Archive for ‘January, 2012’

Lebanon: Nepali suicide last Sunday in Ashrafieh

From Migrant-Rights.org Lebanese news website Elnashra.com reported last Sunday evening that, according to Lebanese security sources, a Nepalese domestic worker hung herself in her employer’s house…

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Beirut death of Nepalese migrant worker Lila – video

by Joey Ayoub Lila Aacharya left Nepal hoping to make a better life for her two young daughters. Two months later her body was flown home.…

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Hail the Cultural Revolution

By Karl Mattar Originally posted in Mouvement des Jeunes’s blog “Never again will you be capable of ordinary human feeling. Everything will be dead inside you.…

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“Life Bar” Gemmayze asks guests to dress as maids

By Joey Ayoub “This Friday Night, Be Sinkara or Milenga.. Be Soumatra or Domma.. Create your own Maid Costume, Speak Like them and look like a…

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Nora’s fate tells the story of striped hyenas in Lebanon

Reblogged from BlogBaladi.com We sent our team to the location and explained that we needed to take the hyena for treatment, rushing the animal to a…

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My Question to Noam Chomsky

by Joey Ayoub I sent an e-mail to Prof. Noam Chomsky almost a year ago on the 28th of March, 2011 and received a reply less…

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On Education

By Sari Hawa Some thoughts about Education, teaching, and learning. Where to start? After all, Education is a very big word. A very big world, as…

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Jimmy Wales and Palestine

ByJoey Ayoub I’ve had a discussion with Jimmy “Jimbo” Wales, the co-founder of Wikipedia, concerning the fact that he was participating in the Israeli Presidential Conference…

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Why I support IQRA’

By Joey Ayoub I’ve recently joined the Lebanese NGO IQRA’ and although I haven’t done much with them yet, I will try and explain why I…

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Fallujah: A Lost Generation?

By Joey Ayoub This is the trailer to Feurat Alani’s “Iraq: Fallujah’s Sacrificed Children”. Mr. Alani travels to Fallujah unembedded to report on the condition of…

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