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Wael pushed the key into the rusty lock and wiggled it from left to right until he felt the grooves catch and turn. He pushed the door open, kicked...
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In late February 1966, a faction of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party in Syria ousted the old leadership in a coup. The new leadership of young socialist Ba'athists included...
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Jawahir "JJ" Roble is so dedicated to her career as a football referee she has "cut down" on her consumption of chicken nuggets in favour of "good food, like...
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Our interview with co-founder of the Celebrating Syria Festival Abir Tobji
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Lebanese author Naji Bakhti's debut novel is timely even though it is set in 2006. Touching on issues of adolescence, sectarianism, culture, conflict and emigration, Between Beirut and the...
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Our interview with co-chair of the Palestinian History Tapestry Jan Chalmers
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Matt Hancock made the statement during an interview with LBC radio yesterday morning, without providing further detail on the government’s plan for the Christmas period.
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Lebanese have taken to social media with the Arabic hashtag #Not_Cooking_on_Sunday, after caretaker Interior Minister Mohammed Fahmi suggested woman should start preparing food when a ban on deliveries came into force as part of the coronavirus lockdown
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Our interview with Roua Naboulsi of the London Palestine Film Festival
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The son of current US President, Donald Trump, has been ridiculed online for seemingly confusing India with Iran on a hypothetical global electoral map prediction. Donald Trump Jr appeared to...
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The Taif Accord was signed 31 years ago today and led to the official ending of the Lebanese Civil War a year later. The accord set out a new...
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Translated 30 years after it was originally published in Arabic as Bab al-Saha, Sahar Khalifeh's Passage to the Plaza is a fast-paced novel that follows a multi-generational cast through...
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Nutella has caused an internet storm this week after the brand's US Twitter account incorrectly said the product was not halal. The claim was made after a Manchester-based Twitter...
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Fans have heaped praise on Little Mix’s Jade Thirlwall after she revealed her desire to reconnect with her Egyptian-Yemeni heritage
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An NGO in Jordan is using skateboarding to bring refugee communities together. Skateboarding, explains Belgian-born Kas Wauters, the programme manager of the 7Hills skatepark in Amman, helps to break down...
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The Children's Cancer Centre of Lebanon (CCCL) provides free treatment for children from across the Middle East, irrespective of nationality, religion or ethnicity. In the wake of the massive...
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It is immediately clear Iraqi culture is close to Ahmed Habib's heart when he describes fried aubergine sandwiches as "the world's way of saying everything will be fine". "They...
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Even before 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate exploded in Beirut's port, killing nearly 200, injuring thousands more and devastating the city and the country's main port on 4 August, Lebanon was struggling...
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Lebanon has a deserved reputation for resilience; an uncanny ability to rebuild and carry on when all seems lost. The last ten months, however, have tested that resilience, bringing...
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Canadian rapper Drake has made waves after he used Arabic lyrics in his latest single, a collaboration with Headie One titled Only You Freestyle, released on Monday. Drake, who...
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"Boom, boom, boom, boom," says Sergeant Rudy Reyes, a former US recon marine, as he stares down the camera lens in the first episode of the BBC Two documentary...
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In Palestine, where Israel's occupation and military checkpoints, encroaching settlements and the imminent threat of annexation are daily realities, animal welfare is not really a priority for most people....
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Iran is under pressure to halt the executions of 3 men who were arrested during anti-government protests in 2019
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Since October last year, Lebanon's police and security forces have investigated or detained more than 100 civil rights activists in what Human Rights Watch (HRW) has termed a "spate...
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This Palestinian-British filmmaker specialises in emotive short films which detail aspects of the daily life of Palestinians living in their ancestral homes in the occupied territories
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In August 2013, a military defector, known by the pseudonym “Caesar”, sent and smuggled more than 50,000 photographs out of Syria.
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Floyd’s death sparked an outpouring of public anger about racially-motivated police brutality, triggering calls for the defunding of police departments in America and reforming school curriculums to include colonial history
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Lebanon's protesters have offered safety tips and shared their support via social media with demonstrators who took to the streets in over 75 cities in the US over the...
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"Whatever financial technical solutions you put in place, the underlying problem is a political dysfunction here… what we have now doesn't work and is never going to work… [the...
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At the end of April, Lebanon's Tripoli witnessed some of the most violent clashes between security forces and protesters since anti-government demonstrations exploded across the country in October. One...
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Iraq's last princess dies aged 100. Princess Badiya bint Ali was born in Damascus in 1920. Her father King Ali bin Al-Hussein briefly ruled the Hejaz kingdom in western Arabia and held the title of Grand Sharif of Makkah
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Lebanon last week legalised the cultivation and export of cannabis for medicinal and industrial purposes. The move is intended to provide an economic stimulus for the country's ailing economy,...