Creating Peace Through Unity

On Friday, December 16, a terrorist attack carried out by a little girl with a bomb strapped to her, detonated by terroristic forces within a police station, shocked the people of Damascus, Syria. More specifically, the attack shocked those who read about it, as it...

A History of Lebanese Art – Written Art

When we seek to study and understand other cultures, where do we turn? Often, we look to  a culture’s history to learn more about it–an understanding of the origins and beliefs of a group of people often sheds light on what that culture means to the individuals within...

Five Classic Works of Fiction You Need to Read

Humanity has imagined much since written words were first used to capture and preserve experience in story form. While most of these works have disappeared from our collective memory, a small fraction of the literature we penned survived and even flourished despite...

A History of Lebanese Art–Visual Art

At the heart of the wide realm of art lies visual art. While the field of “art” encompasses more than what I can even list here–television, movies, music, sculpture, theater, performance, even martial arts–many think immediately of visual arts such as paintings or...

Traveling to Lebanon with Walif

There are just over 30 days left in 2016 before we gather to celebrate the New Year–that’s just over one month to use your vacation days at work before they expire. If you’re lucky enough that your vacation days carry over to next year, congratulations are in order,...