The Beirut Municipality closed the capital’s public parks during the first COVID-19 lockdown, back in early 2020.
“I regret the day I was born Lebanese,” Ahmad, a taxi driver, told Beirut Today. “All I can think of is how to leave."
Salameh is undergoing investigation by authorities in Lebanon and four other European countries.
Like the rest of the world, Lebanon was hit with a large wave of the Omicron coronavirus variant over the holidays.
The Cabinet has not met since Oct. 12 because of a boycott by Hezbollah and the Amal Movement over the Beirut blast investigator.
Prime Minister Najib Mikati said a comment made by Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah about Saudi Arabia “does not represent the position of the Lebanese government or the broader Lebanese population.” Speaking on the second anniversary of the killing of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani by a US drone strike in Baghdad,...
This past year has once again seen Lebanon battling tooth and nail to stay afloat in a sea of challenges and conflicts that marked 2021.
This comes as part of a long history of authoritarian regimes in Egypt silencing, persecuting, and jailing dissidents
Between a self-preserving syndicate that represents the political parties in power and a change-seeking alternative that emerged with the October 17 revolution in 2019, the ongoing journalistic dispute in Lebanon stands in place as a microcosm of the country’s political conflict. The Lebanese Press Editors’ Syndicate turned to the judiciary...
At the start of his three-day visit, the UN Secretary-General urged Lebanon’s politicians to work together to resolve the deep crisis.
Judge Tarek Bitar had issued the warrant on October 12 after Khalil failed to attend a scheduled interrogation.
The Directorate of General Security first confiscated the social media comedian’s passport upon his arrival to Beirut late on Monday.