During the hey-day of the Phoenician civilization, the trading post of ancient Serepta would have had a thriving artisan community with glass makers, potters and timber merchant selling their wares to sea-farers. Today Serepta is better known as Sarafand - a sleepy run-down village in southern Lebanon with pot-holed roads where no one seems to loiter too long.Full Story
The head of a leading Lebanese social justice organization on Friday lamented the absence from the Ministerial Statement any efforts toward reforming the country's sexist nationality law. Lina Abou-Habib, executive director of the Collective for Research, Training and Development-Action, said Interior Minister Ziyad Baroud relayed to the organization his disappointment that out of 30 ministers.Full Story
In a video recording Grace Jalkh, 40, admitted to having poisoned herself and her three daughters because her husband was always away and allegedly cheating on her, a well-informed security source told The Daily Star on Friday. Jalkh and her three daughters Melissa 13, Madison 10, and Alfreda 7, were all found dead at their home in the Metn town of Bhersaf on Thursday.Full Story
Lebanon may see parts of its coastline vanish if climate change continues unabated, according to a landmark report on the evolving environment of the Arab world. The Impact of Climate Change on Arab Countries - a document assembled by the Arab Forum for Environment and Development - warns that an increase in global temperature of just a single degree "would directly impact 41,500 square-kilometers of the Arab coastal lands." Full Story
Palestinian children in the camps of Lebanon are losing faith in the value of an education, with record numbers leaving school to work. "We are facing a big problem here," said Ray Virgilio Torres, the head of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) in Lebanon. "There seems to be a growing number of children in the camps that do not think.Full Story
Movement (FPM)-Marada alliance, by securing 29 out of 33 seats reserved for the student committees at the Notre Dame University (NDU) elections on Friday. Similarly to every other university in the country, the NDU elections often mirror the sectarian power struggles in society.Full Story
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