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The Garbage Crisis in Lebanon: What’s the ‘You Stink Movement’ All About? (2) Posted by jesa on Sep 12, 2015
Marhaba! I hope you all found the previous post interesting. I always strive to keep you all Arabic lovers as fully updated as possible on the most pressing and interesting developments in the Arab world. Many expect that the You Stink Movement is sort of a manifestation of the Arab Spring in Lebanon, while others…
The Garbage Crisis in Lebanon: What’s the ‘You Stink Movement’ All About? Posted by jesa on Sep 8, 2015
Marhaba! You might have come across a number of articles in the last few weeks about massive popular protests in Lebanon. These protests are in part triggered by the government’s failure to provide an adequate solution for garbage processing, collecting, and recycling. The true catalyst for the protests stems from a number of problems, including…
Stronger winds of change Posted by aziza on Jan 29, 2011
Egypt is in a state of revolution, led by young people and old, by women and men. Everyone came out after Friday prayers to ask for a change in the political system in Egypt. Security forces failed to control the hundreds of thousands of demonstrators taking to the streets. Numbers of demonstrators reached 500,000 in…