What an investigation of Racism in Lebanon revealed
France24 lead an investigation in Lebanon to try and find out whether domestic workers suffer abuse in Lebanon. I’m sure you already know the answer.
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New Exhibit Highlights Struggle of Lebanese of African and Asian heritage
The ‘Mixed Feelings’ exhibit highlights stories of Lebanese of African and Asian heritage and their daily struggles.
Read MoreARM: Lebanese Beaches that openly segregate [Video]
By Joey Ayoub The Anti-Racism Movement released this video of a member calling different establishments and asking them if they would allow a migrant worker to swim if he/she paid like any customer. Check out the answers. Those that do not let migrant workers swim even if they paid like any customer are: Golden Beach: […]
Read MoreDo Not Forget Alem Dechasa
“What makes it harder is when this girl is killed and then claimed that she had committed suicide in order to protect the Lebanese employer from legal prosecution.”
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HFT Newsletter #4
Welcome to the fourth newsletter of Hummus For Thought, a monthly collection of thoughts and recommendations.
Read MoreHFT Newsletter #2
Welcome to the second newsletter of Hummus For Thought, a monthly collection of thoughts and recommendations.
Read MoreHFT Newsletter #1
Welcome to the first newsletter of Hummus For Thought, a monthly collection of thoughts and recommendations.
Read MoreLebanon’s militarized masculinity
“It is ‘normal’ to expect outbursts of violence in Lebanon, often coupled with grand displays of toxic masculinity and, often still, with sectarian/conservative pronouncements”
Read MoreNotes on Syria and the Coming Global Thanatocracy
“Of course in the largely pacific global North and elsewhere many would look askance at the suggestion that Assad (and his allies) are responsible for the estimated half a million or more Syrian’s killed since 2011 as Assad certainly is.”
Read More“We are not racists, but”
“Children of color, and especially poor children of color, learn one thing very well in Lebanese schools and that is to hate themselves.”
Read MoreHummus For Thought, the Podcast
A Podcast on memory, gender, identity and exile – and everything else.
Read MoreThe Irrelevant Arabs – On Syria & “The Impossible Revolution” A Conversation With Yassin Al-Haj Saleh
Syrian intellectual Yassin Al-Haj Saleh on the root causes of the Syrian uprising.
Read MoreShadow of a Man? Understanding Masculinities in the MENA (Audio)
Audio and partial transcript of the LSE Panel I took part in with Dr. Shereen El-Faki and Dr. Courtney Freer.
Read MoreWhy I Am Not a Humanist
“It is not coincidental that the boundaries of the human seem to correspond with the West.”
Read MoreOn Beirut Pride: 5 Reflections.
Presenting reflections on Beirut Pride by 5+ authors
Read MoreLebanon’s Migrant Domestic Workers March on Labour Day
For the eighth year in a row, migrant domestic workers from many nations marched to demand their labor rights in Beirut.
Read MoreSOAS Community Condemns Israeli Ambassador Mark Regev’s Visit
32 SOAS Student Societies and over 100 SOAS staff condemn Mark Regev’s visit as an official exercise in state propaganda
Read MoreBlack-Palestine Solidarity: Towards an Intersectionality of Struggles
Tracing the historical context of both struggles and exposing the shared components of their respective struggles in order to conclude on their relation within a politics of transnational solidarity framework today
Read MoreNetanyahu’s Hitler Speech is nothing new
Netanyahu is willing to do whatever it takes to justify ongoing Settler Colonialism in Palestine, even whitewashing Hitler.
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