BEIRUT: The dining scene in Beirut can be a bit monotonous – how many more sushi restaurants and hipster burger diners can this city support? So those...
QALAWAI, Lebanon: Most stories about 100-year-olds focus on their secret to a long life: the morning swims in ice cold lakes, the fresh mountain air, the...
BEIRUT: The recent warnings by the U.S. Embassy for American citizens to avoid Western-style areas in Beirut due to a sudden rise in car bombings have...
BEIRUT: “Refuse to live in fear. Refuse to live a life where you may die a martyr. Refuse to live in violence. Add #notamartyr to ur tweets...
BEIRUT: Joanna Nachef is straightforward about it. If she had stayed in Lebanon, she would never have become the Middle East’s first female conductor....
CHTAURA/BAALBEK, Lebanon: With the Lebanese system overwhelmed and aid agencies having to think outside the box to ensure hundreds of thousands of Syrian...
BEIRUT: As aching limbs and joints all over Lebanon return to normal, the euphoria of Sunday’s Beirut Marathon is slowly fading away. For those who took part...
BEIRUT: “Has anyone in Lebanon used kale or seen it in restaurants?” The callout on Facebook got a resoundingly negative response. “There is no kale here,”...
TRIPOLI, Lebanon: Optimists can be hard to come by in Tripoli. Neglected and impoverished, Lebanon’s northern capital has been the site where Syria’s conflict...
MOSCOW: Russia’s capital city is big, much bigger than it looks on a map. Its enormous 10-lane roads and towering buildings are enough to inspire awe in...
BEIRUT: I’m alone in a small, steamy room. It’s technically a hammam, but there are none of the usual trappings of the ancient Middle Eastern...
BEIRUT: For most 5-year-olds, life is about school, playing in the dirt and tricking adults into letting you stay up later than you should. For Toby Little,...
BEIRUT: There is no surer way to start an argument with someone than by suggesting you know how to cook their local dish better than they do. Across the...
HAZMIEH, Lebanon: Eight days before Christmas in 1984, in the midst of the Civil War, the underground bowling alley in Hazmieh finally opened its doors to the...
BEIRUT: The rise of the amateur food photographer has been unstoppable. Facebook these days is a minefield of baby snaps and arty shots of people’s...
BEIRUT: It could be a story like any other in Beirut: A building gets torn down to make way for new apartment block, history is lost in the process. Yet...
BEIRUT: Did you hear about the British couple who got married and decided to do a charity cycle around Lebanon for their honeymoon? “I think initially...
TRIPOLI, Lebanon: “Last night we couldn’t sleep at all, it was very difficult,” said Heba Rachrach of the Tripoli clashes as she walked on Thursday around the...
BEIRUT: Joe Sacco is in no mood to mess around. “I can’t pretend I am ‘objective’ about certain topics,” he says. “In some...
BEIRUT: “I thought there’d be tons of guys shooting at each other everywhere,” remarks Sylvain, a spindly Frenchman whose cigarette smoke...
BEIRUT: As reports mount of grave incidents of sexual violence against both men and women in the Syrian civil war, human rights groups and United Nations...
TYRE, Lebanon: “The story behind this place is the story of my childhood. I love this place,” says Mona Khalil, a small woman with cropped,...
BEIRUT: Lebanon should not be made to struggle with the refugee crisis on its own, UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Mia Farrow said, as the U.N. agency warned that...
BEIRUT: UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Mia Farrow has called for an increase in global humanitarian assistance for Syrian refugees while acknowledging the efforts...
LONDON: Harrowing first-person accounts of life and violent death from Syrians during their 16-month-old uprising provide the dialogue for a new play, which...