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Lebanon’s children growing up with climate anxiety

Climate change in Lebanon is reshaping childhood through water scarcity, heat, food insecurity, and collapsing systems, creating a generation growing up under layered environmental and social stress.

From playing on a can of milk to touring the world with his magical Derbake show.

On Music Day, Rodolphe Manoukian redefines the Derbake on global stages

Advances from vinyl and cassette tapes to smartphones and streaming changed not only how music is distributed, but how it is experienced.

Music in the streaming age

Lebanon and the United States, exploring how civic identity, shared values, and responsibility shape national cohesion and how their erosion leads to division.

Two flags, two futures: What America and Lebanon can learn from each other

By Philip Honein

A China-Morocco trade deal: Opportunity or risk?

Featuring exclusive interviews with Chinese affairs specialist Dr. Nader Rong Huan and Moroccan economist Dr. Khaled Al-Shatta, the report explores the economic and strategic stakes facing Morocco behind China's proposal for a free trade agreement.

Lebanese Zajal: The poetry that never stopped singing

Lebanese zajal is a living poetic tradition rooted in ancient oral, musical, and spiritual practices that continues to shape cultural identity and collective memory in Lebanon.

How Wael Roumieh and Celine Mougarbel transformed a shoe retailer into one of Lebanon’s fastest-growing lifestyle brands.

Belinda: Sparking the Mystery Box movement

Lebanon and the Gulf-Europe rail vision

A proposed Gulf-Europe railway could reshape regional trade routes while reopening questions about Lebanon’s historic and future role in Middle Eastern rail connectivity.

How a Lebanese fashion designer managed to sew a style all his own with an unapologetic, ultra-glamorous flair.

The price of war, the price of peace

A new economic simulation suggests Lebanon could gain or lose nearly an entire economy’s worth of output by 2035 depending on whether conflict persists or regional stability emerges.

By Jessica Habchy

Charbel Zoe: The Lebanese designer who’s conquered the world

On Pride Month, the long memory of the hunted, and the question no slogan allows.

The forbidden third

By Jean Paul Boutros

Lebanon urges action to protect Tyre and Beaufort Castle

Lebanon is urging international action as military activity threatens the historic sites of Tyre and Beaufort Castle, two landmarks of global cultural significance.

As ceasefire negotiations remain volatile and both displacement and fighting persist, many Lebanese fear rebuilding may prove impossible after a second devastating war in less than two years.

Operation Litani: The 1978 invasion that reshaped Lebanon's future

Operation Litani was the culmination of a decade-long erosion of Lebanese sovereignty that transformed South Lebanon into a central battleground of the Arab-Israeli conflict.

By Dr. Elie Elias

Between reconstruction and despair

As Lebanon moves closer than ever to abolishing the death penalty, The Beiruter speaks with anti–death penalty advocate Dr. Ogarit Younan and revisits powerful testimonies from victims' families, and children whose voices have shaped one of the country's longest-running human rights battles.

The last mile: Beyond the gallows

Lebanon's mighty medieval castles face destruction

Nearly 900 years after they were built, Lebanon’s Crusader castles remain strategic strongholds, placing some of the country’s most important medieval landmarks directly in the path of modern warfare.

By Tony McMahon

Child abuse… the wound that does not heal

Child abuse remains one of Lebanon’s most urgent yet overlooked crises, leaving lasting scars on thousands of children and raising critical questions about protection, accountability, and healing.

How strategy, adaptability and music turned Chloe Kteily into an international act.

David Satterfield: Hezbollah’s death grip on Lebanon continues

Former U.S. Ambassador David Satterfield argues that only bold political action not military force can weaken Hezbollah’s hold on Lebanon and restore the country's sovereignty.

By Amal Chmouny

DJ Chloe Kteily: From Beirut nightlife to international stages

Riding toward unity in Lebanon

On World Bicycle Day, Bike Club Beirut highlights how cycling is bringing people together while encouraging safer, more sustainable mobility across Lebanon.

