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A Lebanese policeman stands guard next to a bank window that was broken by depositors to exit the bank after attacking it trying to get their money, in Beirut, Lebanon
Economics
‘We are forced to be bank robbers,’ desperate Lebanese citizens say amid financial crisis
Views from the Cedars of God, a 25-acre forest preserve just six miles from the monastery. Situated in the Kadisha Valley, the site represents one of the last remaining pieces of old growth cedar forest in the country. Some of the trees are believed to be
Climate Change
These monks are on a mission to protect Lebanon’s sacred cedar trees — before it’s too late
view of the city
Energy
Solar power is the ‘only business that’s booming’ amid financial and electricity crises in Lebanon, experts say
Lawyer and activist Hussein El Achi helped found a group called Minteshreen that wants an end to Lebanon’s sectarian political system.
Conflict & Justice
These activists want to end sectarian politics in Lebanon
Diala Attieh Younes, 39, washes dishes under candlelight in her kitchen in Beirut. She said her generator-supplied electricity bill has increased six folds since last year.
Lebanon’s electricity crisis means life under candlelight for some, profits for others
Wide shot of Lebanese parliament
Finance
Lebanon’s political class ‘ripped off’ the country’s potential, ‘Pandora’ investigator says
In a church about a mile from Beirut’s port, Sunday mass occurs with just a few dozen worshipers in the massive hall.
Conflict & Justice
Beirut blast one year later: No justice, no hope
Lebanese army soldiers deploy on Lebanon's side of the Lebanese-Israeli border in the southern village of Kfar Kila
Military
Lebanon’s financial crisis is so bad that soldiers can’t feed their families
Three women health care workers in uniform, wearing headscarves and masks, stand and listen among a crowd of medical workers.
Business, Economics and Jobs
‘Sometimes I feel like I betrayed my country’: Lebanon’s doctors are leaving in droves
Syrian boy looks through window at refugee camp with plants placed in yellow and white cans attached
Syrians on the border
Syrian children in Lebanon are ‘being robbed of their futures’
Protesters
Report: Lebanese security used French-made equipment during protests
A banner with representations of the Lebanese flag hangs on a damaged building in a neighborhood near the site of the explosion
Music
Musicians across the world sing tributes to Beirut
A man dressed in white stands by the closed door of an airplane.
Historic flight between Israel and the UAE lands in Abu Dhabi
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Several African women sit in a room with light blue walls, next to luggage and personal belongings.
Migrant workers stuck in Beirut in wake of blast
A woman stands inside a damaged interior with blue painted walls underneath an arch and art hung loosely on the walls.
‘Our house is your house’: Locals open their homes after Beirut blast
Where the United States Postal Service Stands on Mail-In Ballots Come November 2020-08-05
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Protesters around a flower wreath
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Three people wear face masks with soldiers standing behind them
COVID-19
Some Americans feel safer in Lebanon when it comes to COVID-19 response
A birds-eye-view of protests in Lebanon.
How Lebanon’s ‘WhatsApp tax’ unleashed a flood of anger
Firas Yordi, a Venezuelan of Lebanese descent, in front of his new restaurant in Beirut. He returned to his parents' homeland last year amidst Venezuela's financial crisis.
Migration
Venezuelans with Lebanese roots bring Latin flavors to the Beirut food scene
A boy in a blur running.
Arts, Culture & Media
From Syrian refugee to Oscar nominee, ‘Capernaum’ star gets second chance at childhood in Norway
Crowded homes and buildings stacked on a hill.
Immigration
‘We were born refugees’ — Lebanon’s forgotten refugee camp
Arts, Culture & Media
Caramel
Director Ziad Doueiri poses during a photocall for the movie "The Insult," at the 74th Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy on August 31, 2017. The film won Best Actor for Kamal el-Basha’s role. When he returned to Lebanon, Doueiri was detained by author
Arts
This Lebanese filmmaker is getting global acclaim, but back home he got arrested
Cars pass next to a poster depicting Saad Hariri, who has resigned as Lebanon's prime minister, in Beirut
Global Politics
Lebanon wants to know: Is our prime minister a prisoner?
Global Politics
Watch live: Trump hosts Lebanese prime minister at White House
ABAAD
Global Politics
Lebanese women fight to overturn law that protects rapists
Abu Radwan and his family converted to Christianity after they fled Syria to Lebanon. He says it's a genuine conversion, though he does say he thinks it might help him get resettled in the West.
