Tag: Hummus For Thought
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Fear not the Path of Truth: An encounter with Ross Caputi
It cannot be easy. To know that you’ve participated in something which you would never be able to justify can rip one’s conscience apart. Many fall into self-medication to treat…
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Lebanese Women’s Right to Nationality protest
I participated today in the حق لي ولأسرتي (my right, my family’s right) protest organized by the Lebanese Women’s Right to Nationality and Full Citizenship NGO.
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Edward Said on Lebanon
“I have almost given up trying to plot the changes and the turns [in Lebanon], each of them denser and more complicated than the preceding ones, each of them astounding…
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AUB Secular Club’s Naji Aoun has a message for all of us
We seculars don’t often get our voice heard, but when we do we sure know how to make a point.
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Racism on Halloween
Three very sophisticated Lebanese women clearly thought this was an appropriate costume for Halloween.
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AUB Elections in 3 minutes
AUB’s secular club, of which I’m a proud former member, has just released this interesting 3 minutes video of how the AUB election system work. It is a must for all…
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Iraq’s first women’s magazine – 1923
Layla was the first women’s magazine to be published in Iraq. Launched in 1923, the magazine dealt with
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Saudi Women will drive
Tomorrow, thousands of Saudi women will defy the conservative kingdom’s ban on driving.
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Waiting for the Train Exhibition
37 years have passed since the train stopped. What was once Beirut’s main railway station is now but an abandoned memory located in a charming corner of Mar Mikhael.
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Relaunching Humans of Lebanon
Yalla, here we go again. We took a little break, but now Humans of Lebanon is back.
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What an investigation of Racism in Lebanon revealed
France24 lead an investigation in Lebanon to try and find out whether domestic workers suffer abuse in Lebanon. I’m sure you already know the answer.
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Police ignoring a civilian [Audio]
The following is a recording of a call made by a Tripolian man to the police to report armed men blocking the road.
![Police ignoring a civilian [Audio]](https://eliaayoub.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/flag_of_the_lebanese_republic.png)
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Witness: Inside Al Salam Mosque
A story from within. On the 23rd of August, two bombs exploded in Tripoli. 47 were killed, and over 500 wounded.
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Lebanese Woman hosts Syrian Refugees on her land
Humanity at its best. Courtesy of UNHCR, a very touching short video and great witness to a family’s kind heart.
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Lebanese homophobes say the darndest things
When reason, logic and actual arguments fail, what can we rely on to maintain our homophobia?
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Protest for Roula
We were around 120-150 people to join the protest calling for justice for Roula on Sunday the 21st of July.
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New Images from Turkey [4th of June ’13]
I’ve received images taken by two Turkish activists, Gülce Ataman and Ece Gulkirpik. So please share them.
![New Images from Turkey [4th of June ’13]](https://eliaayoub.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/fotograf-20.jpg)
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Updates: International solidarity with the resistance in Taksim Gezi Park
We fully support the protesters in Turkey.
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The growing need to break the silence
It really does say it all, doesn’t it, when the municipal chief of Dekwaneh cites his personal beliefs to justify the crime of violating the rights of Lebanese citizens, of…
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Sleepless Nights: A Review
A movie about two unlikely characters: Maryam, mother of a disappeared of a communist youth. Assaad Chaftari, a senior intelligence officer of the Lebanese Forces during the war.
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Start Listening
A year ago, a woman named Alem Dechasa committed suicide by hanging herself in her room at Der El-Salib mental hospital.
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The unbelievable true story of the ‘Lebanese Rocket Society’
“Before the United States went to the moon, Lebanon had a space program,” wrote IndieWire. Students at Beirut’s Haigaizian University and their Maths and Physics teacher, Manoug Manougian, launched the 1st…
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Visualizing Palestine [Infographics]
“Visualizing Palestine is the intersection of communication, social sciences, technology, design and urban studies for social justice.
