Rania Masri is a human rights advocate and environmental scientist. Born in Lebanon, she is the coordinator of the Iraq Action Coalition and served as the Arab Women's Solidarity Association's representative to the United Nations. She's the director of the Southern Peace Research and Education Center at the Institute for Southern Studies in Durham, North Carolina. A dynamic speaker, she's in great demand all over the country. She's also a producer of a new documentary entitled About Baghdad.
Armed clashes between the Shiite militia and political party Hezbollah and pro-government forces in Lebanon left up to 82 people dead and…
RANIA MASRI is a Lebanese-American antiwar activist and author currently teaching at the University of Balamand in Lebanon. Her writings during the…
Here is the story, as it is told: Hezbollah kidnapped 2 Israeli soldiers. Israel responded with a military assault on LebanonĆ¢€ā¢s infrastructure,…
Ā Dear friends, Thank you all for your letters of concern. Yes, I am in Lebanon, and, yes, I am safe, as safe…
Food. Access to food. The right to produce food. The right to sell food. The ability to purchase food. These simple maxims…
Soldiers ripping walls apart with bullets, destroying buildings, killing families ‘ all as they search for ‘terrorists.’ Men and boys picked up…
WE ARE regularly told, by our corporate-I mean, our “free” press-and by our “president,” elected by this “free” nation in our functioning…
In the fog of war, we are being told that this invasion against Iraq, this premeditated act of aggression, is actually a…
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