Lebanon
The Erasure of Khiam
A researcher who spent years building a virtual reconstruction of a detention center in southern Lebanon watched satellite imagery confirm what he feared: The prison where thousands were held without charge had been razed to the ground by Israeli excavators.
Reality Bites in Lebanon
For decades, Lebanese politicians survived by lying to everyone at once. Israel’s war has made that impossible. The country is facing a choice it can no longer defer: confront Hezbollah, or watch Israel do it for them, and then stay.
Along an Increasingly Tense Border, Calls for Revenge Are Mounting
As the Syrian military deploys along the Syria-Lebanon frontier and tensions threaten to escalate, Syrian families making the crossing home carry memories of Hezbollah's role in their dispossession, and some are calling for scores to be settled.
Hezbollah’s Attack on Israel Drags Lebanon Back to War
After Hezbollah launched rockets toward Israel to avenge the killing of Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, Israeli airstrikes resumed across Lebanon, killing civilians and displacing some 700,000 people.
War, Emigration and the Search for Love in Lebanon
After years of war, economic collapse and mass emigration, Lebanon’s dating pool has shrunk and sectarian pressures remain deeply entrenched. Yet, from niche dating apps to blind dates, young Lebanese are finding new ways to look for love.
Beirut’s History Is Being Repaved
Incredibly, parts of Beirut’s Roman walls have survived all the intervening upheavals, human and natural, of the past two millennia. But these remnants, and the ancient tombstones the walls were lined with, are under threat — not from earthquakes or war, but the construction of a parking lot.
How a House in Mount Lebanon’s Zabbougha Survived Wars, Famine and Loss
A British-Lebanese author recalls his family's experiences of war, famine, coups and migration — and the enduring mountain home that witnessed it all.