![Visualizing Palestine [Infographics]](https://eliaayoub.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/vp-bombs-diorama-2013-03-04.jpg)
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The Lebanese Brain Drain
Take Back Parliament (TBP)’s expatriate section has released a video detailing the figures behind Lebanon’s infamous flight of civilians.
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5 Broken Cameras: A Review
5 Broken Cameras tells the story of a Palestinian village resisting a brutal occupation.
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In Honor of Ali, the Story of Souad
Mohamed Sabbah (video) and Karim Badra (concept) have teamed up with actress Nour Tayeh to produce the short film ‘The story of Souad, in Honor of Ali’
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Honest Advertising
In recent history, no business has received more criticism than the business of Responsible Slavery.
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‘I Have a Dream for Justice in Lebanon’
This video will help you to understand the slavery-like conditions that they are currently subjected to under the sponsorship system.
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Celebrating one year of HummusForThought
We just wanted to thank everyone for the support you’ve shown for our blog. We’ve had 5,352 unique visitors per month on average and our first goal is to reach…
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Get back in Line
by Guest Author Malek Takieddine I had a fight today with a well-known Lebanese Member of Parliament at the Heathrow airport in London. I was standing in line ready to…
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What slavery looks like
This picture was uploaded on the Anti-Racism Movement’s Facebook page by Gary Lian. What more powerful reminder do we need? the conditions that migrant workers have to go through in…
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Sit-in in Support of Gaza in AUB and LAU
by Elia Ayoub Students from the American University of Beirut (AUB) and the Lebanese American University (LAU) have each staged sit-ins in support of the murdered children of Gaza. I…
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ARM: Worker from the Philippines dead
by Elia Ayoub The Anti-Racism Movement shared this on Facebook today: Janice Soriano de Jose, worker from the Philippines, was found dead at the bottom of this building last stormy…
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ARM: Worker from the Philippines dead
ARM: Worker from the Philippines dead
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One Racist Conversation
by Elia Ayoub Lady in coffee place in Hamra to some guy, 20 minutes ago: – So should I take the Filipino? – I don’t know is she good? –…
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Update on the Karantina Slaughterhouse Report
By Elia Ayoub We have finished the report on the Karantina Slaughterhouse and are currently finishing translating it into Arabic, French and Armenian. We are about 10 active students who…
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ARM: Lebanese Beaches that openly segregate [Video]
By Elia Ayoub The Anti-Racism Movement released this video of a member calling different establishments and asking them if they would allow a migrant worker to swim if he/she paid…
![ARM: Lebanese Beaches that openly segregate [Video]](https://eliaayoub.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/images.jpg)
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Meeting the Minister of Agriculture
By Elia Ayoub We, the Environmental and Public Health class of AUB, just came back from our visit to the Bekaa where a food safety ‘debate’ took place between our…
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Inside the Karantina Slaughterhouse [Video]
The following post is an eye-witness account of the horrors happening inside the Karantina Slaughterhouse. I have visited the slaughterhouse last Monday the 2nd of July with my Environmental and…
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New Information on the Phoenician Site destroyed last Tuesday
We have received new information today relating to the Phoenician site that was destroyed last Tuesday the 26th. Document Number 1: Rock-cut slipways in Beirut by Prof. David Blackman sent…
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St. Georges Beach Club refuses entry to migrant worker
By Elia Ayoub Another racist incident was reported by the Anti-Racism Movement in Lebanon. Al-Akhbar wrote about it here. We should however note that St. Georges Beach Club is far…
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Save Beirut Heritage releases April ICOMOS report on the Phoenician site of Minet El-Hosn (Fr/Eng)
This is the Save Beirut Heritage (SBH) Release over the destruction of the Phoenician Shipyard in Mina el-Hosn, Beirut. [Version Originale Francaise] Translated into English by Elia Ayoub and posted…
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An Open Letter to Gaby Layoun
Dear Minister, I wanted to express my sincerest sadness over your failure to protect our 2,500 year-old monument. It is a sad day for our culture, our history and our…
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2,500 year-old Phoenician shipyard destroyed today in Beirut.
