In 2005, after 10 days of searching some of Beirut’s poorest neighborhoods, Maher Attar had almost given up hope of finding Samar Baltaji
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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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Most 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.
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Ayad 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.
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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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Iman Moussa is a quiet child, but has a bright smile that masks the fact that the 3-year-old with rich black hair and olive skin has spent the last year undergoing chemotherapy for cancer that once rendered her immobile. However, neither her mother nor her doctor are smiling, as the money for Moussa’s treatment is running out and with it her options.
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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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Last 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.
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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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Lebanon’s name purportedly derives from the Phoenician root l-b-n, meaning white, after the snow-capped peaks that crown the country’s famous range. One Lebanese mountaineer has grand plans for what he believes is an unprecedented solo ski across Mount Lebanon. But he’s hoping that the mountains live up to their reported moniker: the unseasonably warm weather has so far failed to deliver enough snow for him to make his attempt.
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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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Three-year-old Sarah’s face was covered with black, necrotic skin from the frostbite. Appearing to sleep under a clean white blanket in a hospital in the Lebanese border town of Suweiri, the doctor said she had in fact been in a semi-comatose state since being brought in late last week.
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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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“I prefer to not stay here – you can see how the situation is,” Abd al-Mohsen from Syria’s Homs said as he sat on an orange plastic chair in his family’s wood-framed tent sealed with patchwork nylon in the Bekaa Valley.
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For Donna Maria Feghali, founder and creative director of Retrieving Beirut, Lebanese identity and culture are nebulous concepts.
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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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A decade working in photojournalism around the world taught Jekaterina Saveljeva two things: Not enough photojournalism is done by locals, nor are there enough women working in the industry.
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A 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.
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Following his talk on “Robots and our Future Life” to the packed Issam Fares Auditorium at Notre Dame University’s Faculty of Engineering, a student asked Hiroshi Ishiguro why he had not brought his “geminoid” - a robot designed to look like exactly like Ishiguro, and capable of a degree of interaction with humans...
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In the early hours of the day he was due to leave Beirut, mortar shells hit Steve Hindy’s hotel. Hindy, a veteran war reporter and Middle East correspondent for the Associated Press, picked up a still warm piece of shrapnel from the blast site...
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