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Lynn Sheikh Moussa

Bourj Hammoud Municipality launches new aid hotline for residents

The accessible new hotline helps residents of Bourj Hammoud with COVID-19 information, Beirut blast repairs, and disability services.
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1841 Rochfort Scott map showing Beirut and the lazzaretto, where travellers would quarantine prior to entering the city. (
Mohamad El Chamaa

Beirut’s forgotten medical history: Quarantining before COVID-19

Almost a hundred years ago, the quarantine process for travelers arriving to Lebanon was more elaborate and centralized.
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Collage of sexual health products as parts of trees, and with a yellow condom as a sun, against a pale pink background. Mauj article.
Lynn Sheikh Moussa

Mauj: Destigmatizing sexual health in the Arab World

Nearly two years ago, two Arab women with a shared interest in sexual and reproductive health were brought together in a meeting with a mutual friend. Several discussions later, Mauj was born in September 2020. Beirut Today sat down with the founders of the sexual and reproductive wellness platform to...
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Hassan Al Horr

Beirut Brief: News from Mar. 29 – Apr. 4

This week, Finance Minister Ghazi Wazni said Lebanon will run out of funds to subsidise imported goods in late May.
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Michael Avanzato

America is Back (in the Middle East): The Biden Doctrine

Avoiding the pitfalls and bravado of the Trump Administration, Biden has quietly reasserted American imperial power across the globe.
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Kristin Azar

Fetishizing foreign women: A run-in with Lebanese military

Today was different. Today, the sexual harassment was beyond intolerable because it came from men in the Lebanese military.
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Hanin Haidar Ahmad

Ask Away: Dr. Mohamad Faour on the Lebanese economic collapse

Laudy Issa

Introducing Animal Encounter, the center conserving and rehabilitating Lebanese wildlife

Since 1993, Animal Encounter has focused on rescuing and rehabilitating Lebanese wildlife –and countering the public's negative stereotypes.
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Hassan Al Horr

Beirut Brief: News from Mar. 22 – Mar. 28

This week, four Syrian refugees died from the “bitter cold,” a World Bank assessment found that Lebanon has the highest food prices in the MENA region, and more.
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Lynn Sheikh Moussa

Acute food insecurity to rise in Lebanon, warn WFP and FAO

More than 34 million people across the world are already struggling with emergency levels of acute hunger.
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Lynn Sheikh Moussa

Lebanese healthcare system continues to struggle as more vaccines arrive

The health sector in Lebanon is under severe strain, with COVID-19 cases still on the rise and the country exiting full lockdown earlier this week.
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Abdullah Malaeb

Subsidized medicine is vanishing and being smuggled out of Lebanon

Lebanon is facing a historic economic and financial crisis, alongside a pandemic, that has devaluated the local currency.  Purchasing power has dropped amid high rates of hyperinflation, with pharmaceutical companies storing subsidized medicine, citizens stockpiling drugs and others smuggling it outside of the country. Simultaneously, medicine is vanishing from pharmacies...
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