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Julie for Prime Minister

The Top 10 Reasons my four-week-old niece Julie would make a great Lebanese Prime Minister are…

Don’t say cheese, Mr. Assange.

The ideal style of portraiture for news magazines is something I like to call the mug portrait, or the subjective mugshot. Here’s why.

Breast Cancer is fatal. Chemotherapy is debilitating. Bald women are unattractive. And most importantly, we shouldn’t talk about all this. These are just some of the stigmas surrounding breast cancer.

Hamra, where to?

Architecture

Take me back to Hamra Street. Not the strip of franchise restaurants, or the avenue of glass-and-steel boutiques, or the boulevard of frapuccino joints, or the thoroughfare of parceled rubble piles.

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Children of a Lesser God

Beirut

From my car window I watch them with a mixture of relief and guilt, pity and disgust, anger and despair.

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Julie for Prime Minister

Don’t say cheese, Mr. Assange.

Don’t Be a Boob

Hamra, where to?

Children of a Lesser God

Meedo Taha