Nay Alhelou is a human rights researcher and journalist trying to make a difference one article at a time. She has worked for local Lebanese media and contributed articles to international media. She also worked in communications and development for the United Nations and other international organizations.
Apart from her journalistic work, Nay conducts academic research, primarily about human rights and public health.
She pursued her studies at the Lebanese American University and earned her B.A. in Journalism and her Minor in Psychology in 2016 and her diploma in Gender in Development and Humanitarian Assistance in 2017. In 2021, she earned her M.A. in Human Rights Studies from Columbia University.
Important note: Some things get lost in translation and others get lost in transliteration. That's exactly why you will sometimes find Nay's work under the byline "Nay El-Helou."
Four weeks on, the war over Nagorno-Karabakh continues despite a third ceasefire agreement that was supposed to take effect on October 26. In the meantime, a parallel war - a war of (mis)information - finally starts to make headlines.
Awareness-raising infographic on domestic violence during quarantine (in English, Spanish, and Portuguese)
In her first talk in an academic setting in the USA while serving in her current capacity, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education, Dr. Kombou Boly Barry, highlighted how education could help prevent mass atrocities.
Nay Alhelou is a Human Rights Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Human Rights and an MA candidate in Human Rights Studies at Columbia University. Her research focuses on the intersection of human rights, health and social factors.
Message from the Director of UNRWA in Lebanon Claudio Cordone to Palestine refugees on the launch of the16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence campaign [Arabic].
Greedy Internet hackers have struck Lebanon again with a scam which leaves hundreds of thousands of car owners exposed with their private data available to criminals to exploit - and the security forces, for the second time, unable to find the mastermind behind it, or block the individuals' data.
After investigations made by An Nahar about the rogue mobile application 'Plate Numbers Lebanon' - a program which gives the user names and addresses of car owners linked to their number plates - action is finally being taken.
He may be saving us from food poisoning with his latest campaign, but what is Abu Faour doing about bird flu? WHO is concerned over the absence of precautionary measures in Lebanon which, as usual, is not ready for a possible flu outbreak.
Lebanon's cut price latest 'Uber' taxi service firm is closely watching the blowback in both the US and Canada towards the service which links customers and a driver via an app - and claims to be cheaper than a regular taxi.Regular taxi drivers and firms around the world are up in arms about the cut price Uber Taxi operation - a transportation network covering cities in more than 40 countries, connecting passengers to roaming drivers.
After years of resistance, mainly from religious groups, Lebanon is edging slowly towards adopting laws to curtail the practice of child brides - a phenomena brought to the attention of media recently with the influx of over 1 million Syrian refugees.
This article and accompanying infogrraphic were produced in Arabic.
War, vegetarianism and a host of other local factors are all contributing to the reduction of male fertility amongst Lebanese men, a leading expert is claiming. With few in-vitro fertilization centers and no legal sperm banks, marriage is the first fatality with women often more in despair after discovering that they are unable to conceive.