20 years after his assassination, Samir Kassir’s writings, activism, and vision of freedom continue to inspire Lebanon and the Arab world.

Iranians in London form new alliances

Rival Iranian groups are increasingly bringing their political battles to London’s streets, exposing deep divisions over Iran’s future and the alliances being formed abroad.

By Tony McMahon

Samir Kassir: Ideas that survived assassination

The Lebanese girl who sang into Rome's heart

From school performances in Lebanon to a viral moment in Rome, Adriana Diab’s journey reflects the power of talent, perseverance, and saying yes to unexpected opportunities.

E-cigarettes and heated tobacco products are gaining ground in Lebanon despite growing health concerns.

New tobacco and nicotine products reshape smoking habits in Lebanon

By Nada Merhi

The fall of Byzantium: A timeless warning for Lebanese Christians

The fall of the Byzantine Empire stands as a stark warning of how internal division and external abandonment can endanger Lebanon’s Christian community and its long-term future.

By Anthony Chamoun

Ten years of the Lebanese Canadian Film Festival

The Lebanese Canadian Film Festival marks its 10th edition, celebrating a decade of bringing Lebanese cinema and stories to audiences across Canada.

Exclusive interview to The Beiruter with François-Xavier Bellamy, Vice President of the European Parliament, on Lebanon’s sovereignty crisis, Hezbollah, France’s role, and the future of the Lebanese state.

Bellamy to The Beiruter: France and Lebanon’s enduring partnership

For Americans, a distant war arrives through prices

For many Americans, the Iran war registers not through casualties but through prices, an economic pressure that history shows can rapidly become political backlash.

Why Lebanon needs a National Sorry Day

Australia’s National Sorry Day raises questions of memory, accountability, and unresolved trauma that echo deeply within Lebanon’s own unhealed history of war and disappearance.

Drawing on exclusive figures and insights from the Lebanese Order of Nurses, The Beiruter investigates the growing strain inside Lebanon’s hospitals as understaffing, burnout, and migration push the country’s healthcare workforce closer to its breaking point.

Lebanon is quietly running out of nurses

A look at Lebanon’s golden cinema archive of the 1960s, when Beirut’s film industry and landmark works turned the country into a regional cultural and cinematic hub.

Lebanon's golden cinema archive of the 1960s

The crisis surrounding the Strait of Hormuz is exposing a widening gap between the rules governing global maritime trade and the technology now being used to undermine them.

The Strait of Hormuz and modern maritime coercion

Table 3 is raising awareness and giving a voice to marginalized Lebanese people.

Table 3: A show putting humanity at the forefront

As wealth concentration accelerates, the divide between rich and poor has evolved into a three-tiered system where economic scarcity literally narrows how the poorest can think about the future.

The E-shaped economy and the rise of three-tiered inequality

Lebanon’s Constitution marks 100 years of endurance amid deliberate implementation, recurring crises, institutional fragility, and ongoing struggles over statehood and reform.

The Lebanese Constitution: A century of endurance and crisis

By Anthony Chamoun

Feminist icons on the wall, male directors on the screen

Cannes 2026 honors Thelma & Louise while women behind the camera remain underrepresented in competition.

The ship that wouldn't stop

How Russia's ghost fleet delivered 27,400 tons of stolen Ukrainian grain to Syria and why the world's diplomatic architecture failed to stop it.

Lebanon’s youth step into politics

An exploration of how Lebanese youth are re-engaging with politics through democratic participation, debate, and a new generation’s attempt to rebuild trust in public life.

Built on Lebanon’s rich biodiversity and centuries-old beekeeping traditions, the country’s honey sector is evolving into a broader economy tied to tourism, entrepreneurship, sustainability, and rural livelihoods despite mounting environmental and economic pressures.

The new economy emerging from Lebanon’s beehives

Egypt’s Abrams tank modernization strengthens its military capabilities, prompting Israeli scrutiny over shifting regional dynamics despite decades of bilateral peace.

