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The 2020 port explosion in Beirut killed more than 250 people and injured 7000. 5 years later, many Beirutis still suffer physical and mental ill effects. Clotilde Bigot reports from Lebanon.
Raised in a storied family — his mother, Fayrouz, is one of the Arab world’s most beloved singers — he wrote works reflecting ...
Lebanon’s military court has convicted six people for killing a U.N. peacekeeper, according to the United Nations Interim ...
Lebanon's military tribunal has sentenced six people over the 2022 killing of an Irish peacekeeper in southern Lebanon, two judicial sources told Reuters on Tuesday, and a Lebanese security source ...
Washington is ramping up pressure on Beirut to swiftly issue a formal cabinet decision committing to disarm Hezbollah before ...
Ziad Rahbani is a renowned Lebanese composer, pianist, playwright, and political commentator, born in 1956. He is best known for his innovative contributions to Arabic music and theatre, blending ...
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun mourned Rahbani’s death as a national loss, describing him as “not just an artist, but a complete intellectual and cultural phenomenon.” In a statement, Aoun praised ...
BEIRUT — Ziad Rahbani, the visionary Lebanese composer, playwright, pianist and political provocateur, died on Saturday, at the age of 69, according to the state-run National News Agency. The death ...