In the poorly lit stairwell of Haifa Hospital in the Burj al-Barajneh refugee camp, a large poster depicting the ancient city of Jerusalem, dominated by the gold crown of the Dome of the Rock, declares: “Visit Al-Quds.” It’s an aspiration that seems a long way off, as the Palestinian residents of the southern Beirut camp – facing poverty and heavy restrictions on rights to work – are struggling to access even basic health care services in a system under severe pressure.
Read MoreMost aspects of Blatt Chaya are influenced by a heavy dose of nostalgia, from the design of the cement floor tiles the company has been making since the late 19th century, to the techniques used to make them. But Blatt Chaya, for the first time in its history, is expanding beyond its tiled staples – offering a new range of homeware products, which launched last week at Caritas Liban Secteur Ashrafieh’s two-day fundraising event held Thursday and Friday.
Read MoreAyad Nasser has grand ambitions. “I want to be like Jesus, like the Prophet, like a good human,” he told The Daily Star. Nasser is a philanthropist and mastermind behind last year’s Ouzville project, which saw parts of the Ouzai district in Beirut’s southern suburbs painted bright colors.
Read MoreLast Saturday morning at Aaliya’s Books cafe in Gemmayzeh a small group of people gathered around a variety of technical-looking instruments. Jan Schuitemaker tinkered with a glass bowl with a flame below and a cone-shaped device with a hole in the bottom.
Read MoreA milestone was passed at the 15th edition of the Beirut Marathon Sunday, as Rabih al-Jammal became the first fully blind Lebanese person to complete the full 42-kilometer course.
Read MoreGuests at the first Annual Awareness Dinner on Food Wastage earlier this week did their utmost to further the evening’s cause, making short work of the buffet prepared by internationally renowned chef Hussein Hadid...
Read MoreNews article for the Daily Star on events being held to mark the International Day of the Disappeared around Beirut.
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