Christiane Tager, 10:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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There was a time when fuel prices were the main concern. Today, it’s the cost of food that’s raising eyebrows. What ends up on our plates is no longer determined solely by supply, demand or inflation. Temperature has become a key factor. Behind the sharp rise in food prices, a quieter but increasingly decisive force has emerged: climate ...
Makram Haddad, 09:40 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
From August 5 to 17 in Jeddah, the Lebanese national team will try to move past recent tensions and misfortunes. Arakji is back, but might miss the first two games. Can El Darwich lead the team? And what is a promise worth if it’s forced, Jamaleddine? A Ruthless Format The stage is set. Sixteen nations, four groups, one coveted trophy: the ...
Hussain Abdul-Hussain, 09:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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It took Lebanon’s cabinet six months to even begin discussing the fate of Hezbollah’s arsenal. Whatever decision emerges will go to the Higher Defense Council for further deliberation and planning, then to the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) to devise an implementation strategy. If each step takes as long as the first, disarming Hezbollah could be ...
This is Beirut, 04/08 21:50 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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William Noun, brother of firefighter and August 4 victim Joe Noun, was assaulted on Monday following a gathering commemorating the fifth anniversary of the Beirut port explosion. A video circulating on social media showed an armed individual confronting and attacking Noun shortly after the memorial. The assailant was later arrested, along with ...
Vanessa Kallas, 04/08 21:20 - Reading : less than a minute
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Five years since the Beirut Port explosion, Lebanon bows its head in grief, remembrance and continued calls for justice. From wreaths and masses to messages from global leaders, here’s how the country honored the victims of August 4.
This is Beirut, 04/08 16:55 - Reading : less than a minute
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A Hezbollah member was reportedly killed and four injured, on Monday, in an Israeli drone strike that targeted the Old Slaughterhouse neighborhood on the eastern outskirts of Khiam, according to Al-Arabiya television. Hezbollah officially mourned Ali Suleiman Abu Abbas, who was killed in the town of Khiam. The strike came after a relatively ...
Moncef Ait-Kaci, 04/08 15:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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That day began like any other. Sam, a young bartender then working in Hamra, was already on shift, and the restaurant was packed. “I was preparing orders when I felt the ground shaking. A massive jolt. They say there were two explosions, but I only heard one. A sound unlike anything I’d ever heard.” Jacques, architect, was sitting down to ...
This is Beirut, 04/08 14:52 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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On the fifth anniversary of the devastating Beirut Port explosion, which killed over 200 people and injured thousands, officials and institutions have renewed their calls for justice and remembrance, while tributes were held across the country. Interior Minister Ahmad Hajjar visited the Beirut Fire Brigade headquarters, where he laid a wreath at ...
Fady Noun, 04/08 14:15 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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“Beloved and suffering Lebanon” was the heartfelt theme of a prayer vigil held Sunday evening in the outdoor courtyard of Our Lady of Deliverance Church, in Beirut’s Karantina district near the port. The ceremony, attended by Apostolic Nuncio Archbishop Paolo Borgia, featured a candlelit procession and the blessing of the 75 olive trees - ...
Lyne Sammouri, 04/08 11:30 - Reading : less than a minute
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For the fifth anniversary of the Beirut port explosion, residents reflect on the day that reshaped their lives and a memory that still demands justice.
Charles Chartouni, 04/08 09:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
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American political scientists in the sixties were quite pessimistic when analyzing the cascading political crises befalling Lebanon since the late fifties. Leila Meo used the label of “improbable nation” (1963), and Michael Hudson characterized it as a “precarious republic" (1965). This sense of instability prompted numerous scholars to ...
Natasha Metni Torbey, 03/08 19:30 - Reading : 7 minute(s)
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Five long years. Five years since the explosion on August 4, 2020, that mushroom-shaped cloud that swallowed the capital, crushed hundreds of lives, and left a nation in shock. Yet in Beirut, life has gone on as if nothing happened. As if more than 240 people had not died, as if over 7,000 had not been wounded, and as if the country were not ...