Published & Produced

Published & Produced

Features Published & Produced By MainGate Staff Spring/Summer 2020 Art Written Word Fourteen, Traditional Emirati Talli thread and acrylic paint on wood, 80x80cm, Year 2020 Artist Noura Ali-Ramahi (BBA ’97): Learn more about Noura in this issue’s...
From the Editor

From the Editor

  From the Editor Spring/Summer 2020 July 2020 Dear MainGate readers, As I write this, I am sitting in front of the only window to the world most of us have in the summer of 2020. As potential hosts to a deadly virus, we are homebound, masked, and socially...
A virologist speaks

A virologist speaks

  Features A virologist speaks by MainGate Staff Spring/Summer 2020 In an interview last April, Nada Melhem discussed the pandemic. She explained that COVID-19 (“CO” for corona, “VI” for virus, “D” for disease, “19” for year originated) is caused by the severe...
Two different kinds of contamination

Two different kinds of contamination

  Features Two different kinds of contamination by MainGate Staff Spring/Summer 2020 Noor Jaber Chehayeb (MPH ’17) was at her apartment in Rabat, Morocco, when the COVID-19 lockdown went into effect. She’d arrived in the country five days earlier as a newly...
A perfect storm of data

A perfect storm of data

  Features A perfect storm of data by MainGate Staff Spring/Summer 2020 The dual crises of COVID-19 and economic collapse are altering the fabric of Lebanese society in unforeseen ways, playing off one another. The news media relentlessly reports on various...