Lebanon News » Beirut News Lebanon » Beirut » Life: Beirut Book Fair offers a cultural lifeline amid war, crisis
The Beirut Arab International Book Fair, which made an unexpected comeback this year and attracted a record number of visitors but fewer vendors.
News Lebanon » Beirut » Life: 43 years after Beirut terror attack killed 241 Americans, rabbi recalls chaplains’ extraordinary response
On the 43rd anniversary of the Beirut barracks terror attack that killed 241 Americans, a rabbi recalls how he and two Christian chaplains rushed to aid the wounded and comfort the survivors.
News Lebanon » Beirut » Life: Camp Lejeune honors fallen service members during annual Beirut Memorial Observance
Military and community leaders gathered Friday, Oct. 23, at the Beirut Memorial in Lejeune Memorial Gardens to honor service members who served and died in Leba ...
News Lebanon » Beirut » Life: 'Beirut Fragments' captures the horror Israel keeps inflicting on Lebanon
Jean Said Makdisi's reissued memoir recounts bombardment, siege and civilian resistance in scenes painfully familiar from Gaza and Israel's renewed assault on Lebanon ...
News Lebanon » Beirut » Life: Lebanon: Support Justice for Beirut Blast Victims, Families
(Beirut) – Lebanon’s new government should take all necessary measures to strengthen judicial independence and ensure that the investigation into the August 2020 Beirut port explosion can proceed ...
News Lebanon » Beirut » Life: Hundreds suffer eye injuries from Beirut blast
Last month’s #Beirut port explosion followed months of protests over Lebanon's plummeting economy, made worse by the COVID-19 #pandemic. Doctors now warn they desperately need medical equipment to ...
News Lebanon » Beirut » Life: Beirut’s largest park transformed into a symbol of inclusion, sustainability and community life in Lebanon
Beirut, Lebanon- (ILO News) – The newly constructed/rehabilitated sections of Horsh Beirut, the Lebanese capital’s largest green space, was inaugurated today ...
News Lebanon » Beirut » Life: Lebanese displaced by war fill Beirut’s streets, upending city life
BEIRUT — Beirut is bursting. It’s been a month since Hezbollah fired rockets into Israel after the U.S.-Israeli attack on its patron, Iran, triggering Israeli bombardment of Lebanon and a ground ...
News Lebanon » Beirut » Life: Hezbollah warns Lebanon 'will have no life' if state moves against it
BEIRUT (Reuters) -Hezbollah raised the spectre of civil war with a warning on Friday there would be "no life" in Lebanon if the government sought to confront or eliminate the Iran-backed group. The ...
News Lebanon » Beirut » Life: Israel-Lebanon agreement shines light on long-lost Jewish community
The once-thriving Lebanese Jewish community has been largely forgotten in the decades since most of them left the country. But the latest Israel-Hezbollah war — which pushed Lebanon and Israel into ...
News Lebanon » Beirut » Life: In Lebanon, basketball becomes a temporary escape from war
Basketball in Lebanon has become an important distraction, offering a temporary escape from war, financial hardship and the deep traumas.
News Lebanon » Beirut » Life: Lebanese displaced by war fill Beirut’s streets, upending city life
BEIRUT (AP) — Beirut is bursting. Macron slams as ‘stupid’ claims by Trump and others blaming Muslim migrants for French riots US orders some diplomats to leave Saudi Arabia as fears of escalating ...