The History of Beirut Central District Facing the glass facades of the office buildings next to the perfectly cut grass squares, where one isn’t allowed to sit it is hardly imaginable, that this was once the vivid center of merchants in Beirut. After being destroyed in the early years of…

Forced Migration Review issue 62 with a major feature on ‘Return: voluntary, safe, dignified and durable?’, and a mini-feature on ‘Towards understanding and addressing the root causes of displacement’, is now online: www.fmreview.org/return. Voluntary return in safety and with dignity has long been a core tenet of the international refugee…

In its fortieth year, the Iranian Revolution has become a victim of teleology. In order to explain the sectarian malaise of the present-day Middle East, observers point to the global shock caused by the Shah’s entirely unexpected downfall.[1] “Radical” Shiʿism, it seems, was set loose in the spring of 1979.…

Etzbach: You founded the Syrian Press Center (SPC) together with others in 2013. What does the SPC do, what did you hope to achieve with it? Al-Ahmad: I studied journalism and worked as a journalist from 2011 onwards. Before the revolution I briefly worked with the regime’s media, but ended…

This article will provide an overview on female-led social justice movements tackling gender inequality and gender-based violence (GBV) within Palestinian camps in Lebanon. Using qualitative data from six camps[1], this article will analyse emerging initiatives to achieve gender justice by women within the camp’s social and governance context. Lebanon has…