Zena Youseph has first-hand experience battling one of the bigger elephants in the Arab room. After accompanying her as she first learned of the Arab mental health taboo in part one of this series, […]
Take Aniseed not Antidepressants: battling Arab taboo (III)
Mosul and the future of Iraq’s Assyrians
As the Battle for Mosul rages on, Max J. Joseph examines the various political interests at play and explores the future, within it all, for Iraq’s Assyrians… Introduction As various forces descend […]
Shimon Peres’ legacy is not one to be lauded
There is a special kind of amnesia reserved for the solemn occasion of a statesman’s death. So it is with Shimon Peres, the consummate Israeli politician, would-be Prime Minister and sometime fig-leaf […]
Take Aniseed not Antidepressants: battling Arab taboo (II)
Zena Youseph has first-hand experience battling one of the bigger elephants in the Arab room. In this second installment of her three-part Sajjeling series, Zena delves into the history of mental health taboos in Arab societies… […]
Past and present collide in A Time to Rest
Miriam Succar reviews A Time to Rest, which screened at this year’s St George Bank Lebanese Film Festival. Award-winning film, A Time to Rest, is a 2015 Lebanese documentary filmed in Beirut […]