Category Archives: News
Loubnaniyat 2020: Looking toward our second century
Loubnaniyat 2020: Looking toward our second century Rubina Abu Zeinab-Chahine| The Daily Star There are three years remaining until the Centennial of Greater Lebanon. Are we prepared to head into Lebanon’s second century? Sept. 1, 2017, marked the 97th anniversary of the declaration of the State of Greater Lebanon. In 1920, Gen. Henri Gouraud, the French […]
Children achieving the SDGs
Children achieving the SDGs Nahla El Zibawi| The Daily Star “The World’s largest lesson 2017” will start during the week of Sept. 18, the week in which the Sustainable Development Goals were adopted in 2015. This year’s plan, which is taking food, sustainability and hunger as its lesson, is part of the initiative entitled “The World […]
Can we reach democracy someday?
Can we reach democracy someday? Dima El Hassan| The Daily Star Democracy is not what we are witnessing today. It is not just a right to be exercised every few years. It is a whole cultural process in which all the people are engaged daily in the building and developing of their whole nation. Going back […]
Ikigai: Destressing, the Japanese way
Ikigai: Destressing, the Japanese way Nahla El-Zibawi| The Daily Star With so many uncertainties, instabilities and surprising changes that have been happening in this world, accumulating with our personal and professional volatility, stress has been surrounding our lives from different corners. But what is stress? And can we avoid it? The word “stress” was first mentioned […]
Sidon will make it happen
Sidon will make it happen Hiba Huneini| The Daily Star Ever since the year 6,000 B.C., there has been a historical city that was powerful enough to impose its name on historical records and its rule upon large surrounding districts and areas. Sidon used to play the role of a military maritime base as well as […]
Enacting change by the youth for the youth
Enacting change by the youth for the youth Hiba Huneini| The Daily Star Youth rights have been embedded in international treaties starting from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948; and youth issues were explicitly mentioned in the Declaration on the Promotion among Youth of the Ideals of Peace, Mutual Respect and Understanding Between Peoples […]
Youth: ‘Keepers of the republic’
Youth: ‘Keepers of the republic’ Rubina Abu Zeinab-Chahine| The Daily Star If we are living in the era of fake news, youth have the courage to change and lead the change. Their “soft power” is indispensable in preventing threats, seeking truth and transforming conflicts.After heavy discussion and research, the word post-truth, defined as “relating to or […]
The eternal quest for innovation and development
The eternal quest for innovation and development Nahla El-Zibawi| The Daily Star What is innovation? Can it be measured? Can a country be identified by its innovation level? How can we increase a nation’s innovation level?The definition of innovation has long been part of the human quest. Some studies tried to define innovation by showing how […]
Talentenomics: Real returns on investment
Talentenomics: Real returns on investment Dima El Hassan| The Daily Star “With each and every end comes a brand new story.” This is not Aristotle, nor Confucius. It is not even Jobs nor Gates nor Mandela It’s Nancy Slim, a 12-year-old girl who loves to read and write, believing that books bring change to people’s lives […]
New notion of global friendship celebrated
New notion of global friendship celebrated Hiba Huneini| The Daily Star Human life is distinguished from other forms of life on earth by the level of individual intelligence, social interactions and high cognitive capacity on both the individual and group’s level. Human beings cannot live in isolation from each other. Individuals are connected through different links […]