Lebanon stories / 2016 - 2021

Crowds torch Tripoli’s Municipaly building

29/01/2021
Protesters torched a government building in Tripoli in a fourth night of unrest over strict lockdown measures. A third of the workforce is unemployed in Lebanon.

Basket, a new horizon for refugee girls

08/07/2019
Basketball creates new horizons for Lebanese, Syrian and Palestinian girls living in the Shatila refugee camp. They found a space of freedom amid many restrictions.

Impoverished citizens turn to bartering

28/07/2020
Economical collapse has thrown many Lebanese into poverty. Many resort to bartering in order to get food while TV chef Antoine El-Hajj abandons unaffordable beef.

Lebanese protesters defy the regime

26/10/2019
Despite threats by Hezbollah, protesters don’t give up and continue to demonstrate for better governance and against corruption and sectarianism.

Picasso came to Lebanon for first time

08/10/2019
Lebanon’s first Pablo Picasso exhibition opened at the Sursock Museum. Themed Picasso and the family, it features 20 works, ranging from paintings to sculptures.

Lebanon, impossible reconciliation?

17/04/2018
It is almost three decades of the end of the civil war that took place from 1975 to 1990 but many bounds are still open. Is reconciliation still possible in Lebanon?

E-cards for Syrian refugees in Lebanon

07/02/2017
World Food Programme launched E-Cards for Syrian refugees. The aim of the project is for the refugees to meet their food needs and to help boost the local economy.