Tag: Lebanon

(Lebanon) Lebanon’s public ride-share drivers fear livelihood crash (Al Jazeera)

 Kareem Chehayeb writes for Al Jazeera: For the first time in more than 10 years, Khaled Abou Sleiman recently stopped driving his public ride-share van...

(Lebanon) Can youth bring about radical reform?

Al Jazeera writes: In the third episode of Generation Change, we travel to Lebanon to see how young organisers are mobilising to halt one of...

(Lebanon) The Lebanon’s tragedy

Jacques Neriah writes for JCPOA: For months, Lebanon has been enduring a dire economic situation to such an extent that Lebanon’s middle class has...

Lebanon – Lebanon MPs stall lifting immunity in port blast probe (Al Jazeera)

Lebanese legislators on Friday held up an investigation into the Beirut port blast, less than a month before its first anniversary, demanding more proof before...

Qatar/Lebanon – Qatar to provide aid for Lebanese troops as crisis deepens (Al Jazeera)

Qatar has said it will provide the Lebanese armed forces with 70 tonnes of food a month as Lebanon seeks assistance in the face...

Lebanon – What would the collapse of Lebanon’s army mean? (Anchal Vohra, Al Jazeera)

A Lebanese air force chopper flies over a blurry landscape of green fields and snow-peaked mountains, promising the tourists a view of the Levantine...

Lebanon – Lebanon hikes fuel prices by more than a third as consumers reel (Al Jazeera)

Lebanon’s energy ministry dealt a serious blow to the already besieged pocketbooks of the country’s struggling consumers on Tuesday by raising fuel prices by more than...

Lebanon – ‘Catastrophe’ warning as Lebanese officials lift fuel subsidies (Kareem Chehayeb, Al Jazeera)

Caretaker Prime Minister Hasan Diab approved a plan to decrease crucial fuel subsidies, a move observers warned could unleash a “social catastrophe” as the...

Lebanon – Several injured in Lebanon protests over plunging currency (Al Jazeera)

Several protesters were injured in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli on Saturday in demonstrations held amid escalating tensions over the government’s decision to...

Lebanon – Independent third-party monitoring: A risk management tool for fiduciary assurance in Lebanon (Jocelyne Jabbour, Rima Koteiche, World Bank blogs)

Lebanon is currently facing a wave of crises, unprecedented in magnitude, with devastating socio-economic effects, all further exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Independent third-party monitoring:...

Israel/Lebanon – Israel-Lebanon Relations through the Prism of the Maritime Border (INSS)

Israel-Lebanon Relations through the Prism of the Maritime Border - YouTube

Israel/Palestine/Lebanon/Hezbollah – The war on Gaza further exposes Hezbollah’s hypocritical duplicity (Al Arabiya)

Makram Rabah For someone who never misses a chance to threaten Israel with eternal destruction, Hassan Nasrallah and his Iran-sponsored militia have stood idle as...

Lebanon – ‘Little hope left’: Lebanon’s paralysis and a collapsing state (Al Jazeera)

International community fails to speed up government formation in Lebanon, even with the economy in meltdown. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/5/24/little-hope-left-lebanons-paralysis-and-a-collapsing-state

Lebanon – Hezbollah’s al-Qard al-Hasan and Lebanon’s Banking Sector (FDD)

Tony Badran, Emanuele Ottolenghi In December 2020, an anonymous hacking group called SpiderZ hacked the al-Qard al-Hasan Association (AQAH) – the financial arm of the...

Lebanon – Lebanon’s army chief tries to draw line between military and rulers as crisis bites (Middle East Eye)

Kareem Chehayeb General Joseph Aoun is attempting to shield his forces from the economic meltdown's blowback, and maybe even position himself for a run for...

Lebanon/Syrian Refugees – Why Syrian refugees in Lebanon are a crisis within a crisis (Brookings)

Omer Karasapan and Sajjad Shah Lebanon is on the brink of collapse. It has experienced a self-inflicted financial and economic meltdown, the pandemic, and the massive blast at the Port...