Lebanon has become a failed state in recent years. It is in a continuous political paralysis that prevents the formation of a functioning government and this reality has contributed to the deterioration of the country into a severe economic crisis...
Just days before the two-year anniversary of the 4 August 2020 Beirut Port explosion, a part of the burnt-out hulk of the nation’s grain silos destroyed in the blast, collapsed. For weeks, a fire had been smouldering in the silos...
Why Lebanon? Some years ago the distinguished historian Jonathan Steinberg wrote a book entitled Why Switzerland? And a similar question can be posed for Lebanon which, like Switzerland, is host to several different communities. In the Lebanese case we need...
As Lebanon entered 2020, the centennial of its establishment by France, the country was entitled to ask whether its 100th birthday would be among its last. In November of the previous year, the economy had collapsed, the result of an...
Immense banana plantations stretch away for miles. The yellow clusters overlook the Mediterranean in a land that is a limbo. Between stretches of rock and what remains of the Mediterranean scrub, sumptuous villas emerge sporadically. Here in southern Lebanon, the...
This reportage is among the winners of the Newsroom Academy course held by Daniele Bellocchio. When you enter an art exhibition, you expect to discover imagery and paintings about ancient times, a past era. The painting ‘Mary Maddalena’ by Artemisia...
To get to the center of Beirut from the airport – first you must travel through a black hole. The main road that connects the airport to Lebanon’s capital is completely dark. The only light comes seconds at a time,...
Beirut, 25 September 2020. I’m having a coffee at the entrance to the highway which runs alongside the port: the waitress is gracious and thanks God she was not working that day. She refers to that day, without specifying. There...
As Lebanon’s Prime Minister-in-waiting Mustafa Adib missed the September 15 deadline set by French President Emmanuel Macron for the formation of a new Lebanese cabinet, President Michael Aoun has warned of a “hell-like” situation that awaits Lebanon unless a government...
The political crisis crippling Lebanon shows no sign of ending as the country’s politicians failed to form a new government before the deadline agreed with French President Emmanuel Macron. Failure to Agree on a New Cabinet Lebanese President Michel Aoun...
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