BAABDA, Lebanon: Joseph Toman leaned on the heavy wooden door of St. Raphael Chaldean Cathedral and sighed in exasperation. He wore a dirty shirt and his...
BEIRUT: Lebanon has witnessed a surge of women’s rights activism on the streets recently, as women rally for greater equality and for protection for...
BEIRUT: While Syrian-Palestinian sociologist Sari Hanafi’s election last week as the first ever Arab vice president of the International Sociological...
BEIRUT: Lebanon’s Shura Council Tuesday annulled a Cabinet decision that had suspended the implementation of a long-awaited traffic law, putting the...
BEIRUT: Palestinian mothers weep over the bodies of children whose expressionless faces indicate their untimely fate. Israeli rockets strike three-story...
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of weekly articles interviewing pioneering Lebanese women. BEIRUT: Elisabeth Zakharia Sioufi found her calling...
BEIRUT: Lebanon has ruled out a plan to import water from Turkey to alleviate its shortage, resorting to dig more wells instead and siphon groundwater, Deputy...
BEIRUT: Claudia Kassab Tarazi is not a woman of small dreams. The 40-year-old left a successful post in Dubai only a few years ago and took a leap – a...
TRIPOLI, Lebanon: More road accidents are expected to take place in Lebanon, the secretary-general of YASA International told The Daily Star Friday, after a...
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of weekly articles interviewing pioneering Lebanese women. BEIRUT: “It is perfectly natural for the future...
SALOU, Spain: With only 48 hours to explore a massive multithemed park and wearing flimsy shoes certainly not made for much more than a stroll, eight...
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of weekly articles interviewing pioneering Lebanese women BEIRUT: Clad all in black save for an orange scarf,...
BEIRUT: Cancer patients in Lebanon will soon be able to benefit from a new genetic test that helps to identify the best course of treatment more precisely,...
BEIRUT: With the long-awaited trial set to resume Wednesday, experts and analysts said the Special Tribunal for Lebanon would carry on with its mandate,...
BEIRUT: Patients across the region are needlessly dying from treatable cases of cancer due to fear, taboos and a lack of knowledge about the disease,...
BEIRUT: An already nerve-wracking experience for thousands of Lebanese youths, Lebanon's official exams that should simply be a mundane rite of...
BEIRUT: For Eid Tartoussi, the nonprofit organization Teach a Child has done much more than just put his three children through school. For the first time in...
BEIRUT: Activists are lobbying for further awareness and control of the meat industry after Lebanon was rocked by repeated cases of shops selling expired...
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of weekly articles interviewing pioneering Lebanese women from various sectors BEIRUT: “I act peacefully....
BEIRUT: A husband who had been abusing his wife for over a year was detained Friday, the first time the law against family violence was enforced. Public...
BEIRUT: For better or for worse, in sickness and in health, Michel Sleiman has married himself to the country’s fate and led it through one of its darkest and...
BEIRUT: John Lee Hooker’s loud, bluesy tune “The Healer” plays on a turntable as Diran Mardirian smokes a rolled-up cigarette, the ambiance of his DVD store’s...
BEIRUT: Descending into the National Museum’s basement, one is instantly struck by the dimness, the low ceiling and the large empty space – a...
BEIRUT: Gemmayzeh’s main street is littered with an ever-changing roster of pubs, shops and restaurants, but Thursday morning witnessed the opening of a...
BEIRUT: Participants were divided over the legitimacy of Hezbollah’s arms during a conference discussing the Bkirki National Charter Monday, as others...