PARIS: Sitting in rows on a grassy embankment overlooking a Paris square, around 50 asylum-seekers recite the alphabet in French following a young woman...
BEIRUT: In a room of Furn al-Shubbak’s press club Monday, students practice their radio voice with Antoine Mrad, the general manager of Radio Liban...
BEIRUT: Activists are optimistic that steps toward the inclusion of the disabled will be taken after debates with government ministers on the occasion of the...
BEIRUT: Most serious road accidents are caused by speeding and drunk driving, according to the head of the Traffic Experts’ Association, Najib Shoufani,...
BEIRUT: Former French Foreign Minister Hubert Vedrine called for European nations to abandon their post-colonialist patronizing attitude toward Arab countries...
BEIRUT: Conditions in women prisons’ and services offered to women prisoners have considerably improved in the past 10 years, but there is still...
BEIRUT: A three-day international forum on the benefits of cooperation between local governments was launched Thursday in Beirut, with Lebanese municipal...
BEIRUT: “I took heroin for 10 years and no one knew,” says 24-year-old Khaled. “I was doing everything normally ... My friends, my family,...
BEIRUT: Residents of the Nabaa building that housed five brothers arrested Tuesday in the murders of at least six people described the men as...
BEIRUT: On the heels of Lebanon’s vote against the Arab League’s decision to suspend Syria from attending its meetings, opinions in Beirut were...
BEIRUT: Prayers are recited and hymns are sung, but during Sunday’s Mass at Zkak al-Blat’s Notre-Dame de l’Annonciation, almost no words are...
BEIRUT: Social Affairs Minister Wael Abu Faour is hoping that more incidents of family violence or denial of access to health care to the disabled will come...
BEIRUT: In a Paris zoo, a little African boy stands before the cage of an old, one-eyed Alaskan blue wolf. Every morning for many days, the boy comes and...
BEIRUT: After the Health Ministry delivered a six-month deadline to unregistered nurseries to obtain licenses, many are hoping that the sector will finally be...
BEIRUT: Before returning to Ain al-Mreisseh’s small port in the capital, fishermen take a moment to remove a few fish from their net, stab them and...
BEIRUT: The president of the League of Lebanese University Professors provided an “update on the latest developments” on the professors’...
BEIRUT: In recent months, the ministries of health and social affairs have been renewing their calls to implement the disability rights law of 2000, which is...
BEIRUT: The Lebanese Addictions Center Skoun Thursday presented a draft law aiming to replace the current Narcotics Law, which they say criminalizes drug...
BEIRUT: A competition aiming to “encourage entrepreneurship among Lebanon’s youth,” and boasting a first prize of LL10 million, was launched...
BEIRUT: With the beginning of the first full academic year at local universities and schools since the eruption of the “Arab Spring,” the...
BEIRUT: A new “Lebanese Civil Coalition” demanding the “rule of law” and the departure from a society build around sectarianism was...
BEIRUT: On the occasion of the European and World Day Against the Death Penalty, the European Union delegation to Lebanon organized a presentation and debate...
BEIRUT: In front of the main entrance of a central Beirut school, 15-year-old George is very proud to show he can drive his parents’ big SUV. The...
BEIRUT: While the death penalty has not been carried out in Lebanon since 2004, activists worry it could be used again soon, and that it could trigger a...
BEIRUT: A group of independent activists are launching a campaign “to prosecute Lebanese war criminals” and abolish the 1991 Amnesty Law, a move...