Mid-morning on a Friday afternoon is around the time that merchants in Tripoli’s shopping district would usually think about closing their shops before prayer. But in the past months, around half of the stores have already closed, their steel shutters plastered with “For Rent” signs. They’re the latest victims of the financial crisis suffocating Lebanon’s economy.
Read MoreWhen 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.
Read MoreGallery for Middle East Eye documenting Lebanon’s October uprising in the northern city of Tripoli.
Read MoreAudio dispatch for BBC programme From Our Own Correspondent (go to 12:00 for my dispatch)
Read MorePhotography assignment for The National feature on the ‘flag queen’ of Lebanon’s protests.
Read MoreOn 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.
Read MoreIn Beirut’s calls for revolution stand a distinct army that are protecting the mass protests from falling into violence: the women's frontline.
Read MoreLive for Belgian daily news show Terzake discussing developments in the Lebanon protests.
Read MoreGallery for Middle East Eye from the first few days of Lebanon’s October uprising.
Read MoreMost of the women Boushra Bakeer is responsible for are older than her, but she feels her responsibility toward them keenly. Sitting on benches around the edge of the production room in the needlework workshop Shatila Studio, the women stitch patterns into fabric that will be used in bespoke textile products.
Read MoreThe light reaches only a short way down the six-story ventilation shaft, at the bottom of which Ahmad al-Zoubi was found dead three days after he went missing.
Read MoreThe violence with which storm Norma hit Lebanon and devastated refugee communities has helped some smaller NGOs drive successful fundraising campaigns, raising hundreds of thousands of dollars for relief operations. However, those NGOs caution that the success of these recent campaigns belie the fact that every year providing emergency relief in Lebanon gets ever harder.
Read MoreThe phrase “during the war” means different things to different people.
For most of Lebanon, it refers to the Civil War that devastated the country from 1975 to 1990.
But when Ahmad Khanati, a motorcycle mechanic in Jabal Mohsen, says the economic situation in the Tripoli suburb was “better during the war,” he’s referring to the armed clashes that have erupted sporadically between his neighborhood and adjacent Bab al-Tabbaneh, most recently in 2014.
Read MoreIt’s after 9 o’clock in the evening, and Mira is considering sharing a secret she’s kept hidden for years. The young student wants to speak up, but the stakes couldn’t be higher: She’s worried she’ll be judged by people at her university, her friends, even – or especially – her family. She picks up her phone.
Read MoreThe boats had left Lebanon two days earlier, bound for Greece, but their passengers now faced a dilemma: push for the European mainland or cut their losses and make for nearby Cyprus and safety.
Read MoreMany of Lebanon’s lawmakers and media experts have identified that the country’s outdated media laws urgently need updating.
Read MoreDespite 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.
Read MoreThe winding streets of the Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp are reproduced in precise detail on the walls of the small office that John Whyte occupies there.
Read MoreLebanon’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.
Read MoreA 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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