One week ago today…
Today marks one week… one hideous week where it feels like we’re caught in a B-grade horror movie or a nightmare that won’t end. From a...
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Lina AbiRafeh
- Aug 9, 2020
- 2 min
Ridiculously Unprepared.
In Lebanon, we have a refrain that we repeat ad nauseam: We are resilient! We will rebuild! Aren’t we sick of these platitudes and pats...
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Lina AbiRafeh
- Aug 8, 2020
- 2 min
Lebanon: from tears to rage
Has it already been four days? I haven’t processed this yet, haven’t accepted the reality of our disaster, haven’t digested this foul...
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Lina AbiRafeh
- Aug 7, 2020
- 3 min
Beirut… I have no words
On Tuesday 4 August, the port of Beirut – and the city of Beirut – was decimated by an explosion whose impact will be felt for decades to...
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Lina AbiRafeh
- Jan 21, 2020
- 2 min
The tension between solidarity and survival
I’m thinking today about those who march. In the streets. Every day. About those who raise their voices for what is right. About those...
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Lina AbiRafeh
- May 14, 2019
- 4 min
Getting real about Lebanon…
Last night I spoke at the LAU Annual Gala Dinner. And here’s what I said: Today I give you bad news: In 2018 Lebanon was listed as one of...
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Lina AbiRafeh
- Nov 12, 2018
- 2 min
Mind the gap… and FILL the gap
I spent the weekend working. Again. I was invited to speak at an event called “Mind the Gap: Igniting Opportunities”, focused on fixing...
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Lina AbiRafeh
- Oct 18, 2018
- 3 min
Lebanon Looks Ahead!? But leaves women behind…
Forbes Middle East recently released a fat issue called Lebanon Looks Ahead – with a picture of PM Saad Hariri on the cover and a quote:...
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Lina AbiRafeh
- Jul 18, 2018
- 2 min
Let’s talk about sex(ual orientations)…
Let’s talk about sexual orientations and gender identities. Lots of fuss these days that Lebanon has “taken steps” (which steps? how many...
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Lina AbiRafeh
- Feb 11, 2018
- 3 min
Her body, her choice, right!? Yes, but…
It sounds like a no-brainer. Of course every single person should have agency and the ability to determine what happens to their bodies...
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Lina AbiRafeh
- Jan 28, 2018
- 2 min
Life in the UpsideDown
Sometimes, Lebanon feels like the UpsideDown – it holds so many contradictions in so few kilometers. And, I, nosy-by-nature, am an...
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Lina AbiRafeh
- Jan 18, 2018
- 3 min
Sorry-not-sorry
Why do Lebanese feel the need to compulsively say “I’m sorry” (with rolled r’s) – even when they are not in the slightest bit...
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Lina AbiRafeh
- Dec 21, 2017
- 3 min
In the aftermath of violence against women…
Rather than coming together in times of tragedy – we blame and we insult and we unleash our thinly-veiled discriminations. It was them,...
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Lina AbiRafeh
- Nov 20, 2017
- 4 min
Child Marriage: How is this still a thing?
Iraq just tossed women’s rights under the bus, throwing human rights and women’s rights back half a century. I thought we agreed,...
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