Independence

Berri and Hezbollah’s State

Lebanon’s 81st Independence Day passed without a president. For the third consecutive year, this key officeholder was absent from the celebrations, following the end of Michel Aoun’s term in late October 2022. This year, Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri delivered the Independence Day address, stepping in for the president’s customary ...

Change Lebanon and CCLF Organize a Rally in Paris

On the occasion of Lebanon’s Independence Day, the Lebanese Community in France, under the “Change Lebanon” (CL) initiative, and in coordination with its various components, including the Comité de Coordination Libano-Français (CCLF), is organizing a rally at Place du Panthéon in Paris. The event will take place tomorrow, Sunday, November ...

Life Impossible Elsewhere...

November 20, 2024, I’m boarding the return flight from Dubai to Beirut. The news isn’t great, but I’m used to it — uncertainty clings to me like a second skin. I’m Lebanese. That imperceptible tension between the unparalleled joy of coming home and the unbearable insecurity of feeling trapped there is my daily reality. I accept it ...

A Surge of Poeticism in Festive Times

Refined comments pour in during the national holidays: Independence Day, Flag Day, the First Liberation Day, the Second and the Nineteenth. Yet, no one truly believes in the poetry written for these occasions. The mandate era is increasingly seen as more merciful than the independence we now endure, constantly violated by those surrounding ...

CCLC on Independence Day: Call for a New Cedars Revolution to Liberate Lebanon

On Lebanon's Independence Day this year, the Coordinating Committee of Lebanese-Canadians (CCLC) issued a stark message about the country's dual occupations by Iran and Israel, calling for unity among opposition forces to reclaim Lebanon's sovereignty. With one third of the population displaced, widespread destruction in the South and Beqaa ...