Find our other interviews with liberal and democratic youth organisations here. How long have you been active in politics in general, and in Future Youth specifically? I actually started to be active in politics with Future Youth. That was almost…
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One month before the centennial of the founding of the country, the Beirut explosion serves as a grim reminder of the dark state of Lebanon. The country seems to relive similar scenarios from the past, where sectarianism and warlord politicians…
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Goodbye London! I can’t believe that my time in London has come to an end. To try to summarise the past five months in just one blog post seems like an impossible task, but I’ll try my best. My time…
It feels like ages since my last blog post! It’s my last month in London (how crazy is that?!), and a lot of things are happening. At the moment I’m in Belfast with my colleagues from Liberal International. We have…
Last October, the Lebanese parliament elected a new president ending a two-and-a-half-year power vacuum that had crippled the functioning of the government. Just over six months later, Lebanon was drifting into yet another political crisis that could leave the country…
Continue reading At Long Last… The Lebanese Prepare for Parliamentary Elections
Fares and Hamada, two little boys that have so much in common. They share the innocence of every child. They just want to play on a playground with their friends, go to school, learn new things, explore and be happy.…
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“I am More Lebanese than half of you guys!” He used to say it smiling. Jamal, or Jack as he liked us to call him, is a Turkish immigrant from a Lebanese mother and a Lebanese wife. He spent all…
Continue reading Jack’s Café – An Immigration Problem in Lebanon – Ahmad Al Rachwani