Politics

Why Israel is watching Egypt’s Abrams upgrade

The political traditions of Iran's funeral processions

Lebanon’s crisis stems from the collapse of both the State and its political system, calling for a sovereign state and a reimagined governance model that acknowledges societal diversity.

The state is not the system, yet both have failed Lebanon

By Michel Tawk

America's bases and the costs of global reach

The 2026 Iran war exposed both the strengths and vulnerabilities of the overseas bases and access agreements that have underpinned American power since World War II.

Washington increasingly treats Hezbollah as a Lebanese sovereignty challenge, making future U.S. support conditional on meaningful state action and reform.

Washington redefines the Hezbollah file

By Amal Chmouny

Ukraine’s EU accession process begins

Ukraine’s EU accession process begins following the bloc’s decision to open negotiations with Kyiv and Chișinău, signaling a historic enlargement shift amid the Russia-Ukraine war.

Israel’s emerging strategic partnership with Somaliland, following recognition and high-level visits, signals a geopolitical shift with implications for the Horn of Africa and Red Sea security dynamics.

The emerging Israel-Somaliland strategic partnership

Albania’s “Flamingo Revolution” marks a growing grassroots movement sparked by Jared Kushner’s proposed luxury resort dispute, expanding into wider demands for environmental protection and political reform.

Unpacking Albania’s “Flamingo Revolution”

Israeli minister Bezalel Smotrich’s Hebron decision challenges key Oslo-era arrangements.

Smotrich’s Hebron move raises Oslo questions

A U.S.-Iran memorandum of understanding could reshape Middle East security dynamics, including Lebanon’s position within a broader and still uncertain regional de-escalation framework.

Lebanon and the U.S.-Iran ambiguous understanding

In an exclusive interview with The Beiruter, Archimandrite Agapios Abu Saada sheds light on the recent Silwan incident, examining its broader significance for the Christian presence in Jerusalem and the ongoing challenges surrounding Church-owned properties in the Holy City.

Silwan and the question of presence

Israeli mothers’ open letter to President Joseph Aoun is presented as a potentially transformative civic initiative offering insights into ending the war and reviving peace prospects.

Could an Israeli letter help end the war

Armenia’s latest parliamentary election reaffirmed Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s gradual westward orientation while underscoring the country’s continued reliance on Russia, highlighting a delicate balancing act between competing regional and global powers.

Armenia between Moscow and the West

By Peter Chouayfati

Hezbollah’s two lungs under investigation

Judicial steps in Lebanon targeting financial entities linked to Hezbollah’s social and economic network are examined as part of broader state-building efforts and escalating legal scrutiny.

By Clara Jiha

A strategic pause in the U.S.-Iran conflict

In an exclusive interview with The Beiruter, Dr. Arash Azizi desribes the U.S.-Iran understanding as a tactical pause in conflict rather than a comprehensive peace settlement.

Military analysis and local sources examine whether repeated Hezbollah rocket incidents in Christian border villages are accidental or part of a broader depopulation strategy.

Why does Hezbollah want to empty the Christian border villages

By Richard Harfouch

Dahiyeh Doctrine resurfaces

The reemergence of Israel’s Dahiyeh Doctrine highlights growing calls for harsher deterrence against Hezbollah amid persistent border tensions.

Iran and Israel are increasingly confronting internal political, ideological, and social fractures that now rival traditional external security threats.

As Lebanon negotiates, Iran pushes back

A shifting balance of power in Lebanon is redefining the country's role in negotiations with Israel while raising questions about the future of Iranian and Hezbollah influence.

By Marwan El Amine

Iran and Israel: The threat within

France and Germany abandon their flagship fighter project, exposing divisions in European defense cooperation and challenging ambitions for strategic autonomy.

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A fracture in European defense ambitions

A 22-country coalition statement accuses Iran of covert assassinations and kidnappings, highlighting transnational repression and signaling escalating international confrontation concern.

