Posted By
Najib
Jun 27, 2015 09:54
via Mahmoud Ghazayel The picture above was taken in Lebanon back in 2006, however it's not a gay parade but an anti-government demonstration led by the opposition back then. Needless to say, the parties who were organizing this demonstration probably had no clue what these colors stood for and would have never considered demonstrating in favor of same sex marriages. In fact, we still live in a country where people from different religions cannot marry…
Posted By
Najib
Jun 26, 2015 07:18
Another mass iftar held by a bunch of activists and well-doers in town. The iftar gathered people from both religions to share iftar on a same table in a one-of-a-kind event where everybody contributed to the table. Mosques and Churches announced Maghrib prayer, the time to break the fast, in an out of this world audio-visual scenery. I was finalizing this post with my friend Natheer when I heard about the terrorist attacks in Kuwait,…
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