Lebanon
The best of dispatches, features and analysis.
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FEATURE
‘Where can you hide from pollution?’: cancer rises 30% in Beirut as diesel generators poison city
The Guardian
22 April 2024
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Tale of two Lebanons: après-ski champagne flows, while 80% live in poverty
The Sunday Times
23 March 2024
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‘The people in Gaza shouldn’t leave their homes. Dying is better than the situation we are in’
The Times
20 November 2023
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The Independent
3 November 2023
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FEATURE
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‘I might not go back to school’: childhood dreams fade as poverty forces Lebanon’s young into work
The Daily Telegraph
26 February 2021
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Doctors treat patients in cars as Lebanon's hospitals buckle amid a surge of Covid patients
The Daily Telegraph
1 February 2021
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ANALYSIS
How a Hezbollah-backed game show host cost Lebanon its rich Gulf allies
The New Statesman
18 November 2021
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'How can I rebuild my home?' Life-long Beirutis become displaced in their own city
The Daily Telegraph
7 August 2020
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Dispatch: The desperate search for bodies in rubble-strewn Beirut continues
The Daily Telegraph
5 August 2020
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FEATURE
'This will get ugly': Lebanon's health system trapped between economic catastrophe and coronavirus
The Daily Telegraph
31 July 2020
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'Thrown away like garbage': the plight of foreign workers in crisis-hit Lebanon
The Daily Telegraph
14 June 2020
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Lebanon’s people are finally rejecting their country’s entrenched political elite
The New Statesman
28 October 2019
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DISPATCH
The best of the rest
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Israel 'fired US-supplied white phosphorous' into Lebanon in possible war crime (Telegraph)
Reuters journalist ‘killed by shell from Israeli tank’ (The Times)
Hassan Nasrallah is one man capable of igniting a wider war in the Middle East (Telegraph)
Israel-Hamas: the view from Beirut (Tortoise)
Reuters journalist killed in Israeli strike at Lebanon border (Telegraph)
UK company ordered to pay damages over deadly Beirut docks blast (The Times)
Hizbollah stages show of strength as stark warning to Israel (Telegraph)
Lebanon wakes up in two rival time zones in dispute over daylight saving (Telegraph)
Why Lebanon’s drivers can’t be legal (The Economist)
Former Lebanese PM charged with homicide over Beirut blast (The Times)
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Hizbollah leader warns of civil war after days of Lebanon protests (The Telegraph)
'Complete rubbish': Lebanese president's plea to protesters met with anger (Middle East Eye)
Lebanon's duelling protests: Streets of Beirut flood with renewed demonstrations (Middle East Eye)
Lebanese protesters thwart attempt to hold controversial parliament session (Middle East Eye)
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Hizbollah operative sentenced to five life terms over assassination of (The Telegraph)
Dozens of Lebanese prisoners on the loose after dawn jailbreak (The Telegraph)
Song of sorrow brings smiles back to abandoned maids in Lebanon (The National)
Three dead as hundreds of wildfires ravage the Middle East (The Telegraph)
'People will die within months': In Lebanon pandemic accelerates hunger (The Telegraph)
Lebanon's hopes for reform collapse as PM-designate Adib resigns (The Telegraph)
Lebanon MP warns country has ‘lost control’ of Covid-19 (The National)
France backs Hariri proposal to break cabinet deadlock (The National)
Lebanese brave perilous sea crossing to escape country in crisis (The National)
Lebanon ‘headed for hell without new government’ (The National)
Lebanon’s coronavirus cases spiraling ‘beyond expectations’ (The National)
Search called off for 'miracle' survivor in Beirut rubble (The Telegraph)
Beirut blast: Two Lebanese ministers resign as protesters clash with security forces (The Telegraph)
Migrant crisis in Lebanon worsens as more workers dumped on the streets (The Telegraph)
Lebanon hit by new protests as Covid-19 crushes economy already in collapse (The Telegraph)