A Palestinian family refuses to leave their ramshackle home in the Mieh we Mieh Palestinian refugee camp, notwithstanding warnings from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) and other local authorities. "They ask us to abandon our home without providing us with an alternative," the house's owner Najwa Kaouch told The Daily Star.|Full Story
"She is the most courageous driver," and "there is not any difference between her and male drivers," is how people have described Wafaa Othman, the first female driving tutor in Beirut. "I don't know why women are accused of being ignorant of traffic laws and weak in driving their vehicles," Othman, who has been a driving instructor for 25 years, told The Daily Star on Thursday.|Full Story
Using rudimentary equipment, the Lebanese Army attemped to extinguish a fire which had erupted again in one of the forests surrounding the mountain town of Jezzine in the South on Wednesday. Lebanese Army helicopters have been busy extinguishing blazes which raged across Lebanon since the start of the week.|Full Story
Handicap International (HI), with the support of the Humanitarian Aid Department of the European Commission, organized an awareness-raising day for the protection of children against abuse on Friday at the Forum de Beyrouth. The event wrapped up the awareness-raising campaigns HI has initiated in five Palestinian camps in Lebanon.|Full Story
Some 400 fishermen in Sidon have recently acquired new equipment that makes it easier for them to locate schools of fish in the Mediterranean Sea. Some have outfitted their fishing boats with Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers, while others are using sonar scanning devices.|Full Story
"Nothing tastes better then homemade tomato sauce" is a common refrain in Chouf villages where residents have begun to prepare stocks of the versatile condiment for the winter months. Every year, at the beginning of the fall season, storing, preparing and preserving stocks of food becomes the chief activity in many mountain homes. |Full Story
Adnan Saad, known as Abu Jihad, broke the mold when he decided to carve his own statue in front of his home in the Siniq area south of Sidon. He believes the human figure itself can symbolize personality better than anything else, he said. "Carving a statue of myself is not a sign of self-glorification or what is know as narcissism," Abu Jihad told The Daily Star. |Full Story
