Mona Khneisser is a doctoral candidate in Sociology at the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign, researching Lebanon’s 2019 economic collapse.

June 21, 2026

• Martijn Konings

Public Bailouts Are What Keeps Our Economic System Afloat

Every time our economic system generates another crash, the state is on hand with public money to bail out private losses. It’s time we stopped seeing bailouts as individual episodes and recognized them as a core feature of contemporary capitalism.

November 07, 2019

• Mona Khneisser

Lebanon’s Protest Movement Is Just Getting Started

The massive protest movement in Lebanon, now in its fourth week, is still far from its goal of systemic change. But the unprecedented demonstrations against austerity show no sign of slowing down.