Mazin Sidahmed
Back to Roots familiarizes expats with their Lebanese heritage
Mazin Sidahmed Jul. 01, 2015 | 12:32 AM
FARAYA, Lebanon: Wandering through the ruins in Faqra, George Naameh explained that he was excited to see what had changed in Lebanon since he was last here...
Turning women into entrepreneurs in Shatila
Mazin Sidahmed Jun. 30, 2015 | 12:26 AM
BEIRUT: "I think it looks great on you," Mushfa tells a customer who is mulling over the purchase of a pair of trousers. Sensing the uncertainty, Mushfa, who...
Lebanon's Syrian refugees to face aid cuts
BEIRUT: Some 750,000 Syrian refugees in Lebanon will have their food aid cut by 50 percent next month as the United Nations implements severe cost-saving...
Making music to feel at home: Chyno's magnum opus
B EIRUT: Sitting in his bedroom studio in Gemmayzeh, rapper Nasser Shorbaji's ginger cat Latifah slips between his legs and claws at a keyboard case in...
Internal row erupts in Civil Defense over ultimatum
BEIRUT: An internal dispute was sparked within the Civil Defense Tuesday as the body's General Directorate rejected a news conference held by volunteers...
EU Council pushes for Lebanon to elect a President
BEIRUT: The Council of the European Union issued a strong message to Lebanese parliamentarians Monday to expedite the process of electing a president. The...
Europe envoy calls out refugee intake disparity
BEIRUT: Members of the European Union need to do more to share the burden of the Syrian refugee crisis with Lebanon, a European Parliament delegation said...
Festive Ramadan spirit takes over Beirut
BEIRUT: Vegetable stands, sweet shops, bakeries and butchers in Tariq al-Jadideh were all heaving with customers Thursday as people assembled the necessary...
Syrians in Lebanon struggle to bury their dead
QUBBET SHAMRA, Lebanon: In the small seaside Akkar village of Qubbet Shamra sits a plot of land almost completely congested with gravestones. "We get...
Lebanese Army tests newly acquired TOW-II missiles
TAYBEH, Lebanon: The Lebanese Army demonstrated their newly received TOW-II missile launchers Wednesday at a military base in the Bekaa Valley in a show of...
Chouf municipal heads call for decentralization
BAAQLIN, Lebanon: On a warm Friday afternoon in the mountain town Baaqlin in the Chouf, several heads of municipalities and concerned citizens packed into the...
Lebanon's Filipinos mark Independence Day
BEIRUT: On Sunday afternoon in the courtyard of the St. Joseph's Church, eight Filipina women gracefully stepped around each other as they performed the...
Malnutrition soars in region, Lebanon rates remain low
BEIRUT: The number of people suffering from malnutrition in the region has doubled over the past 25 years, according to a new study by United Nations...
Engineers urge action plan to make Lebanon quake proof
BEIRUT: As part of efforts to raise awareness on Lebanon's vulnerability to earthquakes, engineers called for an action plan to update the country's weak...
Year after attack, Dar al-Aytam center returns twice as big
BEIRUT: "This is where we hid when the bombs went off," Rehab Samhan, a teacher at Dar Al-Aytam Al-Islamiya, told The Daily Star as she pointed...
Syrian refugees buckle under health care bills in Lebanon
Mazin Sidahmed May. 30, 2015 | 12:25 AM
BEIRUT: "Who's there?" asked Dr. Mohammad Farhat, director of Hamid Farhat Hospital in the Bekaa Valley town of Majdal Anjar. "The...
The disabled demand access to information on rights
BEIRUT: Disabled people in Lebanon suffer from a range of difficulties in accessing services such as health care and education, and therefore cannot exercise...
Lebanon can gain from regional nuclear drive
BEIRUT: Lebanon could potentially reap the benefits from a new region-wide push toward the use of nuclear energy, experts at an energy workshop organized by...
Youth groups protest Samaha's sentence
BEIRUT: Demonstrators gathered outside the Military Court Wednesday to protest what they described as a lenient prison sentence handed to ex-Minister Michel...
Donors voice concern over lack of president
BEIRUT: The International Support Group for Lebanon expressed Tuesday their commitment to the stability of Lebanon in the face of the ongoing crisis in Syria,...
Government launches plan to prevent forest fires
BEIRUT: The Association of Forests and Conservation and the Agriculture and Environment ministries rolled out a new awareness campaign Tuesday to prevent...
Social health students learn charity fundraising
BEIRUT: Fundraising is at the core of any charity's operations. Writing proposals and acquiring services at a reduced cost are the foundations of any...
World Bank, municipality agree to make Beirut earthquake resilient
BEIRUT: The World Bank and the municipality of Beirut signed an agreement Thursday to improve Beirut's infrastructure and make the city more resilient against...
AUB medical program ranked as best in region
BEIRUT: The American University of Beirut is among the top 300 universities in world and the best in the region in the subject of medicine, according to the...
Degradation of UNRWA services boosts extremism
Mazin Sidahmed Apr. 30, 2015 | 12:14 AM
BEIRUT: A failure to deliver much-needed services to refugees in Palestinian camps across Lebanon will leave a vacuum that could be filled by extremist...
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