A global warning on Iran’s covert activities

Turkey-Israel rivalry deepens as Erdogan warns Israeli operations threaten national security, reflecting widening regional fault lines and competing strategic doctrines.

The expanding Turkish-Israeli fault line

An informed American diplomatic source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, discussed whether the U.S. and Iran are moving toward negotiated de-escalation or renewed regional confrontation.

The road to peace or renewed conflict?

The fall of the Assad regime is reshaping Syrian-Lebanese relations, raising questions about Syria’s future role and Hezbollah’s position.

Can the Mullahs survive without an enemy?

The future of Hezbollah and Iran’s regional strategy raises fundamental questions about whether Lebanon’s priorities will be shaped by national interests or by broader geopolitical confrontations.

By Christiane Gemayel

Is Syria reasserting its influence in Lebanon?

Resumption of Lebanese exports to Saudi Arabia restores trade flows, signals improving relations, boosts key sectors, strengthens economic recovery process.

The return of Lebanese exports to KSA

A historical and contemporary examination of Israeli espionage against the United States, tracing a decades-long pattern of intelligence collection that the Pentagon has now formally designated a critical threat.

Keep your friends close…

By Peter Chouayfati

Trump revives Lebanon’s Syrian concerns

Trump’s remarks on a possible Syrian role against Hezbollah have revived longstanding Lebanese fears over sovereignty, history, and regional intervention.

Lebanon is reviving long-neglected airports, with Qleiaat leading efforts to expand aviation capacity, boost development, and strengthen connectivity.

Reviving Lebanon’s forgotten airport

For more than 150 years, Beirut's universities, newspapers, publishing houses, and research institutions have made the city one of the Middle East's most important centers of intellectual exchange.

A city of dialogue: How Beirut became a regional crossroads

Nabatieh’s strategic and symbolic role in Hezbollah’s southern network makes it a key Israeli target with major regional consequences.

Why does Israel view Nabatieh as “the biggest earthquake”?

By Nakhle Odaime

Implications for LAF Commander visit to Pakistan

Lebanese Army Commander’s visit to Pakistan highlights evolving military cooperation, regional balancing, and indirect diplomacy amid Middle Eastern tensions dynamics.

By Dr. Paula Abi Hanna

Lebanon cannot afford more misreadings of Berri’s role

Nabih Berri’s rejection of the latest Lebanon-Israel joint statement raises renewed questions about his role in relation to Hezbollah and Iran.

By Marwan El Amine

Why Iran chose to respond now

Researcher Wijdan Abdel Rahman explains the political, military, and diplomatic calculations that may have prompted Iran to respond now to Israel’s strikes on the southern suburbs of Beirut.

The legal and geopolitical debate over whether frozen Iranian assets could be used to fund Lebanon’s reconstruction raises complex issues of state responsibility, sovereign immunity, and international enforcement mechanisms.

Can Iran’s frozen assets compensate Lebanon?

44 years since the 1982 Israeli invasion, Lebanon still suffers from the very structural challenges of the past: a fragile state, presence of non-state armed actors (Hezbollah), and foreign military occupation (Israel).

From coexistence to division

Lebanon’s recurring crises raise a fundamental question: does the country's model of consensual coexistence preserve stability, or prevent the emergence of a stronger national state?

By Michel Tawk

A throwback to the 1982 invasion

Oman finds itself dangerously caught between the two warring powers as Trump's unprecedented threat to "blow up" the Gulf ally underscores the escalating tensions over control of the Strait of Hormuz.

The reluctant mediator caught in the crossfire of the US-Iran war

By Peter Chouayfati

Southern Lebanon: A history older than our divisions

A journey through the layered history of Southern Lebanon, tracing its evolution from Phoenician and Christian roots to Jabal Amel and its place within the modern Lebanese state.

By Christiane Gemayel

Russia reinforces its Syrian foothold

Russia reinforces its Syrian military foothold through renewed resupply missions, sustaining Khmeimim and Tartus bases amid post-Assad regional shifts developments.

