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Hend Shaheen is a researcher with over a decade in leadership roles in civil society initiatives focused on independent media and training programs across the Arab world. She is a member of the World Liberty Congress.
Four Lebanese Debate Hezbollah, Israel and Who Decides Lebanon's Future
Societies are rarely, if ever, homogeneous in their approach to political subjects like war, peace and sovereignty. Lebanon is no exception, with competing camps seemingly projecting binary perspectives on issues
Circles of Trauma that Never Heal: Lebanese Artists Respond to War and Displacement
“The war has paralyzed my daily life and forced me to rethink my future plans and projects,” said Noueman Maalouf, a Lebanese freelance researcher, in an interview conducted in my
Not Our War, Still Our Crisis: Egypt's Everyday Reality in a Region on Fire
Compared with most locals, my fan story sounds like a first-world problem. But for Egypt’s 108 million residents, the U.S.-Israel war on Iran feels like a distant storm whose thunder
