Posted By
Najib
Feb 11, 2022 03:19
More than a third of the world's population is living under authoritarian rule according to the 2021 Economist' Global Democracy Index, and only 21 countries were labeled as full democracies. Pandemic restrictions have damaged democratic freedoms in 2021 and the global democracy index score from 5.37 to a new low of 5.28 out of ten. Lebanon is one of many countries who moved from "Hybrid Regime" to "Authoritarian Regime", which is the worst ranking out…
Posted By
Najib
Feb 07, 2022 03:42
Nabu Museum was inaugurated in 2018, but little did we know that hundreds of its antiquities were actually smuggled from Iraq following the 2003 US invasion and what the years of war and instability that followed. Yesterday, Lebanese Culture Minister Mohammad Murtada stated that Lebanon will hand over 337 pieces of smuggled antiquities to Iraq from the Nabu Museum, including 331 cuneiform tablets, in addition to six other artifacts that the museum argued were not…
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