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The commodification of Higher Education From the United Kingdom to Lebanon: cases of academic challenges that unveil underlying political tragedies
/by نجيب حمادةDeath Boats: The Sectarian Regime’s Most Salient Gifts
/by نجيب حمادةAnother Opportunity for Lebanon
/by نجيب حمادةThe union uprising
We call on all engineers, across the entire political and confessional spectrum, and union members in general, to act in wisdom and courage in this delicate and historic moment. After celebrating this electoral victory, we call on them to join us in our political struggle, which aims to impose a transitional government that would stop the collapse and build the foundations of a civil state.
/by نجيب حمادةTransition and Rupture
We will continue to deploy our efforts to convince those who are supposed to be our partners of the urgency and the need to strengthen this alternative rather than prepare for random elections. In the meantime, as a party, we continue to work towards strengthening the alternative and we call on all citizens who are ready to shoulder their responsibilities to join and/or support us.
/by Mounir DoumaniLebanon: what happens when a ruling class goes unchecked
The current financial crisis and political crisis were predicted back in 2018 by Charbel Nahas, former minister and current General Secretary of the vibrant young movement ”Citizens within a State”. Nahas tried to warn “our” heads of state and the ruling class, to no avail.
/by Mounir DoumaniRania Masri: All the Lebanese sectarian leaders are responsible for the catastrophic explosion
/by Mounir DoumaniLebanon: “An American-Iranian negotiation is happening behind the scenes”
We are trying to bring out a radical and structured alternative. We are talking with retired generals to have a voice that stops a possible engagement of the army in a security arrangement.
/by Mounir Doumani‘Citizens in a State’, an alternative plan
We are heading towards a dangerous and dark place, and this will put the leaders in front of two options, either negotiate a peaceful transfer of power through a transitional phase, or face violence and loss
/by Mounir DoumaniWho are we?
The household, the neighborhood, the quarter, the city, the region, the continent, the globe! Where does the community start and stop?
/by Mounir DoumaniCharbel Nahas: Building a civil state in Lebanon is our project
Although eight months have passed since October 17, the Lebanese people still need to understand what has really happened. Many have lost their jobs and the Lebanese Pound has lost much of its value. But many, including the elites, are yet unaware that the six sectarian leaders who are now repositioning are responsible for what has happened. Grasping what’s happening takes time.
/by Mounir DoumaniSecretary-General of “Citizens in a State” to Al Sharq: The Lebanese Regime Has Fallen
All of the above finally led citizens to take the streets in protest on October 17, 2019 as a reaction to express their refusal of what’s happening. This will be the topic of this discussion’s second and final part.
/by Mounir DoumaniOur society is suffocating
Our society is su ocating and we need to intervene collectively and immediately.
/by Mounir DoumaniLebanon’s economic crisis threatens to destroy its middle class
But the exodus also deprived the country of its most-qualified professionals, something Mr Nahas feared would happen again now as employment opportunities disappeared. “This would mean maybe for 40 [or] 50 years a dramatic change in the structure of the society,” said Mr Nahas. “This is much more severe and persistent than accounting losses.”
/by Mounir DoumaniExpecting the collapse: Meet Lebanon’s young political party ready to take power
Catching up with him a year and a half later, he corrects me. His party Mouwatinoun wa Mouwatinat fi Dawla (Citizens in a State) aren’t waiting for Lebanon to collapse – they are expecting it.
He said “waiting” seemed passive.
“Only in moments of crisis, political or economic, can you change the power structure,” he told me during our meeting in Beirut in 2019.
I remember nodding politely, perhaps in my own naivety as a fresh journalist only in her first few months working in Beirut, with a shallow understanding of the depth of the country’s problems or the fragility of the political bedrock.
/by Mounir DoumaniHe said “waiting” seemed passive.
“Only in moments of crisis, political or economic, can you change the power structure,” he told me during our meeting in Beirut in 2019.
I remember nodding politely, perhaps in my own naivety as a fresh journalist only in her first few months working in Beirut, with a shallow understanding of the depth of the country’s problems or the fragility of the political bedrock.