A short distance from Baghdad’s Tahrir Square, Reem al-Obeid sat and watched as, next to the tent that has been her home for some four months, a group of young men fashioned makeshift shields from discarded oil drums.
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When the waters finally receded, Lebanese in the south Beirut suburb of Jnah were left looking at a carpet of brown sludge and stains running up every wall.
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Basma, a nearly six-year-old purple Muppet with pigtails, loves to dance. She can’t always find the words to express herself properly, and so reverts to the Arabic idiom, “Yella!” (let’s go), when she wants to set off on a new adventure.
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On a sleepy Tuesday morning, Martyrs’ Square stands temporarily empty of the hundreds of thousands of protesters who have made downtown Beirut the centre of their uprising since 17 October.
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Despite the optimism shown Monday by staff and students at the ceremony to celebrate the opening of UNRWA schools across Lebanon, the pressure under which the organization is operating was all too obvious.
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Lebanon’s Minister of State for Refugee Affairs Mouin Merehbi said Lebanon would reject any peace plan that made the resettlement of Palestinians in a host country a condition, less than a week after a report revealed that senior U.S. official Jared Kushner mooted such an option.
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A long-running saga over the stalled implementation of a law designed to promote the rights of disabled people in Lebanon entered a new chapter recently when the Labor Ministry committed to administering the law.
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As the Jabal Moussa Biosphere Reserve celebrated the opening of a new hiking trail Thursday, officials said they hoped the reserve would demonstrate the value of protecting their natural heritage.
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A video that recently went viral on social media opens with a woman running past the camera, a look of fear on her face. The camera then approaches a Lebanese man, who forces another woman to the floor, beating her around the head. She cries out in pain.
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The European Union Election Observation Mission emphasized the lack of political representation for women at a presentation of its final report on Lebanon’s May 6 parliamentary elections Tuesday.
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Caretaker Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil doubled down on his recent combative rhetoric toward the U.N. refugee agency Wednesday, extending his attacks to the wider international community. Bassil, speaking from a cave in which 10 Lebanese soldiers captured by Daesh (ISIS) in 2014 were held, said he was thinking “of the conspiracy that threatened our existence ... I am thinking of all those responsible in the international community who committed such a crime against Lebanon and Syria.”
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International monitors and local electoral NGOs gave conflicting reports Sunday regarding the severity of issues facing Lebanese voters at polling stations. Speaking at Al-Amir Shakib Arslan School in Beirut’s Verdun, Chief Observer of the European Union’s Election Observation Mission Elena Valenciano said the day went “without major incident.”
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The term “fake news” was named the Collins Dictionary Word of the Year in 2017, with a 365 percent rise in usage compared to the year before. But despite increasing attention to the phenomenon, many working in Lebanese media consider fake news a symptom of deep-rooted problems that have existed in the region for decades.
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Speaking at a ceremony marking the 40th anniversary of UNIFIL held in Naqoura Monday, veteran Irish peacekeeper John O’Mahony reflected on the value of the service for which he so nearly gave his life.
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British Home Secretary Amber Rudd is reportedly looking to extend the U.K. government’s refugee resettlement scheme for Syrians after a visit to Lebanon this week.
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Prime Minister Saad Hariri Saturday commended the decision of a judge in Tripoli after an unusual sentence was given that spared three young Lebanese men jail time for the potentially serious crime of contempt for religion. The men, aged between 16 and 18, were accused of insulting Christianity. Judge Joceline Matta ruled that the men would avoid prison as long as they memorized verses of the Surat al-Omran from the Quran.
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The Lebanese Army Saturday received eight M2A2 Bradley Fighting Vehicles, the second shipment of an ongoing package of American military aid.
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Over 40,000 households will soon be surveyed as part of Lebanon’s largest study on labor force and living conditions. The Labor Force and Household Living Conditions Survey, carried out by the Central Administration of Statistics with the technical support of the International Labour Organization and funding from the EU, is set to enter the field work phase, the body announced during a launch event at the Grand Serail Wednesday.
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The number of Syrian refugee households without a single member having legal residency increased by 26 percent in the last year, an annual study published Friday by the U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR), the U.N. Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the World Food Program found.
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Entrepreneurs from across the country gathered this week to hear a talk by Peter Holbrook, who is leading the charge to push investment in social enterprise globally in his role as Chief Executive of Social Enterprise U.K.
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