The carrot
By Iman Tabbara Alayli, Staff Writer
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia - One of the main differences between us and other creatures is our ability to aspire, to dream that we might achieve a better life. However, we keep changing our dreams. [More]
Humanize Me!
By Saad Manasterli, Staff Writer
Fairfax, Virginia - Who are we as a people and what are we to do with time? For time does not last forever and we are most definitely not everlasting. So in turn I ask myself, what is everlasting and what can withstand the tides of time and its withering ways of evolving? [More]
Exhibit or Inhibit?
By Suha Karaky, Managing Editor
Beirut, Lebanon – “Do the meanings of the heart swim in the streams of our conversations, and do they matter most when they’re glimpsed through deep water and never caught?” [More]
A Real Future
By Wael Fatayri, Staff Writer
Beirut, Lebanon - Twice a day, I swim in the thoughts of my future: when I wake up and when I go back to bed. Twice a day, this river of thoughts becomes murkier. Perhaps it is too early for me to think of the future. Or is it? [More]
Kinda Real Column
By Kinda Adra, Staff Writer
Beirut, Lebanon - Why is there so much difference in the world? Why are some people rich and others poor? How do people cope with all this unfairness? Is it mere luck or is it our own choices that build up who we are? [More]
Pity the Status Quo
By Iman Tabbara Alayli, Staff Writer
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia - I have come to the realization that we Arabs will never develop nor socially nor intellectually, and we will always need someone to tell us what and how to do things down to the smallest detail and what the repercussions are if we refrain from doing so. [More]
Ironic but true
By Sarah Nsouli, Staff Writer
Beirut, Lebanon - Our youth immigrate to Europe and other countries to live, and others immigrate to our country. Few years ago, I heard an astonishing fact which points out that about six thousands people have left the country, and no one from the government is willing to find a solution for this problem. [More]
An Open Letter From One Lebanese To Another
By Fatina Salaheddine, Contributing Writer
Cleveland, Ohio - I am asking all Lebanese to lend me your ears, and allow my words a permanent place in your big hearts from what I’m about to say… [More]