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Najib
Nov 24, 2021 07:12
UNICEF released a survey recently highlighting the dramatic deterioration of living conditions in the past months and the impact this ongoing crisis is having on children. The survey mentions that nearly 8 in 10 Lebanese live in poverty and 36 per cent in extreme poverty, knowing that the UN had estimated recently that 78 percent of the Lebanese lives below the poverty line – some three million people – with 36 percent of the population…
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Najib
Nov 14, 2021 03:06
Habib Emile Dergham, a 26-year old Lebanese photographer from Bouar, has won the "Paris Match" 2021 Grand Prize for Photography, a competition that includes over 50,000 participants from all over France. Dergham, who is pursuing a Masters 2 in fashion photography at SPEOS Institute in Paris, submitted several photos from his book “A Cry of Silence", that was inspired from the 2019 Lebanon protests. The winner of the competition gets a check for five thousand…
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