Reminder: The newsletter is migrating

Hey everyone, This is a reminder that the newsletter you’ve all come to love is migrating to another website. If you’ve enjoyed it so far, no worries, you will still get it. In order to do that, please go on The Fire These Times (thefirethisti.me) and add your email in the box thingy at the […]

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HFT Newsletter #9

Welcome to the ninth newsletter of Hummus For Thought, a monthly collection of thoughts and recommendations

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HFT Newsletter #8

Welcome to the eight newsletter of Hummus For Thought, a monthly collection of thoughts and recommendations, curated by Joey Ayoub (hello) from Geneva, Switzerland. It comes out on every first Sunday morning of the month. Join over 4,000 subscribers by clicking here to subscribe. If you’re getting this by email, please open this page on […]

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HFT Newsletter #7

Welcome to the seventh newsletter of Hummus For Thought, a monthly collection of thoughts and recommendations, curated by Joey Ayoub (hello) from Geneva, Switzerland. It comes out on every first Sunday morning of the month. Join over 4,000 subscribers by clicking here to subscribe. If you’re getting this by email, please open this page on […]

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HFT Newsletter #6

Welcome to the sixth newsletter of Hummus For Thought, a monthly collection of thoughts and recommendations.

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HFT Newsletter #5

Welcome to the fifth newsletter of Hummus For Thought, a monthly collection of thoughts and recommendations.

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HFT Newsletter #4

Welcome to the fourth newsletter of Hummus For Thought, a monthly collection of thoughts and recommendations.

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HFT Newsletter #2

Welcome to the second newsletter of Hummus For Thought, a monthly collection of thoughts and recommendations.

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Dr. Mads Gilbert’s impassioned speech on Gaza at AUB

“Over the next two hours, Dr Gilbert would detail the horrors he saw, backed by numerous, excruciating images and videos he took of the patients and doctors who fell victims to the savagery of the Israelis last summer.”

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Happy Lebanon on #HappyDay

Yesterday, I announced on Facebook and Twitter the following: Today’s International Happiness Day (Yes, it’s a thing). A group of young Lebanese will be in Hamra today at 5pm to spread some joy. Here’s their message: Fear has taken over our Lebanese life. A rational fear of war. A rational fear of death. A rational fear […]

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Misery beyond the War Zone

Medecins Sans Frontieres’ head in Lebanon, Fabio Forgione, gave a presentation entitled “Misery beyond the War Zone: Life for Syrian Refugees and Displaced Population in Lebanon”

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On Poverty

Until we murder poverty, Humanity remains a lie. I am disgusted – and I wish to make that clear –  by the men and women who glorify poverty by highlighting the supposed purity of that state of pseudo-existence. I’ve never seen these low-lives throw away their properties, renouncing their daily comforts and going down to […]

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Get back in Line

by Guest Author Malek Takieddine I had a fight today with a well-known Lebanese Member of Parliament at the Heathrow airport in London. I was standing in line ready to board my flight and he just came confidently and overpassed everyone in the queue. The Lebanese MEA employee did not object and, instead, he welcomed […]

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