By Elia Ayoub I am sad to report that a 2,500 year-old Phoenician shipyard was completely destroyed today in Mina el-Hosn, Beirut. The ministry of culture has ignored some sort…
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In response to Beryte’s piece on “Atheism and Homosexuality”
This is a response to Michael Farchakh’s article “Atheism and homosexuality: allies of thought or of opportunity?” that was published in Beryte, USJ’s Faculty of Law’s newspaper. Link. Farchakh starts by…
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Thoughts on IDAHO – International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia
First, is a short article by Elia Ayoub. Second, is an article by Joseph Zailaa. I. I’ve already written about this issue in a previous article so I hope you…
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Photographs of the 2011 Lebanese Laique Pride
By Elia Ayoub Join us tomorrow as we take the streets shouting our 6 demands: 1- Enacting a unified Civil Code for the Personal Status Law. 2- Passing the Law…
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In Response to AUB Outlook’s Homophobic Article
AUB Outlook has degraded itself by allowing a homophobic article to be published in this month’s issue. Not only is it extremely poor in content but it is filled with…
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Declaration of Lebanese Men Against Article 522
By Elia Ayoub Article 522 of the Lebanese penal code suggests that a rapist can be exonerated from his horrendous crime if he decides to marry his victim. This barbaric…
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The Capitol, Ugliness and the Desert of the Real
One of the main features of the Gary Ross science fiction action film The Hunger Games is the extremely disturbing and ridiculous looks of the wealthy and powerful inhabitants of…
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Child Labor in Lebanon: We must make this a thing of the past.
By Guest Author Tatiana Saade Lebanon An original range of slavery is present nowadays, the outcome of forced servitude that subsisted along with slavery millennia ago. My ideas are purposed…
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Do Not Forget Alem Dechasa
“What makes it harder is when this girl is killed and then claimed that she had committed suicide in order to protect the Lebanese employer from legal prosecution.”
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Alem Dechasa, the Ethiopian lady who was abused by Ali Mahfouz, commits suicide today
LBCI reported today that the Ethiopian lady has committed suicide in Deir el Salib. I repeat once more that I, as a Lebanese citizen, want Ali Mahfouz in jail and…
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Lebanese Man beats an Ethiopian Woman, Raises Questions over Kafala System – Video
“What we need is to abolish the racist Kafala System condemned by the International Labor Organization”
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Week of Resistance Against Israeli Apartheid and Colonialism – Beirut
Week of Resistance Against Israeli Apartheid and Colonialism – Beirut
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Worlds Alike: Irish Film Week
For the first ever festival of Irish film in Lebanon, Lebanese NGO Nahwa Al Muwatiniya, in association with Metropolis, will screen a series of nine feature length films and twelve…
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Film Screening of “Beirut” by Rahel Zegeye
Reblogged from Migrant Workers Task Force Rahel Zegeye, an Ethiopian migrant worker, MWTF member, language student, and filmmaker, is proud to be presenting her first feature film with the support…
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Do Not Forget Khader Adnan
By Elia Ayoub “My dignity is more precious than my food”, said the 33-year old Palestinian man as he now ends his 64th day of Hunger Strike – the longest…
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Lebanon: Nepali suicide last Sunday in Ashrafieh
Lebanon: Nepali suicide last Sunday in Ashrafieh
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Beirut death of Nepalese migrant worker Lila – video
Beirut death of Nepalese migrant worker Lila
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“Life Bar” Gemmayze asks guests to dress as maids
“This Friday Night, Be Sinkara or Milenga.. Be Soumatra or Domma.. Create your own Maid Costume, Speak Like them and look like a Philippino, Bengladish, Sri Lanka or any maid…
