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Photographer Zeinab Faraj, 21, found herself buried under rubble beside a dying colleague while reporting in Lebanon. She had never expected to the target of an Israeli missile attack. It was mid-April and after a month of deadly airstrikes across Lebanon, Israel agreed to a ceasefire . Much of the bombing had focused on southern Lebanon, where entire villages had been demolished. But with the truce, people were hopeful of being able to return to their homes or to see what remained. Zeinab Faraj, a 21-year-old photojournalist, decided to join Amal Khalil, 42, a newspaper reporter in Lebanon, on a trip to an area in the south of the country to document the aftermath of war. The two had worked together on a number of assignments after Khalil had seen Faraj’s work on social media and contacted her. Continue reading...

On the 43rd anniversary of the Beirut barracks terror attack that killed 241 Americans, a rabbi recalls how he and two Christian chaplains rushed to aid the wounded and comfort the survivors.

Lebanese officials were furious, claiming the city erased Gibran’s identity. Yet there was a time when Arab immigrants in the US thought ‘we were all Syrians’ This is Muslim New York: artists, thinkers and politicos on defining a new era for the city On the morning of 30 April, in the shadow of the financial district’s skyscrapers, a gold cloth slid off a bright yellow sculpture of painted stainless steel, 7ft (2 metres) tall, that spells an Arabic word: “ al Qalam ”, the pen. The monument, Al Qalam: Poets in the Park, stands in Elizabeth H Berger Plaza and honors the writers of the vanished neighborhood that New Yorkers once called Little Syria: an Arabic-speaking immigrant community that ran along Washington Street, blocks from where the World Trade Center would later rise. The monument was the first commemorative artwork unveiled under Mayor Zohran Mamdani. Little Syria produced one of the most famous poets ever to live in New York: Kahlil Gibran, author of The Prophet, a book of poetic prose that has never gone out of print. The monument honors the Pen League, the circle of writers Gibran led in Little Syria in the early 20th century. Continue reading...

Lebanon's location on the Eastern Mediterranean, its ports of Beirut and Tripoli, and its proximity to major regional markets offer trade potential.