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4 days ago
US official says Washington determined it was 'prudent to reduce our footprint to essential personnel' in Lebanon.
8 days ago
‘A love letter to Beirut’: Lana Daher on sifting 20,000 sources and 70 years of film to make Do You Love Me ○
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
Remembering and documentation are radical acts in Lebanon, a country with a tumultuous history and no national archive. Daher’s effervescent cultural collage is a direct challenge to collective amnes…
15 days ago
The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) by Rabih Alameddine review – drag fabulousness in war-torn Beirut ⊕⊕
Spanning eras of conflict and Covid in Lebanon, this irresistible queer coming-of-age tale explores what it means to be truly free
Meet Raja, the narrator of Rabih Alameddine’s new novel. A 63-year-ol…
25 days ago
Do You Love Me review – exhilarating documentary is ode to the collective courage of Lebanese people ⊕⊕⊕
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
In this freewheeling film Lana Daher draws from more than 20,000 hours of archival footage to channel the resilient spirit of Beirut
As freewheeling as a travelogue, Lana Daher’s mercurial documentary…
40 days ago
Mika looks back: ‘Nowadays you wouldn’t get away with the things journalists said about my sexuality in the noughties’ ⊕
The superstar singer on his itinerant childhood, brutally honest mother, and the moment of anger that led him to write Grace Kelly
Born in Beirut in 1983, Michael Holbrook Penniman Jr, otherwise known…
61 days ago
The fall of Lebanon’s TV drug baron ⊕
Beirut is cracking down on traffickers who enjoyed impunity for decades. But the roots of their illicit empires run deep
73 days ago
Beirut hosts colourful Christmas parade despite tension with Israel ⊕⊕
Despite tensions with Israel and a fragile ceasefire, Lebanon entered the festive season as Beirut hosted a colourful Christmas parade, with marching bands, music and bright decorations filling the c…
79 days ago
Bulgarian court rejects extradition of Russian owner of ship linked to Beirut port blast ⊖⊖
The supervising prosecutor, Angel Kanev, said that the key issue is whether sufficient guarantees have been provided that a death sentence will not be imposed.
Bulgarian court rejects Lebanon’s extradition request over Beirut blast ⊖⊖
No senior figure has been held accountable since the devastating explosion more than five years ago.
87 days ago
Pope prays at Beirut port blast site on last day of Lebanon visit ⊖
Pope Leo XIV demanded justice for the more than 200 victims of the disaster, at the end of his three-day visit to Lebanon.