المخيّلة والنظري متاهات يحكمها الإدمان - بكل ما للإدمان من معنى - إن لم تندمج مع اتصال رصين بالواقع المحلي والممارسة التنظيمية والتاريخ. والتنظيمويّة بدون أفق تحليلي إنساني نظري تتحوّل لقبليّة عمياء فاقدة لغاية سامية تقود عملها
🚨New @Oxfam analysis ahead of @IMFNews Executive board meeting on Sept 14 regarding the IMF Review of Conditionality (RoC). It will decide how @IMFNews will design future programs & conditionalities they will put for lending money to countries. Here are the stakes 1/🧵👇
Lebanon’s 2026 budget was passed at the constitutional deadline and sold as “discipline.” @MarwanIssa4, Badil’s Non-Resident Fellow, argues the numbers conceal the real story: who pays, who is protected, and what is kept off the books.
Even if the budget balances on paper, it remains regressive and austerity blocks any path to recovery. What is missing is telling too: no budgeted revenues from quarries and crushers or maritime properties.
Read more here: https://t.co/ue0bCFaLeJ
I'm looking for acting opportunities, and I don't mind if it's secondary roles or extras, just want to expand my portfolio!
Does anyone have any leads or knows people that might be looking for actors?
I have done two acting workshops and acted in three small movies so far.
في لبنان، الخبز ليس مجرد طعام.
إن اعتمادنا الكبير على القمح المستورد، وقلّة الاحتياطي، واحتكار السوق تجعل من الوصول إلى الخبز مؤشّرًا قويًا على فعالية الحوكمة.
يشرح @marwanissa4 لماذا حماية تأمين الخبز تتجاوز البُعد الاقتصادي، لتكون مسألة قيادة ومسؤولية.
🔗https://t.co/uM2Fhtc8ob
In Lebanon, bread is more than food. Our heavy reliance on imported wheat, limited reserves, and market monopolies make bread access a powerful measure of governance.
@MarwanIssa4 explains why protecting bread supply is about more than economics, it’s about leadership.
Read the full commentary - https://t.co/ML7mp3f8uT
In our latest analysis, agrifood specialist @MarwanIssa4 examines how systemic neglect and the recent Israeli war on Lebanon has pushed Lebanon’s agrifood sector to the brink, further threatening food security. The piece calls for targeted solutions, including empowering farmers through legal recognition and tackling predatory market practices, to address deep-seated inequities and pave the way for recovery. Read here: https://t.co/wCLQqIhVsK
@ThreeUKSupport Feel free to send me a Zoom meeting link to my email [email protected]
I'm not having another 2-hour long conversation with your live chat agents
Does Secularism Work for Lebanon?
A very timely event given what's happening in the country; open to AUB students, faculty, affiliates, staff.
With @hanafi1962 and @MarwanIssa4, hosted by @aubsecularclub.
@PhilipProudfoot Aren't these moves also harmful for the very economic purposes that they supposedly support? Not to mention protracted healthcare issues that are largely alleviated by care workers