@yasmineseale thank you for your wonderful work on The Arabian Nights! Just ordered your Aladdin and I can't wait to get it and devour it. Also just ordered Hanna Diyab's memoir because of your book. ๐คโค๏ธ
๐ต ๐ฅ Lebanese pound now at 32,350 to the US dollar.
๐โ๏ธ Phone bills (mobile, landline, internet) will quadruple (or quintuple) starting July.
@LaraAtallah @DanielGHajjar Lebanon with its current borders, aka Greater Lebanon, was created by some of the most recent colonial powers, true. But the idea of a place called Lebanon with inhabitants is thousands of years old. It's just been a very unlucky place with many occupiers over the millennia
@DanielGHajjar "Phoenicianess" aside, what is wrong with refusing any additional labels, especially one that is misleading & neo-colonial. ๐ฑ๐ง is made of many different identities and ethnicities, as are other countries in "MENA," from Morocco to Iraq. I don't identify anything other than ๐ฑ๐ง& ๐บ๐ธ
Why you should always hire a #Lebanese person? We may be the most successful immigrants, according to @Freakonomics. Our home country is in a mess, but we do well wherever we go, here's why: https://t.co/uh0gNdzYGt #lebanon#immigrantswegetthejobdone
Today, on the 2-year anniversary of the CDCโs #Title 42 public health order, Dr. Sarah Battistich and I urge @POTUS and @CDCDirector to rescind the order and resume the normal processing of asylum seekers at U.S. land borders. #EndTitle42 https://t.co/iEZ3ukwhch