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Society - Lebanese youth and nocturnal jobs
By Pascale Youssef
For some time now, many of the Lebanese youth have been working in the hospitality business throughout the night and pursuing their university studies or other employment during the day. However, how does this nightshift arrangement affect their...Full Story>> |
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Society - Villages prepare for return of prisoners from Israeli prisons
By Jihad SEQLAOUI
Villages in south Lebanon have prepared a hero's welcome for local men captured two years ago and the bodies of Hezbollah fighters due to return home under a prisoner swap with Israel. The prisoner swap also covers the release of the last of the...Full Story>> |
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Society - Lebanon village still scarred by Israeli onslaught
By Jihad SEQLAOUI
Hebrew graffiti still marks the battle-scarred buildings in southern Lebanon's Marun ar-Ras village, as locals struggle to rebuild their homes two years after the war with Israel.Full Story>> |
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Women - Desperate, alone and pregnant: why so many turn to abortion
By Lea Fares
Abortion is illegal in Lebanon and permitted only when the baby poses a threat to the mother's health. But like the use of outlawed narcotics, illegal abortions still take place and are not as uncommon as one might think in such a conservative...Full Story>> |
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Society - Vacation Workbooks: the Pros and Cons
By Élodie Morel Lebbos
Chronicler Nada Chaoul brilliantly describes this issue in her short story entitled "Intelligent Vacations", an excerpt of which is presented hereinafter: "The most important thing about vacation homework was to begin them early, as...Full Story>> |
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Society - Lebanese feast on 'buns and guns' in Hezbollah fiefdom
By Rana Moussaoui
Behind a barricade of sandbags, Ali devours a "Magnum 357" as his friend Hussein tucks into a giant "B52". Welcome to "Buns and Guns" restaurant in the heartland of south Beirut controlled by Hezbollah. Lebanon's...Full Story>> |
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Human Rights - Lebanon’s forgotten children
By Jocelyne Zablit
Officials estimate that at least 100,000 children, or one in 10 up to 18 years of age, work in Lebanon, mainly in the agriculture sector or as mechanics as well as in jewelery workshops and sweatshops.Most of those child labourers hail from the...Full Story>> |
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Society - Downtown Beirut sit-in to a sudden end
By George Eid
Suddenly it began and suddenly it ended. Lebanese woke up today on the sound of a sit-in being dismantled. A sit-in that many Lebanese thought would never end at least not before the end of PM Saniora’s government, which was the main condition...Full Story>> |
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Society - Ordinary Lebanese hope for a solution to country's woes
By Paul KATTAN
The violence-weary Lebanese are hoping that their leaders will return home from Arab-brokered talks in Qatar armed with a solution to heal a feud that has plunged the country into deadly chaos. Rival Lebanese leaders are meeting in Doha in a bid to...Full Story>> |
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Society - Sectarian tensions seethe under Beirut calm
By Rima Abushakra
As life slowly crept back to normal in west Beirut on Sunday after Hezbollah withdrew its Shiite militants from the streets, it was clear that deep anger lay beneath the calm with real fears of an irreparable fallout between Lebanon's Sunni and...Full Story>> |
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