Stephanie d'Arc Taylor

Vol­un­teers are work­ing to re­store the old the­atre, closed for more than two decades, be­fore Au­gust’s grand re­open­ing.

Theeb, a ‘Bedouin West­ern’ that has en­joyed in­ter­na­tion­al ac­claim, is nom­i­nat­ed for best for­eign lan­guage film of 2015.

De­spite sig­nif­i­cant chal­lenges, star­tups are mak­ing progress in Lebanon’s im­pov­er­ished sec­ond city.

Prox­im­i­ty of hard­line Is­lamist fight­ers has many hop­ing for a Syr­i­an gov­ern­ment war win.

Even mod­er­ates back group with hard-line fight­ers de­spite rad­i­cal ide­ol­o­gy in ab­sence of West­ern help to top­ple As­sad.