With the summer season approaching, people’s obsession with acquiring a perfect body image tends to increase. Many people adopt extreme diets that promise miraculous results.
Silatech and Kiva have created Kiva Arab Youth, an online platform that aims to help young Arab entrepreneurs start or grow their businesses through small microloans.
For three days the Beirut music venue Democratic Republic of Music played host to the Red Bull Music Academy Bass Camp, a workshop simulating the world famous Red Bull Music Academy event.
Over 40 Middle Eastern musical artists, from rap to soul, rock to tradiotional, and pop to electronica, were featured in the Red Bull Music Academy Bass Camp Beirut for 3 whirlwind days.
The Mediterranean's foamy waves have brought more than the regular Lebanese garbage to the shore this time. Are Israel's new sea drilling plans stealing potential Lebanese resources?
On Sunday March 18th, after news of Alem Dechasa’s death spread, MWTF volunteers and students (migrant workers from different backgrounds) decided to do something different.
With the ubiquitous increase in social media, not only fashion or political blogs are climbing up the ladder of prominence. There is momentum amongst members of a minority group: homosexuals.
Migrant domestic workers across the Middle East have almost no legal supervision and their abuse gets even less media coverage...And then, once every so often, someone takes out their camera phone.
Judge John Al-Azzi, attorneys Maya Mansour and Sarah Abou Aad, and women activists Paola Daher and Lama Naja, discuss "Women’s Citizenship Rights in Lebanon”.
A typical childhood is usually filled with innocence and joy. There is a group of children however, who are deprived of this childhood: the Palestinian children living in refugee camps in Lebanon.
In the heart of Beirut, there's an uninterrupted natural haven, except for the chain-link and barbed wire fences separating the public area, about 10 percent, from the rest.
The all-day “Social Media Changing Lives” conference at AUB revolved around social media's role in everything from business strategy to education, music and the arts, and starting a revolution.
Although Lebanon is defined as a middle-income country by the World Bank, pockets of poverty exist in both urban and rural communities and amongst specific ethnic groups.
يطّل "ستيفن سونفلد" بين الواصلين الى صالة الانتظار في مطار بيروت ملوحاً بيده والحماس بادٍ على وجهه. منذ بعض الوقت وأنا في انتظاره حاملاً ورقة طبعت عليها اسمه. "أخيراً وصلت الى موطني"
Maybe you've seen the fliers. “Lebanon is an excellent place to start a business...and improve our crappy education system!” or another stating “...and stop the f%$*ing power outages!”