By Joey Ayoub It is with great disgust that I learned today that 36 gay men have been forced to endure anal exams after being arrested in a police raid last Saturday. Their crime? being gay. For those wondering, there was no police abuse. The law has not been violated. On the contrary, it has […]
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By Joey Ayoub We have finished the report on the Karantina Slaughterhouse and are currently finishing translating it into Arabic, French and Armenian. We are about 10 active students who are dedicated to seeing a concrete change happening in the Karantina Slaughterhouse. That being said, we decided not to publish it before September when the […]
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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: […]
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By Joey Ayoub We, the Environmental and Public Health class of AUB, just came back from our visit to the Bekaa where a food safety ‘debate’ took place between our Microbiology Teacher, Dr. Rabih Kamleh, and the Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Hussein Al Hajj Hassan. In light of recent events that took place – I’m […]
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The following post is an eye-witness account of the horrors happening inside the Karantina Slaughterhouse. I have visited the slaughterhouse last Monday the 2nd of July with my Environmental and Public Health Class of the American University of Beirut. This post is accompanied with graphic images and a video which are placed at the bottom […]
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We have received new information today relating to the Phoenician site that was destroyed last Tuesday the 26th. Document Number 1: Rock-cut slipways in Beirut by Prof. David Blackman sent to the university of Oxford. Document Number 2: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, par Pr. Dr. Jean-Yves Empereur Document Number 3: Dr. Kaliopi Baika’s […]
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By Joey Ayoub Another racist incident was reported by the Anti-Racism Movement in Lebanon. Al-Akhbar wrote about it here. We should however note that St. Georges Beach Club is far from being the only one. Two other examples are Riviera and Coral Beach which specifically ban migrant workers from entering. Lazy B has a more […]
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This is the Save Beirut Heritage (SBH) Release over the destruction of the Phoenician Shipyard in Mina el-Hosn, Beirut. [Version Originale Francaise] Translated into English by Joey Ayoub and posted here with SBH’s permission. “I answer in the name of Save Beirut Heritage with an excerpt of the report that we have submitted to The […]
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Dear Minister, I wanted to express my sincerest sadness over your failure to protect our 2,500 year-old monument. It is a sad day for our culture, our history and our nation. I do not want to send you an angry letter for I am completely demoralized by your act. You have succeeded in murdering many […]
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By Joey Ayoub I am sad to report that a 2,500 year-old Phoenician shipyard was completely destroyed today in Mina el-Hosn, Beirut. The ministry of culture has ignored some sort of understanding between their position – a complete disregard for anything that requires the slightest intellectual effort – and that of ‘Save Beirut Heritage’ and […]
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This is a response to Michael Farchakh’s article “Atheism and homosexuality: allies of thought or of opportunity?” that was published in Beryte, USJ’s Faculty of Law’s newspaper. Link. Farchakh starts by telling us that “most atheists have taken up homosexuality’s cause as a reason to slander organized faith”. Farchakh would do well to remember that homosexuality […]
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The following is the HRW report on Lebanon for the year 2011 Downloadable Resources: World Report Chapter: Lebanon 2012 (PDF) More coverage: More Human Rights Watch reporting on Lebanon 2011 was mostly a year of political paralysis for Lebanon. The country had no government for the first six months, and while political life resumed in […]
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J’ai donne une interview a L’Orient Le Jour concernant le projet “Humans of Lebanon”. L’article. You can find the English translation on the Facebook page here. 1- Pouvez-vous m’expliquer le concept de “Humans of..” en quelques mots? “Humans of..” a commencé avec un homme, Brandon Stanton, qui décida de faire un “recensement photographique” de la […]
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By Joey Ayoub This is the program for the 2012 Outbox International Film Festival. It starts on the 14th of June and ends on the 17th every day at 8pm. Entrance is free. Location: Roman Baths, Downtown Beirut. I’m hoping to attend to as many dates as possible which will be followed by my pics […]
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By Joey Ayoub Humans of Lebanon was started as a sort of unofficial sequel to Humans of Beirut. What we do is simple: we post photographs, amateur and professional alike, of human beings in Lebanon. Anyone can participate. If you feel you have something important to share, please send us your photograph(s) to humansoflebanon@gmail.com We […]
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Today at 8pm. Gemmayze St Nicholas Stairs For more info, check out their page. The Program: Joey‘s Pick for Day 1: Na wewe – Ivan Goldschmit – Belgium – 18:52 min Nice short story about the complexity of identity. A minivan transporting citizens of Burundi is stopped by a band of Hutu rebels who force […]
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First, is a short article by Joey Ayoub. Second, is an article by Joseph Zailaa. I. I’ve already written about this issue in a previous article so I hope you would bear with me with this one. I’ll make it short. Today we celebrate IDAHO, the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia. It is a […]
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By Joey Ayoub Join us tomorrow as we take the streets shouting our 6 demands: 1- Enacting a unified Civil Code for the Personal Status Law. 2- Passing the Law for Protection of Women from Family Violence submitted by KAFA to the Lebanese parliament. We denounce the parliamentary committee distortions to the law draft and […]
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AUB Outlook has degraded itself by allowing a homophobic article to be published in this month’s issue. Not only is it extremely poor in content but it is filled with hatred, pseudo-facts and just plain stupidity. The article, written by Mohamad Sibai, starts by telling us that he was bothered at the sight of an […]
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By Joey Ayoub Article 522 of the Lebanese penal code suggests that a rapist can be exonerated from his horrendous crime if he decides to marry his victim. This barbaric law not only justifies the unjustifiable but reduces women to mere sex toys as well. Declaration of Lebanese Men Against Article 522 – We are […]
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Hummus For Thought 