Month: July 2021

Lebanon has long boasted a reputation for some of the most prestigious academic institutions in the Middle East, training top medics, architects and engineers who have gone on to enjoy … Read More

In Lebanon today, the new fad is Currency Board. Its proponents claim that this panacea would have avoided our present ills, would establish a discipline that roots out corruption, would … Read More

The current group show at Marfa’, its first collaboration with Galleries Curate, makes use of the fluid in a dizzying array of ways

The Lebanese pound fell further Wednesday, hitting a new record low of LL19,550 to the dollar on the black market, amid expectations Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri was set to step … Read More

The United Arab Emirates opened an embassy in Israel Wednesday, housed in Tel Aviv’s new stock exchange building, in the latest normalisation move under a deal brokered by Washington last … Read More

Carrying mock coffins, relatives of those killed in Lebanon’s port blast scuffled with police Tuesday outside the residence of caretaker interior minister Mohammad Fahmi whom they accuse of stalling a … Read More

Thousands of Palestinians marched through Ramallah Tuesday to bury rights activist Suha Jarrar, 31, as Israel refused to release her mother, lawmaker Khalida Jarrar, from prison for the funeral.

Carrying mock coffins, relatives of those killed in Lebanon’s port blast scuffled with police Tuesday outside the residence of caretaker interior minister Mohammad Fahmi whom they accuse of stalling a … Read More

The families of vulnerable children in Lebanon have started receiving UNICEF cash handouts in U.S. dollars as the U.N. children’s fund seeks to put a stop to hefty losses in … Read More