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  • The face of a woman is projected onto a wall made of large stone blocks.
    Fairuz

    Songs for a Lebanon that never existed

    Lebanese singer Fairuz, now a 90-year-old icon, began her career 70 years ago with mould-breaking musical theatre. Setting artistic milestones alongside the Rahbani brothers, she soundtracked the history of Lebanon through an era marked by suffering and war.

  • A man takes a bottle of washing detergent from a shelf in cooperative supermarket Mann wa Salwa in Beirut, Lebanon
    Life in Lebanon

    Fighting sectarianism with cheap groceries

    Two women in Lebanon's capital, Beirut, have founded a non-profit grocery store that offers goods at affordable prices. But their bigger vision is to break down political and religious segregation

  • Financial crisis in Lebanon

    Beirut's bank robber folk heroes

    Desperation is driving some Lebanese to take matters into their own hands. These days, robbing a bank to access your own money is likely to make you a folk hero. Karim El-Gawhary met two such 'criminals' in Beirut

  • A popular Beirut-based media platform is tackling some of local society's most sensitive subjects – things like sex, love, desire and gender roles – with distinctive humour.
    Equality in the Arab world

    Lebanon's 'dangerous' Khateera feminists

    A popular Beirut-based media platform is tackling some of Arab society's most sensitive subjects – such as sex, love, desire and gender roles – with distinctive humour. Diana Hodali reports

  • Three years after the massive explosion, relatives of the victims are still campaigning for accountability.
    Beirut blast 3 years on

    Still seeking justice in Lebanon

    Three years after the explosion in Beirut port that killed nearly 220 people and displaced tens of thousands from their homes, the family of one of the youngest victims is still seeking answers and fighting for justice. By Diana Hodali

  • Lebanon's economic collapse

    Staring into the abyss

    Lebanon was long viewed as the Switzerland of the Middle East. Until relatively recently, billions were deposited in its banks. Gulf states were among the foremost investors in Beirut. But this all came to an end in 2019. Now the troubled nation is gripped by the worst economic crisis in its history. Birgit Svensson reports from Beirut and Tripoli

  • Jadd Hilal's debut novel

    Women searching and yearning for home

    In his debut novel, "Flügel in der Ferne" (Wings in the Distance), award-winning French author Jadd Hilal gives voice to four women from four different generations who tell the stories of their uprooted lives in Europe and the Middle East. By Volker Kaminski  

  • Aref El Rayess' works express the darkness of the civil war.
    Lebanon between the wars

    The revolutionary art of Beirut's golden 60s

    A Berlin exhibition explores the buzzing heyday of Beirut's art scene in the 1960s – and how it was cut short by the darkness of the Lebanese civil war. By Ruairi Casey

  • During 2011's Arab Spring protests in Egypt, crowds chanted "bread, freedom and social justice".
    Middle East

    A new Arab Spring, thanks to the Ukraine war?

    The price of bread is rising rapidly in the Middle East, thanks to concerns about wheat supply from Ukraine and Russia. In the past, such increases have led to violent protests and political upheaval. By Cathrin Schaer

  • Lebanon

    Beirut nightlife grinds to a halt

    A pandemic, civil strife and an economic meltdown have conspired to bring Beirut's vibrant club scene to its knees. Yet the city needs parties more than ever. Kate Martyr reports

  • "Language as clear as water, reflecting the depths of our souls and calling to them."
    Etel Adnan, Lebanese American poet and artist

    A woman full of questions and innocence

    Etel Adnan, the artist who transcended the borders of culture and language, may have died in Paris, writes Lebanese author Elias Khoury, yet her death holds a mirror up to the stifling rhythm of what Beirut has become. Indeed, every death now seems a metaphor for the death of Beirut

  • Economic crisis in Lebanon

    The subsidy quandary

    Flour, medicine, fuel … a whole range of essential goods is subsidised in Lebanon. If the subsidies stop, then prices, poverty and the possibility of conflict increases. If they don't, the country runs out of money. Local experts say they have an answer. They just need politicians to act on it. Cathrin Schaer reports from Beirut

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