The side of syria we don't often hear about

Head of Syrian dictatorship Bachar Assad went against his family's will and married an educated woman from the opposite clan, the Sunnite one. Of course in this article, we hear here-say about his wife Asma al-Assad, but not her opinion directly.  Why is that? I wish she was on twitter, so we can tell what she really thinks, and if she has a positive influence on her country. There is no doubt that Syria can do better than a dictatorship, but what if some of the members of the current dictatorship agree?

Save Lebanon's heritage-fundraiser

An NGO campaigning to save Lebanese heritage is organizer its first fundraiser.

campaign for more humane jails in Lebanon

Soujoun is a campaign for more human jails in Lebanon. At their next outreach event, a Lebanese comedy troupe will help them convey the message!

an independent movie theatre in Lebanon

In Lebanon, it's more common to be an independent movie theatre like Metropolis. Two movies about turning a village around played there; "Where do we go now" by Labaki and "La source des femmes" by Mihaileanu.

There is hope.. in ending littering and traffic jams

A Lebanese NGO found that campaigning to end littering is paying off.
Another group of organizations organized a bike protest to promote sustainable transportation.
Imagine if these organizations scored Lebanese political parties based on their responses to these causes, and if we could vote from abroad. We would use these scores to evaluate and pick candidates that would serve the causes shared by Lebanese NGO's and the diaspora.

pharma accused of covering up data

Pseudo science takes over science, but not every supplement is bogus. More importantly, parmaceutical companies are not ethical in fully disclosing their research data, so how can we trust their trials?
In Lebanon, is the public safe from under-performing, imported pharmaceutics?

saving a Lion in Lebanon

Animals Lebanon uncovered an illegal trade of lions in Lebanon. They rescued this lion cub now relocated to South Africa.