commented a Facebook user. The song in question? It’s ca...
by Meryl Haddad
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Human Rights

International Women’s Day: Missing the Point Holds Us Back

As the world celebrates International Women’s Day, celebrating it in the Arab world comes with mixed reactions. In a region that has embraced more change in the past two years than it has in the past two decades, the issue of...
by Yara Al Wazir
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Human Rights

Syrian-Palestinian Refugees of Rap: “The Age of Silence is Over”

Refugees Of Rap is a Syrian – Palestinian hip-hop band, one of the first in Syria. The four rappers, from Syrian, Palestinian and Algerian origin, started singing in 2005 in the Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmouk, locate...
by Syria Untold
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Hague on Syria, Parliament and Britain’s Place in the World

Yesterday, (September 8th 2013) UK Foreign Secretary William Hague appeared on the leading BBC political and current affairs program – The Andrew Marr Show. Not unsurprisingly, there was only one real topic up for discus...
by Oscar Isham
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Lebanon
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In the Shadow of Syria: Will Lebanon Soon be Shrouded?

With news reports flooding in highlighting the ever deepening involvement of Hezbollah in Bashar al-Assad’s struggle for Syria, the scenario which so many Lebanese feared appears to be on the brink of being realized. Conflict...
by Michael Brown
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Religion
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Is Christianity perishing in the Middle East?

Christianity’s Holy Book, The Bible, is replete with the history, stories of the Jews, other people and places of the Middle East from early civilisation to the Romans. Among several Biblical stories are those of the birth of...
by Samson Faboye
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LGBTQ

Life as Arabia’s queer youth: Four LGBT Arabs break the silence

The world as we know it today is experiencing its peak when it comes to the rights of LGBTQ+ people. With improvements such as constitutional protection, better representation in the media, more coverage of hate crimes and prot...
by Danya Issam
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Iran

Iran’s New Age

24 November 2014 marks the day on which the 12-year impasse regarding trade sanctions imposed to restrain Iran’s nuclear programme is to end. In 2002, the country’s opposition group revealed secret government activity inclu...
by Siobhan Fraile Ordonez
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Middle East

Behind Turkey’s Peace with PKK

This is how the fairy-tail goes: “Suddenly Abdullah Ocelan, founder of the militant marxist PKK, decided to agree to negotiate with the AKP government. The party that once called for an independent Kurdish state, agreed t...
by Mohamed Firas Arfaoui
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