Economy

Why the poor often pay more than the rich

How Lebanon’s heavy reliance on VAT, fuel taxes, customs duties and import charges places a disproportionate burden on lower and middle-income households.

Amendments to Lebanon’s banking reform law spark debate over IMF demands, governance independence, accountability, and systemic financial crisis implications ongoing.

Amendments to the banking sector reform law

As inflation continues to outpace wages, public sector employees are warning that temporary fixes are no longer sufficient and are calling for a broader plan to restore purchasing power and safeguard the functioning of state institutions.

Public employees reach a breaking point

As Iran relies on an expanding shadow fleet to sustain oil exports despite Western sanctions, the network may represent not only a sanctions-enforcement challenge but also a growing environmental risk, as aging tankers operate through some of the world's most economically and ecologically important waterways.

The ecological risks of Iran's shadow fleet

The labor market’s missing numbers

The lack of reliable labor market data is obscuring the true impact of war and economic contraction on employment, incomes, and job opportunities in Lebanon.

Recognition of Lebanon’s crisis as systemic shifts responsibility toward the state, reshapes reform debates, and redefines financial recovery efforts.

When the State acknowledges a systemic crisis

Lebanese manufacturers have weathered years of economic crisis and war, but declining exports, weak demand and rising costs are placing unprecedented strain on the sector.

Lebanese industry's costly resilience

Tripoli's railway returns after 50 years

After five decades of silence, plans to revive the Tripoli–Al-Aboudieh railway could reconnect Lebanon to regional trade networks and transform Tripoli into a key logistics hub.

Inflation returns to the forefront in Lebanon

Lebanon's inflation rate climbed to 17.3% in March 2026, as rising food, fuel, transport, generator, and leisure costs continue to squeeze household budgets despite relative currency stability.

Displacement: A growing burden on a fragile economy

As internal displacement grows across Lebanon, economists warn that its long-term costs on public finances, infrastructure, and economic growth far outweigh any short-term boost in consumer spending.

Seven years after Lebanon's financial collapse, an IMF assessment offers a detailed roadmap for governance reform, but political will remains the decisive factor.

Can Lebanon turn an IMF diagnosis into reform?

New research suggests that extreme inequality can create lasting consequences for economic mobility, social cohesion, and political trust.

The Gini gap: When inequality becomes a crisis

War, trade, and the future of carbon credits

As carbon markets expand into a major source of climate finance, sustained geopolitical tensions are raising questions about whether international cooperation can keep pace.

CBDCs are reshaping the future of money as governments move toward state-controlled digital currencies with growing implications for privacy, finance, and economic power.

CBDCs and the future of state-controlled money

By Anna Kachouh

The economics of impulse

From one-click checkout to buy-now-pay-later services, modern digital systems are being designed to make spending faster, easier, and harder to resist.

As Lebanon’s healthcare costs continue rising, growing pressure is mounting for universal healthcare reform amid widening gaps in medical access and insurance coverage.

The billion-dollar health question

By Jessica Habchy

Could Lebanon follow Greece’s recovery model?

Greece’s recovery offers a case study in how stronger tax administration and institutional independence can help rebuild fiscal credibility after a financial crisis.

Lebanon is preparing to reconnect with the Eastern Mediterranean through a new ferry network linking Jounieh to Cyprus, Syria, and Turkey, marking the country’s first major regional maritime transport revival in nearly two decades.

New maritime routes to link Jounieh with Cyprus, Syria, and Turkey

The Institute of International Finance warns that the U.S.–Iran conflict and energy shock are accelerating global economic divergence, slowing growth, destabilizing supply chains, and reshaping monetary policy across major economies.

A widening gap between global economies

A growing global debate is emerging over whether health taxes can simultaneously reduce preventable disease, encourage healthier consumption, and provide sustainable government revenue.

Can governments tax their way to better health?

