Activists protest inclusion of Israeli-backed films in Queer Film Festival
Festival says action highlights power of film to ‘inspire discussion and dialogue.’
Tag Archives: Middle East
A year that set hearts on fire: From #ArabSpring to #Occupy and beyond
One year ago, a 27-year-old fruit vendor died to spark a global uprising. The Left Coast Post looks back on the struggles that marked 2011.
‘They had weapons pointed at our heads,’ recalls secret Gaza flotilla activist
Three days on the high seas. Three days in Israeli detention. A Vancouver woman tells her story of a bold attempt to change Israeli government policy.
War Correspondence: From the Lebanon-Israel war frontline
A photo essay that recalls the panic following the invasion of the south of Lebanon by Israel, which killed 1,200 civilians including Canadian citizens
Lebanon rising
Inspired by Arab uprisings, organizers are transforming Lebanon
With everything at stake: A year after Lebanon
The last year-and-a-half since I evacuated from the Middle East has been marked by a deep yearning to have “everything at stake” and to live in a more direct, less mediated way
Liberation is Near: Dispatches from Lebanon Besieged
My experience during the 2006 war in Lebanon gave me a better understanding of our world, and was a profound lesson
Lebanon war photo essay: ‘Tell about the children who dream dreams’
David Ball was in Lebanon when the bombs began to fall this summer. He was safely evacuated, but his life will never be the same, he writes.
Palestinian refugees in Lebanon: Community economic development
MAP-UK commissioned a series of articles and photographs of Palestinian refugees in several camps throughout Lebanon for a resource on their micro-credit loan programme
A farewell to Beirut under siege
BEIRUT – I leave a country in flames and smoke, flattened, suffering under the rumbling weight of an Israeli invasion — the country’s second in 30 years
David P Ball 