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THE NEW STATESMAN/9.20.24 — Scenes like those out of a horror film unfolded in Lebanon this week. Randa Najdi, a 35-year-old Arabic teacher, was meandering through a crowded market in southern Beirut...
9.18.24 — Patients screamed in pain and paramedic teams shouted frantic orders to attend to gaping wounds at Beirut’s Hotel Dieu hospital on Tuesday afternoon, after thousands of handheld pagers...
AL MONITOR/9.14.24 — Portraits of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat adorn the walls of Al-Hamshari Hospital in the southern Lebanese city of Sidon, and a large floor-mounted map of the Palestinian...
THE NEW STATESMAN/8.1.24 — As the sun dipped below the horizon on the evening of 30 July, an explosion thundered across the Lebanese capital, Beirut. Within seconds a plume of smoke rose above the...
SYRIA DIRECT/7.9.24—Stacks of books line every corner of the small home office in Beirut where Mutasim Khalaf spends his days writing. A poster of the Palestinian novelist Ghassan Kanafani adorns one...
SYRIA DIRECT/5.22.24 — A billion-euro European Union (EU) aid package to Lebanon, in part aimed at stemming irregular migration, gave a green light for an “unprecedented” crackdown on Syrian refugees...
SYRIA DIRECT/5.14.24 — “We’re not happy here. The government and the people hate us,” 35-year-old Basil Hussein al-Batoush told Syria Direct at his apartment in Lebanon’s coastal city of Jounieh. The...
INKSTICK MEDIA/5.7.24 — On Tuesday, April 16, five small fishing boats carrying nearly 500 Syrian refugees set off from Lebanese shores and approached Cyprus. Before they could make it to the island...
AL MONITOR/5.5.2024 — Over a cup of Arabic coffee in his one-room Beirut apartment, 31-year-old Ahmad al-Izzo said it has become “impossible” for Syrians to live in Lebanon...