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After an hour and a half of tense political discussions, Lebanese MPs opposing the allocation of six parliamentary seats to ...
In a bustling conference room high above Dubai, a group of 10 entrepreneurs stood before a packed crowd of over 130 investors ...
Lebanese Customs at Beirut’s Rafic Hariri International Airport recently seized nearly $8 million in undeclared cash from ...
As the war unfolded last year, the Lebanese diaspora mobilized to raise money and emergency aid. Image. Konrad Kanaan, left, a 31-year-old lawyer based in France, visiting Beirut recently.
Some 1,400 Lebanese, including civilians and fighters of the militant group Hezbollah, have been killed and some 1.2 million driven from their homes since Israel escalated its strikes in late ...
The Lebanese diaspora today numbers around 15 million people, more than twice the country’s current population. «There are hardly any other people who have a similarly high ratio,» says North ...
The event targets the diaspora spread across more than 120 nations and will feature discussions covering topics from economic reforms to the banking sector and investments in Lebanon.
When Israeli airstrikes began raining down on southern Lebanon, Kamel Ahmad Jawad’s first instinct wasn’t to seek safety or return to the US. Instead, he volunteered at a hospital to help ...
California is home to the second-largest Lebanese diaspora in the U.S. after Michigan. Thousands gather annually at the Bay Area Lebanese Festival held in August in downtown Redwood City. On weekends, ...
It was a year ago when Jomana Siddiqui visited Lebanon, where her father was born - and is now buried. She planned to return there soon; this time, she thought, she would take her two teenage ...