Napoli Pride 2026
Hadi joins Napoli Pride 2026 for an international debate celebrating 30 years of Naples Pride. Alongside Pride organizers from Southern Italy, the event brings together voices from Odesa Pride and Beirut Pride, with a live connection to the Stonewall Inn in New York and a look ahead to EuroPride Turin 2027.
Hadi partecipa ô Napoli Pride 2026 pe nu dibbattito internazzionale ca celebra ’e trenta anne d’ ’o Pride ’e Napule. Nzìeme a ll’organizzature e a ll’organizzatrici d’ ’e Pride d’ ’o Sud Italia, ll’evento mette ’nzieme ’e vvoce d’ Odesa Pride e d’ Beirut Pride, cu nu collegamento ’n diretta cu ll’Stonewall Inn ’e New York e cu nu sguardo ver’ l’EuroPride Torino 2027.
Hadi partecipa al Napoli Pride 2026 per un dibattito internazionale che celebra i 30 anni del Pride di Napoli. Insieme a organizzatori e organizzatrici Pride del Sud Italia, l’evento riunisce voci di Odesa Pride e Beirut Pride, con un collegamento in diretta con lo Stonewall Inn di New York e uno sguardo verso EuroPride Torino 2027.
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Scapegoating Education: Exams Do Not Kill, Wars Do.
English
After an Israeli drone strike kills a father and two children returning from university exams, this article challenges the scapegoating of Lebanon’s education ministry and argues that only peace and a capable state can protect civilian life.
The propagandists struck again, and failed, as usual.
English
This article argues that equating April 8’s Israeli strikes with the Beirut port explosion of August 4 is a political framing operation that recasts victims as martyrs, shields Hezbollah from accountability, and distorts two fundamentally different tragedies.
Lorsque des activistes instrumentalisent Pâques à des fins de propagande
Français / English / Español / Português / العربيّة
Cet article montre comment un cadre du Hezbollah a instrumentalisé Pâques, falsifié le contexte d’une attaque et recyclé le trope antisémite du peuple déicide pour attiser les tensions religieuses.
On the bangs of the Lebanese Jewish disappearance: Joseph Tarab’s departure beyond religion and encounter
Français / English / العربيّة
This article explores the history, displacement, and enduring attachment of Lebanese Jews to Lebanon, calling for their dignified return and the preservation of a neglected national heritage.
Mara Ingea et son puzzle libanais fait de poésie et d’absurdité
Français / English / Čeština / العربيّة
Cet article raconte comment « Puzzles », l’installation de Mara Ingea, transforme les crises de Beyrouth en une œuvre poétique et participative, récompensée à la Quadriennale de Prague.
Why performative politics by Westerners do not benefit LGBT Qataris
English
This article argues that LGBT rights in Qatar must be led by local LGBT people, and denounces Western performative activism that endangers them.
Lebanon: Crackdown on Beirut Pride an “outrageous attempt to deny human rights of LGBTI people”
18 languages
This article condemns Lebanon’s crackdown on Beirut Pride as state harassment that denies LGBTI people their rights to expression, assembly, and dignity.
Beirut gay pride event a first for Lebanon
18 languages
This article traces Beirut Pride’s emergence as the region's first pride week, advancing LGBT visibility through grassroots culture and storytelling.
Hadi has a natural gift for creating and bringing new things to life. He has a strong vision for turning ideas into reality. He moves through life with integrity, joy, innocence, and generosity of spirit. This gives his presence warmth and authenticity. He is naturally persuasive and has an instinct for shaping messages, recognizing trends, and presenting things in a way that attracts others. At the same time, he carries the strength of a quiet warrior: resilient, truth-telling, and unwilling to accept unnecessary limits or obstacles. Patience, a higher perspective, healthy skepticism, and the ability to clearly see patterns support his path, helping him draw meaningful conclusions and make wise decisions. Altogether, this creates someone who inspires unity, success, and forward movement while uplifting others with honesty, purity, and a genuine love of life.
Hadi Damien is a cultural and media strategist working at the intersection of intellect, society, public discourse, politics, religion, language, communication, media, art, and culture. He specializes in the design, structuring, storytelling, and transmission of projects with significant intellectual, political, and symbolic impact across the cultural, public, and international spheres.
A natural leader, or guide, he sees deeply into others, sees systems others don’t see, and creates efficiency - which he shares with others. This creates an abundance of value and a deep sense of purpose, as well as unlimited resources.
An intuitive observer and thinker, he anticipates trends and studies them using open and closed sources, historical artifacts, and value systems. He then builds structures to promote positive trends and attenuate negative ones. He simulates, adapts, and implements these structures through public and private communication, media, art, culture, training, publications, and programs.
// Checks & Balances
// Personal Sustainability
Hadi has curated an evolving ecosystem that continuously tests him, challenges him, and hones his moral compass, so ethics are honored, values are upheld, temptation is curtailed, and no action is absolute.
In this sense, he "walks his walk and talks his talk," operating through trial and error, navigating perception with public ownership of mistakes, and accepting people’s confusion, jealousy, refusal to believe, and "ill-intent." After all, "this is what they know," dixit on a sunny day.
He regularly collaborates with accredited experts and coaches to enhance self-understanding, overcome blocks, and tap into new potential. Public impact is significant, and people should not suffer from untreated personal traumas, limitations, or issues.
While it is not an extraordinary accomplishment, I can assert that I have never embezzled or mismanaged funds, trafficked influence, offered goods or services in exchange for public or personal access, nor have I leveraged sexual activity, whether consensual or not.