BEIRUT: The best things in life are free – except, perhaps, education. As students head into their final year of high school, not only must they contend...
JEZZINE, Lebanon: “It’s not [about] the money, it’s the people,” European Union Ambassador Angelina Eichhorst told Jezzine municipal...
BEIRUT: Erected in haste almost two weeks ago, the UNHCR’s refugee reception center at the Masnaa border remains unopened, but the organization is in...
BEIRUT: It’s back. For the third consecutive year the Collectif Kahraba theater company is calling Mar Mikhael residents and visitors to the streets...
NAQOURA, Lebanon: Israel’s military response last month to a rocket attack launched from Lebanese soil was a form of “balance,” the force...
MASNAA, Lebanon: A rapidly constructed reception center for Syrian refugees at Lebanon’s Masnaa border crossing has yet to become operational, the U.N....
BEIRUT: Once upon a time, or so the anecdote goes, alprazolam (aka Xanax) and anti-anxiety medicines of its ilk were passed around Beirut’s Civil War...
BEIRUT: Work began Friday on a reception center for newly arrived refugees on the Lebanese side of the Masnaa border crossing in the Bekaa Valley. The center...
BEIRUT: The acronym MOOC found its way into the Oxford Online Dictionary this month, and is fast earning familiarity across the Arabic-speaking world too....
BEIRUT: Under-equipped and under-trained, hospitals admit shortcomings when it comes to coping with chemical weapons victims as fears of an attack grow in...
BEIRUT: Naming a healthy eating restaurant Fiber hardly seems wise. If ever there was a word to dissuade dinnertime excitement and conjure instead images of...
BEIRUT: With the international community effectively paralyzed, the Syria crisis is “getting worse every day,” former United Nations humanitarian...
BEIRUT: The government is ready to cooperate to facilitate the registration of Palestinian associations operating in the country, caretaker Interior Minister...
AWKAR, Lebanon: The United States has already given more than $1 billion in humanitarian relief for the Syrian crisis but even this immense sum will prove...
BEIRUT: This year on the occasion of World Humanitarian Day, the United Nations made a request. The organization asked people around the world to finish the...
BEIRUT: While Syrian refugees may indeed face greater risks of contracting communicable diseases, misinformation pertaining to the nature and extent of these...
BHAMDOUN, Lebanon: In Le Telegraphe, the French bistro-style restaurant run by the Chateau Belle-Vue winery in Bhamdoun, a single ceramic tile embedded in the...
BEIRUT: The kidnapping early Friday of two Turkish Airlines pilots en route from Rafik Hariri International Airport to a hotel in Beirut was an...
BEIRUT: A lot of papers and panels but limited payoff – that’s how Fady Bustros and Sabine Abi Farah summarize the Lebanese Renaissance...
BEIRUT/SIDON, Lebanon: Refugees of the Syria conflict consider themselves lucky this Eid al-Fitr as they prepare to celebrate in the relative security of...
Editor’s note: The following piece is the sixth installment in a series focusing on Syrian refugees in Lebanon. BEIRUT: The playground and hallways of...
BEIRUT: Lebanon deserves to be thanked for keeping its public schools open to Syrian refugees, but the country needs assistance to ensure the system...
BEIRUT: “Children naturally do yoga,” instructor Sahar al-Khatib says, explaining that among the asanas, or yoga postures, are a number of “child poses” named...
BAR ELIAS, Lebanon: The United Kingdom will give an additional 50 million pounds ($74 million) to Lebanon’s Syrian crisis relief effort, the...
BEIRUT: It is within the remit of a caretaker Cabinet to approve the building of refugee camps for Syrians, but divisions within the government means a...