Author: Ghida Ismail
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The Pull Out Of The Poverty Trap
One warm afternoon in the historic Chawkbazar neighborhood of old Dhaka in Bangladesh, Shawkat, a 55-years-old rickshaw driver, was resting on the side of a road after hours of pulling his rickshaw in the day’s insufferable heat. On the other side of the road, a ten-year-old girl was standing with a toddler in her arm,… Read more
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Is Lebanon experiencing a revolution of the mind?
Tagged on one of the pillars of the resuscitated Egg in downtown Beirut is “ثورة فكرية” (revolution of the mind), a statement whose hidden artist scrawled to describe the nationwide protests that have commanded the streets of Lebanon since October 17, 2019. The protests attracted millions of Lebanese people from different confessions, regions and socio-economic… Read more