Beirut was once full of houses like this. Henry Loussian has spent years salvaging architectural features before the wrecker's ball could get to them. Many were lost during the civil war that engulfed ...

Beirut, Lebanon — When the first wave of Israeli airstrikes hit Beirut, Mariatu Swaray frantically called her employers to ask for help. But they had already fled abroad, leaving their Sierra Leonean ...

The young people leading the huge volunteer effort after the recent blast are bringing hope, but have lost it themselves. “I want to at least have Beirut on its feet before I go,” one said. By Vivian ...

Left: Nada Ghazal at her London townhouse, right: Ghazal's office after the 2020 Beirut explosion - Tereza Cervenova/Nada Ghazal The Lebanese jeweller Nada Ghazal can’t hear the doorbell ringing at ...

A little online research into Beirut reveals that the city is often constructed through clichéd binaries, such as “resilient city” and “iconic city.” Articles range from fantastical promises of food, ...

We get an update from Lebanon, where the death toll from Israeli airstrikes has risen to over 700 since Monday, following a series of explosions involving pagers and walkie-talkies in Beirut and ...

As Lebanon marks a year since a huge blast at the Beirut port, the sister of one of the victims is still working to pick up the pieces of her life and continue her search for justice. To Beirut now, ...

BEIRUT — In the streets of the Shatila refugee camp, late Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat's image is still painted on concrete walls. It's been 20 years since Arafat's death, ...

I wince every time I see footage of the Beirut port blast. In the leadup to its anniversary my colleagues and I have had to pore over hours of video of the explosion and its aftermath. It’s not an ...

One year after the Beirut port explosion, a new Human Rights Watch report implicates senior Lebanese officials in the disaster that killed 218 people, wounded 7,000 others and destroyed vast swaths of ...

It has been nearly three weeks since an enormous explosion at Beirut’s port tore through the city. With Lebanon already suffering from food scarcity, economic collapse and the coronavirus pandemic, ...