Lebanon’s revolutionaries launch their own newspaper
Lebanese activists and journalists printed the first issue of a newspaper dedicated to covering all aspects of the country's protests.
BEIRUT — The first issue of 17 Teshreen Newspaper was published Nov. 28. The newspaper's name is Arabic for October 17, a reference to the day Lebanon's anti-government uprising began — an uprising that is ongoing and hasn't lost momentum.
Journalists and social activists started the monthly newspaper, which is free of charge and full of articles, illustrations, crosswords and other quizzes inspired by the popular protests that broke out amid deteriorating economic and social conditions in Lebanon.
Centered on the front cover of the black-and-white paper is a lyric from an Umm Kulthum song, "We are the people, there is nothing impossible for us.”
In an op-ed titled “Our street is free … our voice is free,” Lebanese film director Bashir Abu Zeid writes, “We wrote to people by the people … We decided to write in praise of our revolution and to document its events. Lebanon has risen up and will never be the same again.”
