“Lets call it a revolution, O my people” At 10am teachers and students decided this would not be just another manic Monday: they took to the streets turning them into a country-wide classroom with the kick-off of The Syndicate Coordination Committee open-ended strike and demonstrations. This is the second week of teachers’ protests and this one was on the steps of the Central Bank followed … Continue reading Lebanon: SCC Protest
Moe Ali Nayel The Electronic Intifada Beiru 26 February 2013 Only twenty months ago 38-year-old Palestinian refugee Moutawali Abu Nasser gave up his teaching job and put his theater work on hold in order to deploy his intellectual skills to keep Damascus’ Yarmouk camp neutral but sympathetic to the winds of change that started blowing in Syria. Yet eight kilometers away from the center of … Continue reading Yarmouk activist describes “atrocious” state of war-torn camp in Syria
Teachers and public sector workers demanding pay hikes: Join us tomorrow at 11:00 am from the Barbir down to the government house The Private Schools’ Union: Classes will be normally held on Wednesday and the schools’ principals will have the final say in this matter. The politics of the rich in Lebanon want us to be slaves. join us tomorrow for a massive turn out, … Continue reading Lebanon: SCC Protest
Momentary panic fell upon Makdissi street Hamra. Around 5 pm today two men parked their car in the middle of the intersection at Marble Tower hotel and took off running. On the busy intersection people panicked and they too left their cars and took off running. A bystander told me “there might be a bomb in the car lets get inside the shop before it … Continue reading Panic in Hamra
A month after the storm, state has done little to address failings By Moe Ali Nayel on February 05, 2013 It was a Saturday night when the temperature dropped. Beirut’s skies condensed with the thick gray clouds of January. Talk of wild weather started to snowball off the tongues of Beirutis. Bridges, buildings, highways and walls collapsed, floods reached peoples’ beds, blackouts affecting the whole … Continue reading Lebanon’s frigid, deadly Russian bride
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