The long fight for mothers’ financial rights in Lebanon

Lebanese mothers can now officially open accounts for their minor children under renewed enforcement of a long-overlooked financial rights directive.

Lebanon’s economy faces severe contraction as war disrupts growth, deepens recession, weakens key sectors, intensifies unemployment and instability in 2026.

War deepens contraction to 10 percent

The more energy a product needs, the higher its price

Lebanon’s inflation rate has surged to 17.3% as rising oil prices, import costs, and regional instability push food, transport, and housing expenses sharply higher.

Captagon has evolved into a multi-billion-dollar shadow industry linking Syria, Lebanon, and the Gulf through war, smuggling networks, and organized crime, turning the drug trade into one of the Middle East’s most powerful parallel economies.

Captagon: The drug empire fueling the Middle East

AI is emerging as a powerful tool for accelerating the clean energy transition, but its own growing electricity demand puts its climate credentials under scrutiny.

Can AI power the clean energy revolution?

Lebanese people are increasingly sacrificing social life, healthcare, and everyday comforts as the economic crisis forces survival to take priority over everything else.

When the economy falls ill… health does not survive

From grocery apps to airline tickets, surveillance pricing is transforming digital commerce by tailoring prices to individual consumers based on their data, browsing behavior, and predicted purchasing patterns.

Surveillance pricing: The invisible tax on your data

Lebanon regains regional financial prominence after BDL Governor Karim Saeed’s election to lead the Arab Monetary Fund’s Board of Governors.

Lebanon returns to Arab financial leadership

The growing trade in “virtual water” is exposing how international supply chains increasingly rely on the depletion of already water-stressed regions.

The hidden water debt in every import

Where childhood fails in the Arab world’s poorest countries

Millions of children across the Arab world’s poorest countries remain excluded not only from education, but from the very systems meant to measure and protect their futures.

The Iran war is accelerating a new global divide between countries insulated from fossil fuel volatility and those still deeply reliant on vulnerable energy imports and shipping routes.

Who wins and loses in the global energy shock

Consumers are cutting back across much of the economy, but leisure spending has remained resilient as people grow more selective about how, and how much, they spend on enjoyment.

The new economics of leisure

Lebanon’s used car sector faces near-total paralysis amid economic collapse, security instability, declining demand, mounting losses, and collapsing liquidity nationwide.

Paralysis strikes the used car sector

Rising living costs, remote work, and growing political fatigue are contributing to a new wave of outward migration from Western countries once defined primarily by immigration.

The new geography of exit

Lebanon's women farmers are still fighting for equality

Despite making up nearly half of the agricultural workforce in Lebanon and the MENA region, women farmers continue to face deep inequalities in land ownership, wages, and decision-making power.

$1 million market 26 years in the making

After standing unused for 26 years, Beirut’s Central Market may finally reopen or be reinvented as part of a broader commercial and agri-food hub project.

Lebanon’s economy grew modestly in 2025 amid fragile reforms, recovering tourism, and persistent structural, financial, and regional challenges nationwide overall.

How regional conflict pushed Lebanon back into recession

How Lebanon’s public sector wage system driven by pensions, hiring, and policy choices has become a major strain on state finances.

Lebanon’s public sector wages: A fiscal burden

Lebanon’s olive oil sector pays the price of war

How war and destruction are pushing southern Lebanon’s olive oil sector into crisis, threatening both livelihoods and heritage.

As Lebanon’s summer festivals are called off, an entire seasonal economy tied to tourism, nightlife, and local livelihoods is being shaken. The Beiruter spoke with festival organizers and tourism officials about the country’s fragile economic cycle.

Lebanon’s summer has been cancelled

Treating scars, pigmentation, and tattoos requires a tailored approach and a careful diagnosis.

Special report

Two flags, two futures: What America and Lebanon can learn from each other

Lebanon and the United States, exploring how civic identity, shared values, and responsibility shape national cohesion and how their erosion leads to division.

