Kareem Chehayeb

Most of Lebanon’s pub­lic schools are closed as teach­ers de­mand high­er wages and stipends to earn a liv­ing wage.

Bulk of state fund­ing will come from re­gres­sive poli­cies, ac­cord­ing to a 2022 draft bud­get shared with Al Jazeera.

Dozens of fam­i­lies in an IDP camp in north­west­ern Syr­ia have been trapped for two days amid a win­ter storm.

Cash-strapped agency launch­es emer­gency fund­ing ap­peal, says Pales­tin­ian refugees in Lebanon are strug­gling to sur­vive.

Tak­ing the COVID vac­cine in Lebanon re­mains a per­son­al choice de­spite doc­u­ment­ing a surg­ing num­ber of dai­ly cas­es.

Lebanon’s trans­port unions de­mand the gov­ern­ment sub­sidise their fuel prices and pro­vide cash as­sis­tance.

Dozens of Lebanese and Syr­i­an peo­ple at­tempt­ed to sail to Italy in Oc­to­ber, but they nev­er reached their des­ti­na­tion.

Salameh is un­der in­ves­ti­ga­tion in Lebanon and Eu­rope for al­leged fi­nan­cial mis­con­duct in­clud­ing mon­ey laun­der­ing.

With elec­tions sched­uled for May, few see mean­ing­ful so­lu­tions on the hori­zon to halt the pound’s down­ward spi­ral.

Has­san Nas­ral­lah ac­cus­es Sau­di Ara­bia of spread­ing ISIL ide­ol­o­gy across the re­gion amid ris­ing po­lit­i­cal ten­sions.