Sprinter Aziza Sbaity Was Once Questioned Over Her Lebanese Passport at The Airport

Imagine being the country's fastest female sprinter and one of its most celebrated athletes, and being interrogated at the airport by a security officer and questioned over the validity of your Lebanese passport. That's what happened to Aziza Sbaity in 2018 on her way back to Beirut from the 2018 Arab Championship. In an interview with Daraj, Aziza who is Lebanon's only black female athlete, describes her encounter with the female security officer at Beirut's…

Stray Bullet Shootings in Lebanon Kills & Injures at Least 23 People Yearly

According to a study by Information International, a Beirut-based independent regional research & consultancy firm, stray bullet shootings kill 8 people and injure 15 yearly in Lebanon. The numbers are based on data acquired from the security forces between 2013 and 2023. The latest victim of stray bullet shooting was a young girl who was playing in her school's playground. Naya Hanna was hit in the head and succumbed to her wounds after 23 days.…
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Leading Lebanese Media Issue Powerful Joint Statement Against Hate Speech

4 weeks ago
LBC, MTV, Al Jadeed, Annahar, Nidaa Al Watan, L’Orient Lejour, Raseef22, Daraj, the Legal Agenda and other leading newspapers & media outlets in Lebanon issued a powerful joint statement yesterday condemning the “hate speech and ...
Lebanon

Riad Salameh Making Sure He Remains Untouchable

1 month ago
Lebanon’s former Central Bank governor left his office with a ZaffĂ© and is nowhere to be found ever since. He’s supposedly still in the country given the travel bans imposed on him and international arrest ...
Lebanon

U.S. Treasury Sanctions BDL Ex-Governor Riad Salameh

1 month ago
Reuters Iraq Bureau Chief reported this morning that the U.S. Treasury has sanctioned former Lebanese central bank governor Riad Salameh, along with his brother Raja, his son Nadi, his aide Marianne Howayek and his lover ...
Lebanon

Lebanese Government OKs Seven-Fold Increase in Ogero Internet Fees

1 month ago
The Lebanese government met today and agreed to increase the internet fees for Ogero users by 7 folds, which means that if you’re paying 90,000 LL for a 50mb (100GB quota) connection, you will soon ...
Lebanon

What’s Next After Salameh?

1 month ago
Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh left office today after 30 years on the job. Unfortunately, him leaving doesn’t change much as Lebanon’s caretake government has failed to appoint a permanent successor, and Salameh’s deputy Wassim ...
Lebanon

Lebanese Ambassador to France Rami Adwan Accused of Rape & Violence

3 months ago
Rami Adwan, Lebanon’s ambassador to France, is currently being investigated for rape & sexual assault following complaints by two former embassy employees. One of the employees, named Ava, claimed that she was raped in May ...
Lebanon

Latest Aerial Shots of The New US Embassy Awkar Campus

4 months ago
The new US Embassy campus in Awkar is starting to take shape, as seen from the latest photos shared on the embassy’s FB page following a visit by US Ambassador to Lebanon Dorothy C. Shea. ...
Lebanon

UC Davis Starts Memorial Fund for Karim Abou Najm

4 months ago
In case you’ve missed this terrible news, a 20-year-old UC Davis Lebanese student was stabbed to death in a city park. Karim Abou Najm was biking home from an academic awards ceremony in Davis when ...
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