Conflict
Why some Muslim Syrian refugees are converting to Christianity
The Friends of Donald Trump in Lebanon Facebook page gets comments, such as: "Go Mr. President God bless you" and "We need someone like you [in Lebanon] to clean up our country."
Global Politics
Trump fans in Lebanon want to ‘make the Middle East great again’
A Syrian refugee woman, who is stuck between the Jordanian and Syrian borders, holds her child near the town of Ruwaished, in the Hadalat area, east of the capital Amman, May 4, 2016.
Conflict
What 2017 could bring for millions of displaced Syrians
Garbage piles up in a riverbed near Beirut in late 2015. The region's almost year-long trash crisis prompted a political crisis, but also the emergence of nascent recycling programs.
Environment
Never waste a good waste crisis: Beirut’s trash woes give birth to recycling
Ghaith is a Syrian refugee living in Beirut. He can't work there but now he can earn a living as an online Arabic teacher.
Education
This startup helps Syrian refugees earn a living. All they need is a laptop.
Jihad Al-Mohammed in his home in Saida. When he moved in, the centuries-old building was abandoned, but it used to be a Jewish synagogue.
Belief
It took this man 10 years to realize he was living in a synagogue
Amira, who married at 16, says she faced severe abuse at the hands of her husband and found it difficult to escape.
Justice
The refugee crisis is turning more girls into child brides
Samia Abdullah holds up a picture of her brother Emad who disappeared in 1984 when he was 20 years old. His family thinks he's still alive in a Syrian prison.
Conflict
‘I just want one hair, one bone to bury, and I will be fine’
Hiba Bekai's office is her home, where she sews and does other needle work that she sells to Syrians and Lebanese.
Conflict
This Syrian woman never had a paying job at home. Now she’s started a business in Lebanon.
Ali Nasri Shamas holds a Kalashnikov assault rifle outside his hashish factory in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. Shamas says the region's hash growers are ready to turn their weapons against any Islamic militants crossing the border from Syria.
Conflict
Lebanon’s drug lords say they’re ready to join the fight against ISIS
A Syrian girl covers herself with a blanket at a refugee settlement in Bar Elias in Lebanon.
Conflict
Sorry, we’re full — Lebanon ends its open border policy for Syrian refugees
Noor
Conflict
Young Lebanese activist joins us on Facebook
Fresh martyr portraits painted on a side street in Tripoli's Bab al-Tabbaneh neighborhood. Clashes last month in the economically deprived neighborhood left at least 11 soldiers, 8 civilians and 22 militants dead.
Conflict
Healing this neighborhood would go a long way toward ending the insurgency
Global Politics
This Syrian girl’s exile has stretched from weeks to years
Conflict & Justice
Hezbollah chooses Lebanon’s new Prime Minister
Global Politics
Lebanon’s government collapses
Lifestyle & Belief
Versatile Lebanese Hip-Hop duo Ashekman Build an Empire through Hard Work
The Power of Art in a Changing Middle East
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A Beirut artist participates in an event staged by a municipality controlled by Hezbollah to honor those killed in a wave of car bombings in Lebanon.
Conflict & Justice
Hezbollah claims to be fighting in Syria to protect Lebanon. But the result is violence in Lebanon
Ya Nass
Ya Nass
Hip Deep Lebanon Video: Yasmine Hamdan Interviewed
Hip Deep Lebanon Video: Yasmine Hamdan Interviewed
Degheri coFounder Matt Saunders sits with the team's "Cargo Bike" outside a shopping district in downtown Beirut, Degheri messengers are trying to attract clients by offering to bike their groceries home for them.
Business, Economics and Jobs
For a bike messenger, Beirut may be the worst city ever
A Lebanese family watches TV fortune teller Mike Feghaly give his predictions for 2014
Lifestyle & Belief
People in Lebanon love New Year predictions — the more outlandish the better
Beirut residents light a lantern during New Year's celebrations at Star Square
Conflict & Justice
Syria’s war is testing the limits of tolerance in neighboring Lebanon
A panel from Andy Warner's "The Displaced."
Conflict & Justice
A Bay Area journalist draws cartoons to wake the world to the Syrian crisis
Conflict & Justice
Lebanon on Edge as Airstrikes Against Syria Appear Imminent
Global Politics
Influx of Syrian refugees causing fresh tension in Lebanon
Saving Lebanon’s cedars
Arts, Culture & Media
Angelique Kidjo and the mystery of a folk song
Arts, Culture & Media
Lebanon bans “Waltz with Bashir”
Conflict & Justice
Influx of Syrian Refugees Causing Tension in Lebanon Prompting New Curfews