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A Light Bulb

0 Aug 24 2011 by Maya Mikdashi

[Electricite du Liban: Image from Flickr]

Last summer, I posted a piece about electricity outages in Lebanon. In the year that separates that article from this one, one March 14 led Lebanese government has been brought down and another March 8 led government has been formed. Popular uprisings have swelled the Arab world with possibility as Ben Ali, Mubarak, and now Gaddhafi were overthrown. The US-Saudi-Israeli mix and match trifecta has seen its influence waning, and is leading counterrevolutions in Bahrain, Yemen, and Syria. Lebanon’s response to the Syrian uprising has easily mapped into the old political divisions of March 14 and March 8, but it has also been the impetus behind an ongoing ...

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Anniversary of Salah al-Bitar's Assassination

0 Jul 22 2010 by Bassam Haddad

Salah al-Bitar was the cofounder, along with Michel Aflaq, of the Ba`th party, later called the Arab Socialist Ba`th Party when it merged with Akram Hourani's Arab Socialist Party in 1953.

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My Coming Out Story

10 Jun 21 2011 by Maya Mikdashi

I am a Sunni. Yes, I said it. I am a Sunni from Beirut, the capital of Lebanon. I was born in a hospital that no longer exists, having been torn down to make way for a tower that houses, most probably, more Sunnis. After being born in that hospital that no longer exists, I was bundled up and sent home with my parents to Tariq al-Jadidah, a neighborhood that is known as the “Sunni bastion of Beirut". I grew up there, a blonde little thing with a working mother who spoke, at best, broken Arabic, a ...

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