By Philip Honein

The B

Marks, scars, and tattoos: Evolving treatment options

By Nada Merhi

When Tripoli became Lebanon's biggest stadium

From drums and dabke to Brazilian flags and roaring crowds, the World Cup Festival brought football, food and a new energy to the historic fairgrounds.

By Rayanne Tawil

Beirut between Ottoman arches and French facades

How architecture transformed Beirut from a provincial Ottoman port into a Mediterranean capital and why preserving those layers still matters today.

By Fadi Badran

The race to see the world

As international travel becomes more accessible, destinations have transformed from places of discovery into collectible achievements tracked through leaderboards, social media rankings, and luxury status hierarchies.

From insomnia and self-doubt to social withdrawal and burnout, silent anxiety can affect nearly every aspect of daily life while remaining largely hidden from view.

“Silent anxiety” and the struggles you cannot see

The 8th Brazilian Film Festival in Beirut

The 8th Brazilian Film Festival in Beirut celebrates the deep cultural ties between Brazil and Lebanon through a diverse lineup of acclaimed films exploring identity, resilience, and social change.

The hands that carve the Cedars of God

For more than six decades, cedar craftsman Joseph Tawk has preserved one of Lebanon’s oldest mountain traditions, transforming the nation’s most iconic tree into works of memory, faith, and heritage.

More than a festival, Hammana's Cherry Festival is a yearly homecoming where agriculture, heritage, and community come together around a harvest that has shaped the village for generations.

When Hammana turns cherry red

Maria Magro's Between Two Shores uses watercolor to explore how architecture functions as both a witness to history and a repository of memory, linking personal experience to the layered histories of places such as Beirut, Jerusalem, and Baalbek.

Architecture, memory, and the places we carry

The 1970s reinvention of Lebanese cinema

A look back at the golden era of Lebanese cinema in the 1970s, when filmmakers transformed a thriving industry into a powerful tool for documenting war, identity, and social change.

How Lebanese taekwondo continues to thrive against the odds through the dedication of its athletes, federation, and Olympian doctor-athlete.

From local clubs to Olympic dreams

FAO supports Lebanon agriculture sector

Conflict-related damage has devastated Lebanon’s agricultural sector, prompting international efforts to support recovery and safeguard food security.

The rise of AI pop stars

AI-generated music is rapidly transforming the Arab music scene, raising new questions about creativity, authenticity, artistic rights, and the future of musical heritage.

Coffee is Lebanon's love language

Coffee is more than a beverage in Lebanon; it is a cultural tradition deeply tied to hospitality, family rituals, and everyday life.

The Lebanese woman's guide to football

Football in Lebanon is often about more than goals and trophies, with many fans paying as much attention to players' character and personal lives as their performances on the pitch.

Long associated with rapid population growth and youthful societies, the Middle East is increasingly confronting the demographic challenges as Europe and East Asia of falling fertility, aging populations, and slower workforce growth.

The great population reversal

France Day at USEK offered a window into how a centuries-old relationship is adapting to a new era, with education, entrepreneurship, research, and talent mobility increasingly defining cooperation between the two countries.

The future of Franco-Lebanese ties

The Lebanese judo champion who found her fight

From reluctant beginner to international champion, Lebanese judoka Aquilina Chayeb is fighting her way toward Olympic qualification.

Nearly twenty years after Lebanese authorities attempted to ban Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi's memoir continues to resonate with Lebanese audiences who see in its themes of war, exile, and loss echoes of their own experience.

How Persepolis found a Lebanese audience

Alexa Mina: Lebanon’s first female weightlifter at the Asian games

Lebanese weightlifting champion Alexa Mina discusses becoming the first Lebanese woman to compete in weightlifting at the Asian Games.

Through his platform We Love Bsharri, Charbel Rahme is documenting the people, heritage, and spirit of Bsharri while helping reconnect the village with its residents and diaspora.

