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CNN’s “The History of Comedy” features no Arabs
CNN has an interesting show airing in the USA right now. It traces the relationship between American history and comedy; in a snappy/selective CNN...
Top 7 ‘fake news’ stories on CNN
Ah "fake news" and the "post truth" era: the demise of the world as we know it through the dangerous spread of unreliable social...
President or general: what should the Lebanese press expect?
The Lebanese press has enjoyed a relative amount of freedom in recent years as I have written about here, but how much will this...
Hacking the narrative: the media reaction to criticism of Paris-Beirut coverage
The 2015 Paris attacks will be remembered as one of the most widely covered tragedies of the year, but they may also stand out...
A new era for Lebanese journalism?
As 2015 comes to a close, it's important to look back at the ways the Lebanese press behaved unexpectedly this year, confronting state power like...
Company uses images of abused women to sell apartments
Text above reads roughly: "What are you waiting for? 0 percent downpayment. Now you can be independent"
It's hard to believe this is real, but...
Framing tragedy, post Beirut/Paris coverage
I spoke to Al Jazeera program The Stream this week during a special about how Beirut and Paris have been coping with the devastating...
Abou Rakhousa and the politics of poverty
I'm hearing a lot of people say street protests are dying out in Beirut, though there are more demonstrations planned this week. Whatever the...
In latest shooting, a very different reaction
It's been over ten days since the mass shooting at US military offices in Tennessee and here in Texas, flags are still at half...
Who’s got your data?
Following my interrogation by Hezbollah last month, I was left wondering what data they may have been able to copy from my phone, which...
