Affairs
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Copenhagen’s Medical Miracle: A Message to Football Authorities
Following a five-year wait, the European Championship finally returned this month after previously being scheduled to take place in 2020. A few months prior to the original 2020 edition of this continental football showpiece, the COVID-19 pandemic had struck the globe, leading to mass quarantining and the prohibition of most forms of social interaction until…
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“Fresh Dollars”: A New Tool for Exploitation
The only thing that an employer needs to do in modern-day Lebanon to attract job seekers is to write “paid in fresh dollars” in the job’s description, no matter how low the amount of dollars is. At a time when the country faces one of the world’s worst financial crises since the 19th century according…
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Triple Threat: Corruption, Gender Inequality, and Inept Disaster Responses
In my previous piece, I elaborated on the presence of a strong association between weak resilience to disasters and gender inequality. However, there remains a third dimension within this already complicated dynamic that is left undiscussed: corruption. When floods hit the Kosi region of Bihar, the social exclusion of marginalized groups within India operated under…
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The Intentional Dismantling of the Lebanese University
The operating budget of the Lebanese University, Lebanon’s only public university, has reached an all-time low. On January 21st of this year, Finance Minister Ghazi Wazni submitted a draft proposal of the budget to current Caretaker Prime Minister Hassan Diab which includes a reduction in the university’s budget. This comes at a time when the…