Whenever memories take me back to the time when the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990) had just ended, one sound always echoes along the scenes: it is the special voice of that one singer who will always function as an anchor pinning down that particular slice of my remembrance of the past. Born in 1961 Kafroun, a Syrian village located in the countryside of Homs, George … Continue reading George Wassouf: the People’s Champ
“What we are hurtling toward is a world demarcated into fortified Green Zones for the super-rich, Red Zones for everyone else — and black sites for whoever doesn’t cooperate. Europe, Australia, and North America are erecting increasingly elaborate (and privatized) border fortresses to seal themselves off from people fleeing for their lives. Fleeing, quite often, as a direct result of forces unleashed primarily by those … Continue reading AIN AL-HILWEH CAMP THE PHYSICAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE WALLS SURROUNDING PALESTINIAN REFUGEES IN LEBANON
During a misty summer dawn, on Friday 30 June 2017, Lebanese Army Forces (LAF) troops—reinforced with several tanks—stormed two Syrian refugee camps located on the outskirts of Arsal, in northeast Lebanon. The first, al-Nour Camp, is located in Jafar. The second, Qara, is located in Wadi al-Hosn. That dawn, LAF soldiers took their positions surrounding each of the camps and waited for the zero hour. … Continue reading Lebanon: Nationalist Stimulation, Syrian Dehumanizatio
في المعازف أردت أن اكتب عن جورج وسوف لأردّ له الجميل. حكايتي مع الوسوف بدأت عندما كنت في العاشرة من عمري، في صيف ١٩٩٢. حين انتهت المدرسة سألت والدي “بابا هي الصيفية حنطلع عالصيد؟” فرد بنبرة حادة “إذا بدك تطلع عالصيد روح شتغل واجمع حق الخرطوش، أمك واخواتك أحق بالمصاري”. بعد هذا الإعلان انحصر تفكيري بكيفية تدبير كلفة الخرطوش. قلت لنفسي حازماً ‘بدنا نطلع عالبقاع ونروح نتصيد’، … Continue reading الصيف الذي أنقذني فيه سلطان الطرب
My first with GU The once-plush hotel stands empty as a reminder of the city’s brutal civil war, while the surrounding districts are swept up in glitzy redevelopments Moe-Ali Nayel Friday 1 May 2015 Though Lebanon has been swept by a gentrifying and disfiguring development rush, some older monuments still stand tall. Strolling downhill from the Clemenceau neighbourhood for a coffee on the seaside … Continue reading Beirut’s bullet-riddled Holiday Inn
Moe Ali Nayel The Electronic Intifada Beirut 15 May 2014 “We walked and walked and walked for days until we finally settled on the beach of Damour,” said 80-year-old Um Zohair. “On the beach we fetched green banana leaves together and with bamboo sticks we made a hut that sheltered us for three months on the sand.” Sixty-six years ago, Um Zohair — Nada Mousa … Continue reading “We’re exhausted from being homeless”: recalling the Palestinians’ plight on Nakba Day
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
Fault lines between Lebanon’s largest sects deepening By Moe Ali Nayel on December 03, 2012 It has been a year of dreaming dangerously for some Lebanese Sunnis who see the perpetually impending downfall of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad as an opportunity to reassert their historical dominance over the country’s Shia. February’s escalation of the long-running feud between pro-Assad Alawites and anti-Assad Sunnis in Tripoli set a … Continue reading The Islamic divide
Moe Ali Nayel The Electronic Intifada Beirut 12 November 2012 On Friday, 9 October, approximately 100 Palestinian refugees in Lebanon gathered at the Palestinian Authority’s Beirut embassy to demand PA President Mahmoud Abbas’ ouster. Demonstrators were outraged by Abbas’ recent statements on Israeli television against the right of return for Palestinian refugees. A thunderstorm, threats from members of Fatah, the dominant party in the … Continue reading “Time to go,” Abbas told by Palestinians in Beirut
Brigadier Wissam al-Hassan was born in 1965 in the village of Betwartij, Koura, North of Lebanon, a married man and a father of two boys. He enrolled in the security service in 1983 as a student lieutenant, and moved up the ranks until he was assassinated as a General. After his death he was promoted to the rank of Brigidier, a rank that he had … Continue reading Another Car Bomb Another Mysterious Assassination
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