At every attempt to write to you, we fail.
All those torn papers. The shame!
Shame, Alaa, the one that creeps into the soul and penetrates the bones.
“They killed my angel,” says the mother of the young Iranian woman, Mahsa Amini, after she was killed following her arrest by what is known in Iran as the “Guidance Patrol”!
Amini was arrested on September 13 for not complying with the “dress code imposed
We are proud to announce the launch of the first round of Beirut DC Impact Fund, the first of its kind in the Arab region. The fund supports Impact Campaigns built around groundbreaking Arab films that address the most important social, political and environmental issues
At the beginning of September, the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, and Oman) asked Netflix to remove content they considered “offensive”.
“If You See Me, Then Weep.” An ancient German inscription appears on a stone in the Elbe River on the Czech-German border upon the receding of waters to alarming levels.
The Impact Fellowship is a brand new year-long training program created by Beirut DC. Over the course of a full year, the 10 fellows from a variety of backgrounds will be trained to become professional Impact Producers.
And there goes our world intoxicated with tyranny.
One may think that in light of savage systems’ failure, rendering the planet almost uninhabitable, humanity would inevitably turn towards creating new political designs that are more just, tolerant, and compassionate, based on cooperation and unity, rejecting competition,
We had the pleasure of presenting moving stories from the Arab world to the audience in Beirut, the regions in Lebanon, and the world online during Ayam Beirut edition 11.
“There used to be a girl with short hair around here. She wore a butterfly necklace and called her bicycle Strawberry. She’d be constantly riding it around! Where did she go? She is deeply missed!” (Sarah Hijazi, Prison Memoirs)
