The Lebanese composer, Serge Helou helps immigrants in the US to fight their PTSD

The New Eastern politics Art and Culture Contributor, Christiane Waked spoke to Serge Helou, a brilliant Lebanese composer who lives in Pennsylvania and uses his music as a therapeutic tool to communicate with immigrants with post-traumatic stress disorder confirming what Friedrich Nietzsche said: 

The Kurds of Lebanon: identity, activism and ideology (By Clare Maxwell)

Many members of the Kurdish community in Lebanon cannot give a solid answer to the question of whether they consider themselves Kurdish first and foremost, or Lebanese. It’s a conundrum shared by many other national and ethnic groups in the country, who arrived in

The Armenian Genocide: Solidarity vs. Denial (Yeghia Tashjian)

While Lebanese-Armenians continue to commemorate the anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, the Lebanese are still debating the tragic event on social media. The Racism and sectarianism that is flourishing on daily basis in the region is also reflected in Lebanon. While some look at

Why we remember, 99 years after the Armenian Genocide (By Yeghia Tashjian)

For your freedom we have lived and for your independence we are dying.” —Abdul-Karim el-Khalil, with a rope around his neck, May 6, 1916. Every year, Armenians all over the world — in Armenia and the diaspora — commemorate the anniversary of the genocide