Bsharri reclaimed through digital memory

Breakthrough cancer drugs, precision diagnostics, and next-generation immunotherapies unveiled in 2026 are reshaping treatment and improving patient outcomes across multiple cancers.

The most significant cancer breakthroughs to date

Lebanon’s coastline is facing a growing environmental crisis as sewage, plastic waste, and chemical pollution threaten marine ecosystems and public health.

Lebanon's drowning coastline

The Cannes-winning filmmaker arrives at Metropolis, bringing his cinema of landscapes, faith and survival to a packed Metropolis audience, while Lebanese and Arab films reclaimed the screen through stories rooted in the region.

Oliver Laxe arrives at South Screens Metropolis

By Rayanne Tawil

University sports return with Lebanon cup

The Lebanon Universities Cup marks the return of university sports in Lebanon, bringing together student athletes from across the country in a multi-sport competition despite ongoing financial and institutional challenges.

mfm Radio combines trusted journalism, fresh voices, and engaging programming to keep Lebanon informed, connected, and entertained across both traditional airwaves and digital platforms.

The voice that never went silent

The fight for food safety in Lebanon

As food insecurity rises and oversight challenges persist, Lebanon is working to strengthen food safety standards to protect public health and consumer confidence.

How Fady Abounaoum walked away from a high-paying job in Dubai, returned to Lebanon to build an Italian restaurant, and kept learning to thrive

Burning the tie: Fady Abounaoum’s second act

At an older age, Amo Adel is cooking dishes that many young Lebanese only remember from their grandparents’ tables. Inside his modest apartment in Basta, he serves food and stories from a life spent crossing continents, always returning to the kitchen.

Meet Amo Adel

By Rayanne Tawil

From Beirut to Moscow: A shared history through language

As World Russian Language Day is observed, the history of Arabic loanwords, Soviet-era education, Russia's Muslim communities, and Lebanon's Russian-speaking diaspora reveals a relationship rooted in centuries of cultural exchange.

As anxiety and stress remain elevated globally, neurowellness is shifting the focus of wellness from self-tracking and optimization toward recovery, regulation and emotional wellbeing.

Neurowellness moves wellness beyond metrics

The South’ last health lifeline

A rural Lebanese healthcare clinic serving all communities says it has been left without meaningful state support for nearly a decade despite filling critical gaps in the country's strained health system.

An environmental SOS on World Environment Day

On World Environment Day, experts warn that Lebanon's escalating pollution crisis is threatening public health, natural resources, and the country's future.

Dr. Mohamed H. Sayegh believes that Lebanese talent can achieve global excellence in science and medicine, but requires stronger institutional support, funding, and international collaboration to sustain its impact.

The Lebanese scientist behind a historic medical triple crown

Lebanese stories mirrored on Canadian screens

The Lebanese Film Festival in Canada celebrates its 10th anniversary with a milestone edition showcasing Lebanese cinema, culture, and community.

Abdallah Yassine made Lebanese para-swimming history

Lebanese para-swimmer Abdallah Yassine became the first in the country’s history to qualify for the Asian Para Games, achieving the milestone less than a year after beginning competitive training.

Lebanese cuisine developed into a naturally healthy, plant-forward food culture centuries before modern nutrition science popularized the Mediterranean diet.

Lebanese cuisine: The blueprint for modern healthy eating

Cartier is quietly overtaking Rolex among younger luxury buyers, as Gen Z and millennials shift from status-driven sports watches toward elegant, jewellery-inspired timepieces rooted in design and heritage.

Cartier is winning Gen Z, Rolex isn't

New WMO report warns global temperatures could reach record highs by 2030, with Lebanon already experiencing climate breakdown according to climate expert Dr. Doumit Kamel.

WMO warns of record global heat by 2030

World Monuments Fund preserving heritage in the Arab World

In an exclusive interview, Dr. Elie Flouty, Regional Representative of World Monuments Fund (WMF) in the Arab countries, offers insight into the organization's dedicated efforts to safeguard and restore the region's most vulnerable heritage sites.