BEIRUT: Sitting in her boutique, Cynthia Chamat Debbane reflects on her career as a designer and on society’s addiction to instant gratification and...
BEIRUT: In Lebanon, civil society groups have long protested the government’s decision to implement a waste-to-energy plant in order to mitigate the...
BEIRUT: Are the four Hezbollah-affiliated individuals accused of assassinating former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri guilty?Fourteen years after the bombing that...
BEIRUT: On a Thursday afternoon in August, 21-year-old Jana Kobeissi, a fresh graduate of the American University of Beirut, is still on campus, running to...
BEIRUT: Few people can stand the stench of garbage, much less think twice about its impact on the world, but for 23-year-old Salua Moussawel, garbage is her...
BEIRUT: As the Beirut Municipality moves forward with plans to install incinerators, residents and civil society push back, remaining steadfast in voicing...
BEIRUT/TYRE: How severe is Lebanon’s coastline pollution? The answer remains unclear, and with differing reports coming from local research centers,...
BEIRUT: After a recent lack of updates regarding incinerators, representatives of the municipality of Beirut have confirmed that plans to introduce...
BEIRUT: As Lebanon’s dysfunctional waste-management plan unravels at already gaping seams, the United Nations Development Program and the European Union...
BEIRUT: Despite a legal decision to stop the expansion of the Costa Brava landfill south of Rafik Hariri International Airport, workers were seen Thursday...
BEIRUT: In the Babylonian epic of Gilgamesh, the protagonist, a Sumerian king, journeys to Mount Lebanon, deforests its famed cedar trees and beheads the...
BEIRUT: The controversial Costa Brava landfill will not be expanded for now after a judge’s decision Tuesday ordering work to stop pending a report into its...
BEIRUT: Construction of Metn’s Beqaatet Kanaan dam southwest of Faqra has resulted in the complete burial of a northern section of the Nahr al-Kalb...
BEIRUT: Starting in 2019, the Jbeil municipality will ban all use of plastic bags – a bold initiative to address the country’s addiction to...
BEIRUT: When Energy and Water Minister Cesar Abi Khalil signed the contract February to construct the country’s first wind farm in north Lebanon’s...
BEIRUT: Over two years since the European Union-funded SWIM and Horizon 2020 initiative began, stakeholders and project leaders convened in Beirut Thursday to...
BEIRUT: After submitting responses to impact reports Wednesday on the contested expansion of south Beirut’s Costa Brava landfill, civil society group...
BEIRUT: Racial discrimination against 21-month-old Rizk Kijjo by a Kesrouan nursery shocked the Lebanese public, provoking soul-searching about how a toddler...
BEIRUT: Defense counsel David Young grilled former Special Tribunal for Lebanon investigator Michael Taylor Tuesday on decisions not to further look into...
BEIRUT: The former head of investigations of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon testified Monday that Hezbollah orchestrated the assassination of former Prime...
BEIRUT: As Lebanon heads into the hot summer months, residents and tourists are flocking to the Mediterranean Sea – only to swim in water contaminated...
BEIRUT: President Michel Aoun’s controversial naturalization decree, which is set to grant Lebanese citizenship to over 400 foreign nationals, has...
BEIRUT: Child rearing without the use of violence is more effective for the household, community and country, the United Nations Children’s Fund said...
BEIRUT: Former Director of General Security Jamil al-Sayyed concluded three days of testimony for the defense Thursday at the Special Tribunal for Lebanon,...
BEIRUT: Last week, the most popular thread on Lebanon’s subreddit (r/Lebanon) was started by an unlikely person determined to spark a conversation on an...