by Charbel Lebbos | Sep 12, 2022 | Arab News
Thanks to solar energy, residents of the northern Lebanese village of Toula are finally able to enjoy ice cream again — a treat in a sun-baked country plagued by power cuts. Lebanon’s economy collapsed in 2019 after decades of corruption and mismanagement,...
by Charbel Lebbos | Sep 10, 2022 | Arab Economy, Arab News
Hazar, an 11-year-old Syrian girl from Aleppo, dreams of being a doctor and a teacher — but instead often finds herself collecting potatoes in Lebanon’s fertile Bekaa Valley to help her family pay their spiralling rent. Her mother Shamsa, 32, who has five other...
by Charbel Lebbos | Sep 10, 2022 | Arab News
The US mediator arbitrating negotiations of the maritime border between Lebanon and Israel concluded a speedy trip to Lebanon Friday, saying the two sides had made “good progress” in the talks but that “more work needs to be done” to reach an...
by Charbel Lebbos | Sep 9, 2022 | Arab News, Social Events
Lebanese-Tunisian actress Nadine Nassib Njeim is the face of Carolina Herrera’s latest perfume, Good Girl Midnight. The limited-edition fragrance is being launched exclusively in the Middle East. Njeim was chosen to represent “the confidence of the Middle Eastern...
by Charbel Lebbos | Sep 9, 2022 | Arab News
A vessel contracted by Israel to extract gas from a disputed gadfield partly claimed by Lebanon is set to begin production “within weeks”, raising the prospect of another round of conflict between Israeli forces and Lebanese armed group Hezbollah. The development...
by Charbel Lebbos | Sep 7, 2022 | Arab News
Sixty migrants were rescued by an Egyptian cargo ship in the Mediterranean sea just off the coast of Malta, Egypt’s Cabinet said on Tuesday. The Wadi Al Karnak cargo vessel, which rescued the stranded migrants, was on its way to the French port of Dunkirk to pick up...
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