Democracy

Shame

It is an act of utmost shame When honesty is sacrificed for fame And when a people follows a product For its name, not its conduct Alas, my people, you have become so Your minds, as malleable as dough You prefer a foreigner with no name To your countryman’s rightful claim And then you shamelessly …

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Raising Tough Kids

We need to teach our kids to be tough: the system may be synthesized to protect them from bullies, but who will protect them against a system gone wrong?

Schools nowadays are full of anti-bullying campaigns and trying to teach kids to be nice to one another. While this may work sometimes, it fails miserably most of the time. But why does it fail? To answer this question, we should first try to understand the bully. In general, a bully is usually a person …

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A Travesty Called “Lebanese Elections 2018”

Over the past few days, I placed a few comments on my Facebook account which were mostly critical of the Lebanese elections. For the first time in a while, I had an influx of comments, some of which agreed while others disagreed; moreover, some disagreed before and changed their minds after the elections. In short, …

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A Leaderless Democracy: the Solution to Lebanon’s Crisis

In light of the recent revolution in Lebanon, many issues have come to light and many others remain undiscussed. With no clear solution in sight, Lebanon remains at the same standpoint it has been at for over thirty years: how can we achieve a true democratic balance in a very small country made up of …

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Charbel M. Tadros

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Shame

Raising Tough Kids

A Travesty Called “Lebanese Elections 2018”

A Leaderless Democracy: the Solution to Lebanon’s Crisis

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