by Martin Accad | Jan 14, 2013 | Opinion
Many years ago, when I was 12, I took part in a children’s summer camp in Switzerland, attended mainly by Lebanese, but also by a dozen Syrian kids. I remember a game where children were asked to declare who their hero was. There were, of course, those who had...
by Martin Accad | Nov 21, 2012 | Opinion
On June 4, 2009, about eight months after he took office for his first term, President Barack Obama addressed the Muslim world from Cairo, Egypt. His remarks were titled “A New Beginning” and were delivered from the stage of the University of Cairo, at the...
by Martin Accad | Oct 29, 2012 | Opinion
There is an issue in our Arab region these days that has become so blatantly intolerable that most people seem to have instinctively shut off their natural capacity to see it or to talk about it: the situation of “domestic workers.” Both those responsible...
by Martin Accad | Sep 24, 2012 | Opinion
The movie trailer for “Innocence of Muslims,” which was considered by millions to be offensive to Islam and to its prophet Muhammad, is in its second week of controversy. Embassies have been burnt down, people have been killed, flags of Western nations...
by Martin Accad | Aug 22, 2012 | Opinion
The phenomenon that has been labeled the “Arab Spring” is known today through its diverse incarnations in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Bahrain and Syria. It looks different in each country and is in each place at a different stage. But in each of these...
