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• Lebanon: Beirut Is Burning: Rebellion Against The Elites Has Commenced
  9 November 2019, by siawi3

  The rebellion against the elites has just begun. People want to take back their country. “Revolution!” people began shouting. Lebanon has a history of left-wing, even Communist insurgencies. It also has its fair share of religious, right-wing fanaticism. Which one will win? Which one will be decisive, during this national rebellion?

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  10 octobre 2020, par siawi3
• Continuous Crisis in Lebanon
  23 October 2021, by siawi3

  Hezbollah has been one of the main actors benefiting from the financial crisis, largely due to its extensive networks of institutions and resources, which have expanded continuously since the late 1980s. With the deepening economic crisis in Lebanon since October 2019, Hezbollah also launched or supported several charitable initiatives targeting low-income households throughout 2020 and 2021. The dual use of coercion and consent allowed ruling neoliberal sectarian parties to maintain their hegemony over wide segments of the popular classes, particularly in the absence of any political alternative since the end of the Civil War. Where Is the Resistance?

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  9 mars 2020, par siawi3
• In Lebanon, a woman’s place is leading the revolution
  12 November 2019, by siawi3

  One of the most enduring images of the protests was taken on the first night, during a scuffle between a cabinet minister’s bodyguards and protesters. As one of the guards brandished a gun, a woman named Malak Alaywe delivered a swift kick to his groin. “Women have been such an important part of this revolution,” says Mariana Wehbe, a public relations consultant, who has been protesting every day. “We have been on the front lines, we have been empowering each other and we have kept the peace.”

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  11 septembre 2020, par siawi3
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  16 octobre 2020, par siawi3
• Liban : Le combat inachevĂ© et continu des fĂ©ministes de la thaoura
  4 novembre 2022, par siawi3

  Dès les débuts du mouvement, les femmes ont affirmé leur forte présence dans les rassemblements. « Nous étions plus motivées que les hommes, plus courageuses aussi. Les policiers se sont mis à être violents tant nous étions combatives et déterminées. Inconsciemment, nous avions compris que c’était le moment de montrer notre force. Avec le temps, nous avons compris qu’il fallait former des groupes féministes »

• Defend Protests in Iran, Iraq and Lebanon
  23 November 2019, by siawi3

  Following similar action in Iraq and Lebanon, the protestors in Iran are targeting Islamic rule and the clerical dictatorship, including by attacking religious institutions and seminaries, banks, police stations and representations of the clerical leadership. In all three countries, protestors are demanding jobs, improved services, an end to corruption, sectarianism and the interventions of the Islamic regime of Iran in the region. In Iraq many shouted: “Neither Sunnism nor Shiaism, but Secularism”.

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