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Lebanese man jailed nine months for beating wife
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A Lebanese man charged with beating his wife has been sentenced to nine months in jail and fined about $13,000, a monitoring group said Tuesday. Rights group #KAFA said Hussein Fatouni received the sentence after nearly killing his wife, Tamar Harisi, earlier this month. The 22-year-old victim is still recovering at a Beirut hospital from the brutal June 7 beating when Fatouni left his wife’s face and body covered in bruises. read more

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Defining “civil society” and its role in a changing region
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Civil society group, Kafa, demonstrate for a domestic violence law. (Photo: Marwan Tahtah) #civil_society group, Kafa, demonstrate for a domestic violence law. (Photo: Marwan Tahtah)

“Civil society is not an end in itself. It is a basic step to transition to a vibrant democratic society,” this was the conclusion of a study addressing the controversial issue of the definition and role of civil society in light of what it called “transformations in the Arab region.”

Bassam Alkantar

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