Articles & Interviews
Hassan Saab-The dream of Development
“A leading mind and a pioneer of revival, credited with launching a national movement grounded on science, armed with culture and keen on keeping up with the times to resurrect Lebanon after it almost became a dying country.”
These lofty words with which the head of the Lebanese Press...
Frank Ferris and Hibah Osman -
On the sidelines of the Middle East Medical Assembly for 2014, The Monthly had the opportunity to meet Dr. Frank Ferris, a renowned American physician with more than 27 years of expertise in palliative medicine and an impressive track record in promoting palliative care at a global level as well as...
Antoine Boutros - Fractal Mathematics (2)
This logic is the analytical geometry which was conceptualized by the French philosopher and mathematician René Descartes in the nineteenth century.
Hanna Saadeh - Antibiotic Colitis
Over the past one hundred years, certain diseases have emerged because of increasing antibiotic use and abuse. Historical examples abound and include the penicillin-resistant-staphylococci, which emerged after penicillin became widely available. Another consequence of the rising antibiotic use and...
Antoun Saad-The rule of the Mukhabarat
Having chaired Lebanon’s Deuxième Bureau, present-day Army Intelligence, for over 12 years (March 1952- August 1964), the name of Antoun Saad has always had room on the political, security, military and even economic and social scenes. Saad died 37 years ago on June 26, 1977 but the distinctive...
Hanna Saadeh - Cervical Cancer Screening (The Old Pap Smear & The New HPV Test)
Cervical cancer is the third leading female cancer, killing 275,000 women annually. The annual cost of the 50 million screening tests done in the US is about $6 billion. The traditional Pap smear, which has its limitations, is no longer the screening test of choice for women over the age of 29....
Globalization - Ahmad Mannawi
In today’s era of openness and globalization, it’s no use isolating ourselves from other communities, or holding blindly onto our civilization while shutting the door on others’. One must take a step towards all human civilizations and explore their richness and knowledge to better...
Said Chaaya - The 1908 Young Turk Revolution in the Ottoman Empire
Of the Ottoman elites who graced the 19th century with their knowledge and literature, we recall Shaker Beik El-Khoury, who was not only a physician, but a man who enriched the Arab intellectual library with numerous books reputed for their blistering criticism and descriptions, especially...
Michel Nawfal - Cohabitation
It is very common today to find couples that favor cohabitation over marriage as their first living together experience. Cohabitation is an arrangement where an unmarried couple live mutually in a long-lasting relationship which can resemble marriage. Couples who decide to cohabit are very often...
Nour Hwaily - Pity the Nation!
We rejoice, celebrate and take pride in our Lebanon, but hardly ever realize the profundity of our suppression and defeat. Instead, we continue to swell with pride.
