Everyone's outraged and shocked by Interior Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq's recent statement that tens of detainees arrested on charges of shooting celebratory gunfire were released due to political interference. Manshnouq went on to blame the judiciary and political interference for their release, which is quite ironic given that he belongs to one of the ruling political parties. So how is that statement shocking? It never happened before in Lebanon? People getting out of prison because they…

I'm glad the Beirut municipality has finally decided to clean Martyrs Square's statue and plant some flowers around it. The statue and the walls surrounding it were repeatedly vandalized unfortunately during the protests and sit-ins in the past few years and the municipality hasn't done much to preserve the square. In fact, even though it looks much nicer now, the statue is barely showing with all the buildings around it and cars parked next to…