Teaching Amid Despair: Global Warming and Israeli Wars on Lebanon

Editor's Note: For the past two years, Rania Masri has been an assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Science and a researcher at the Institute of the Environment at the University of Balamand in Lebanon. Prior to that, she was the Director for the Southern Peace Research and Education Center at the Institute for Southern Studies in North Carolina. As a human rights advocate and environmental scientist, she has served as the coordinator of the Iraq Action Coalition (1995–2005), an elected national board member of Peace Action (1997–2005), an elected member of the United for Peace and Justice steering committee (2003–2005), and a state board member of the American Civil Liberties Union (2002–2004). Her research and activism has centered on US domestic and foreign policy on issues ranging from environmental justice and civil rights to anti-war (Iraq) and anti-occupation (Palestine). She has been a regular contributor to a wide range of print, radio, and television media, including Alternative Radio, “Democracy Now!,” International Socialist Review, and Znet.