A Syrian refugee boy jumps from a swing as he plays under cloudy skies at the public beach of Ramlet al Bayda in Beirut, Lebanon, in 2015.
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Many displaced Syrians responded to harsh border controls by passing through permeable borders, using alternative routes and relying upon the use of smugglers and social networks.
Mahdi Shaban, a Palestinian living in Gaza, paid for his master’s degree with earnings from digging graves.
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Political and economic forces across the Middle East and North Africa combine to mean well-educated young people spend years looking for work, which delays their independence and adulthood.
Lebanese voters wait to enter a polling station to cast their votes in Beirut during the 2022 Lebanese parliamentary election.
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The election of independent parliamentarians in Lebanon is a move away from sectarian politics, say experts.
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With fuel shortages and economic ruin causing havoc in the country, Lebanon is in dire need of help. But its supporters may have run out of patience.
One year on from the blast that destroyed Beirut’s port, popular anger is growing.
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Lebanon is in the depths of one of the worst financial crises in history.
One year on: Beirut’s port remains in a mess, much like the country’s economy.
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Lebanon is in trouble: a million Syrian refugees, one of the worst financial crises in more than 100 years and a corrupt and divided political system.
Palestinian university student Mira Krayem, 24, poses for a picture in an alley of the Palestinian refugee camp of Shatila in Lebanon’s capital Beirut, on May 21, 2021.
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Paulo Freire’s concept of “conscientization”, or critical consciousness, helps us better understand the lives of young Palestinians, particularly those living in Lebanese refugee camps.
Tahrir Square, then and now.
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In the ten years since the Arab Spring, the countries affected have transformed completely. Here’s how.
A Syrian refugee holds up a sign with a portrait of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, during a protest outside the headquarters of the United Nations refugee agency, UNHCR, demanding to be moved out of Lebanon, in September 2020.
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As countries around the world develop their own private sponsorship systems, they should acknowledge how elusive refugee status can be. Policy-makers should proceed accordingly.
French troops help unload boxes of French Red Cross humanitarian aid in Beirut on Aug. 17.
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As foreign aid pours into Beirut, its uneven distribution reflects and exacerbates the pre-existing class and race fissures in Lebanese society.
Anger in Beirut after two explosions on August 4 killed more than 200 people and injured more than 7,000.
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How can the international community help Lebanon’s people not its power-sharing regime?
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I feel justified for leaving decades ago but my heart bleeds for the people trapped in Lebanon.
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The disaster exposes wider failures of governance and comes amid a deep economic crisis.
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Torn apart by years of war and now effectively bankrupt, the country and its people are facing a new devastation.
Devastation in central Beirut following the explosion on 4 August 2020.
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The port, and surrounding neighbourhoods devastated by the explosion, are at the heart of Beirut.
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For combustion to occur, oxygen must be present. Ammonium nitrate prills provide a much more concentrated supply of oxygen than the air around us.
Members of an arm of Hezbollah spray disinfectant in a Beirut neighborhood to fight the spread of the coronavirus.
AP Photo/Bilal Hussein
Criminal gangs, insurgents and terrorist groups seek to protect the people in the areas they govern, when a central government’s power is weak or nonexistent.
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How the humanitarian consequences of the Syrian crisis have spilled across the region.
Women have been at the forefront of Lebanon’s anti-government protests.
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A power-sharing agreement that shares power between Lebanon’s different sectarian communities is no longer fit for purpose.
A Middle Bronze Age child from the Lebanese site of Sidon buried in a large jar. Smaller ceramics were placed with the dead as funerary objects.
Claude Doumet-Serhal
Researchers used advanced chemical analyses to study breastfeeding in some of the world’s first farming communities.