BEIRUT: The courtyard of the U.N.-run Yarmouk primary school in Burj al-Barajneh was packed, not with students blithely running in between classes, but with...
BEIRUT: In the face of sprawling hypermarket stores like Spinneys, and the French chain Carrefour recently established at the City Centre mall, there are only...
BEIRUT: Summer camps are not just a vacation for children, often they are a chance for kids to explore a world outside their contained neighborhoods, and in...
BEIRUT: Expecting an immense rise in the number of Palestinians fleeing from neighboring Syria, the U.N. Relief and Works Agency is bracing for the next six...
BEIRUT: When Mohammad, a Sudanese refugee, learned last week that his resettlement application had been cleared by UNHCR, he, along with his wife Gigi, a...
BEIRUT: The Association of Owners of Recruitment Agencies in Lebanon has adopted a self-regulating code of conduct in a bid to protect the rights of migrant...
BEIRUT: The grandiose hallways of Baabda Palace resounded this weekend, not with the usual measured tones of diplomats and heads of states, but with...
BEIRUT: A sure sign that summer is upon us is the sight of avid beach-goers flocking to the coast with an arsenal of tanning oils, moisturizers, bronzers and...
BEIRUT: As it opens, the stage design of “Alone,” the latest theater play of Lebanese-Canadian playwright Wajdi Mouawad, is rather dull. Downstage...
BEIRUT: An online video on the Nawaya Network’s recently launched social networking site introduces new users to Karen, a 16-year-old who dreams of...
BEIRUT: The sounds of children playing reverberated from almost every room at Sesobel, a school for children with disabilities. At one point, a 13-year-old...
BEIRUT: It’s the month of May and Beirut’s waterfront is suddenly a site where bare legs and arms emerge after their winter hibernation. Hundreds...
BEIRUT: When it came to sending her two kids to school, the odds were against Mahboube. After her diabetic husband, the sole breadwinner in the family, was...
BEIRUT: You have to find the newly painted brick building at the end of Ibrahim alAhdab alleyway, the one with municipal plate “46” affixed. You...
BEIRUT: As disagreements abound over a much-anticipated draft media law still under review by Parliament’s Media and Telecommunications Committee, the...
BEIRUT: A pregnant girl dead set in her ways, a young man who leaves home, a woman who decides to take a job that will surely lead nowhere: these are the...
BEIRUT: AMAR International, a U.K.-based charity, relaunched its activities last March in Lebanon with a drug awareness campaign featuring a series of...
BEIRUT: In the month of April Maurice Habib’s apiaries are in a frantic state, their busy bees toil away incessantly, pollinating flowers, gathering...
BEIRUT: From the shore, the site of Lebanon’s potential maritime oil and gas reserve appears a vast expanse of blue sea. But well below the surface...
BEIRUT: The walk down Damascus Road to Downtown can be disorienting for pedestrians forced to navigate narrow, broken sidewalks and distracted by the...
BEIRUT: The opening of City Centre Beirut brings with it approximately 50 new retail outlets, from bustling burger joints exported from New York City to...
BEIRUT: Relations between couples, both behind closed doors and in the public eye, is the central theme of Nadine Mokdessi’s crowd-pleasing production...
BEIRUT: At first glance, the sandy exterior of the International College’s new elementary school in Hamra embodies notions of simplicity and...
BEIRUT: Though the stage was set with two chairs and a platter of strawberries, Peter Sellars’ lecture at the French Institute Saturday did not make use...
BEIRUT: Medical and social centers have long catered to the needs of the socially isolated elderly, most of whom have no contact with relatives. At times the...