Adriana Lebbos

1 month ago | theliberum.com | Ahmad Ghosn |Adriana Lebbos |Arthur Blok |Paul Cliteur

Image credits: Alawite Syrians fleeing into Lebanon at Nahr el Kabir. Photo courtesy Mohamed Azakir. March 12, 2025 | Lebanon, Middle East, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey | Featured, UnderstandingHay'at Tahrir al-Sham and its allies shocked the world by overthrowing the Syrian regime in eleven days last year. This week, they overthrew themselves in eleven hours when carrying out their ethnic cleansing against the Alawite sect, documenting the massacre on social media and calling for jihad.

1 month ago | theliberum.com | Nikola Mikovic |Paul Cliteur |Emad El-Din Aysha |Adriana Lebbos

Image credits: The much-debated meeting between U.S President Donald Trump and Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky. Photo courtesy AFP. March 10, 2025 | Europe, Russia, Ukraine, United States | Featured, UnapologeticWhere two are fighting, the third wins. If this proverb is correct, Russia would have to be the primary beneficiary of the worsening relations between the United States and Ukraine, following the recent spat between the two nations’ leaders, Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky.

1 month ago | theliberum.com | Paul Cliteur |Arthur Blok |Adriana Lebbos |Rafael Baroch

March 7, 2025 | Lebanon | Featured, UnderstandingI have always hated the gym. Not in a casual, “Oh, I don’t feel like working out today” kind of way, but in a deep, visceral, “I would rather study math while listening to elevator music” way. And yet, every few years, I find myself in a new episode of self-delusion, convinced that this time will be different. Spoiler: it never is.

1 month ago | theliberum.com | Arthur Blok |Paul Cliteur |Emad El-Din Aysha |Adriana Lebbos

In a knife attack in the French city of Mulhouse in late February, one person was dead and several injured. The attacker was an Algerian. Or rather a Muslim immigrant from Algeria. Who is still surprised hearing about an Islamic terrorist attack in Europe? The mainstream media, however, tries to downplay it as much as possible. This also applies to the trial against Hadi Matar (24), who attacked Salman Rushdie on a stage in 2022 in the US. Matar was found guilty of attempted murder last week.

1 month ago | theliberum.com | Emad El-Din Aysha |Nikola Mikovic |Adriana Lebbos

With some reservations, I watched one of George Lucas’s non-sci-fi epics, American Graffiti (1973), a forgotten coming-of-age comedy-drama film. I have to admit; I was completely blown away!By Emad AyshaThis movie is a classic, possibly the best 1950s flick ever made, immortalising that long lost world of smalltown America with its suburban frolics and claustrophobic sprawl.