The Underlying Turf War Between Raseef and Taht Al-Shajarah
As students settle once more in the spring semester, and the temperature is at its icy peak, customers repopulate the campus’ surrounding restaurants and cafés, reigniting that cozy, wintery vibe that is so revered. That’s no different for resto/cafes like Raseef or Taht Al-Shajarah. Not too far away from each other, and not too different…
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Hasbara
Propaganda is always obvious in retrospect. Whenever we go back, to the 1940s for example, or the Cold War era, and look into old posters, commercials, and magazines, it is clear to us how almost every piece of media was used to alter public opinion to garner public support, and control the masses. As Isa…
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From the Mississippi to the Jordan River, Black & Palestinian Liberation
“The Palestinian cause is not a cause for Palestinians only, but a cause for every revolutionary, wherever he is, as a cause of the exploited and oppressed masses in our era.” — Ghassan Kanafani The murder of George Floyd in 2020 afflicted millions around the world, Palestinians took to the streets to mourn his death…
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An Undying Spirit
“Art is our situation. When you don’t have a homeland . . . and when people deny your existence. So art is a form of saying we are here. We have long roots here. [Art] gives home to the homeless.” From the river to the sea and despite the occupation, Palestinians have refused to let…
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Women’s Bodies
What is it like being a woman at war? We don’t have to look far to find those who can tell us: It is to have one’s humanity stripped and become nothing but a prop for media. From the start of the aggressions on Gaza on the 7th of October, women have served primarily as…
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Liberation
When will Palestine be liberated? That has been the most answered and unanswered question of the past 76 years. Who will liberate Palestine? That question is a little more controversial. How will Palestine be liberated? By gun, by sword, or by United Nations Resolution 9056.1/028×3. What will Palestine look like after liberation? We have heard…
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Homework Labour
The university seems to be in a perpetual crisis. Public universities are being eviscerated at home and abroad, while private universities scream of vitality while gutting their students, workers, and campus. Faced with constant internal and external threats, universities are constantly telling us, or being told, that they need to reinvent themselves. The current looming…
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Queer Visions Under Fire
On the 18th of September, Al-Rahma hospital in Tripoli, a facility that provides sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services was raided by a group of men who were part of the current hate campaign against the LGBTQ community. This ambush was on the grounds that the facility ‘promotes homosexuality,’ and the video that went viral…
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Campus Politics
Student movements have long been a strong force in Lebanon. We owe the establishment of the Lebanese University to the students who mobilized on January 23, 1951. Their general strike demanded the establishment of a public national university that was accessible to students of all classes across the country. Access to higher education at the…
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