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Mohamed Safadi. Photograph: Cynthia Karam/File Photo/Reuters
Lebanese protesters rise in anger at nomination of Safadi

Almost one month since the start of their uprising, Lebanese have poured scorn on social media, blocked a major highway and mounted a protest at the h(...)

Anti-government protesters block a main highway in Beirut, Lebanon, on Monday. Photograph: Bilal Hussein/AP
Roads blocked across Lebanon as wave of protests continues

Protesters blocked roads in Beirut and other parts of Lebanon on Monday, pressing a wave of demonstrations against the ruling elite that have plunged (...)

Syrians visit the pavilions at the Damascus International Fair in Damascus. Photograph: Youssef Badawi/EPA
Syria struggles to recover as it fights an economic war

This year’s Damascus International Fair – a commercial exhibition that resumed in 2017 after a five-year hiatus due to the Syrian civil war – was a gr(...)

Changing course: teenage girls at a workshop that Akkar Network for Development hopes will help them develop some independence
Marwa is 16. She is engaged, just like four of her classmates

Impact Journalism Day (June 25th, 2016) focuses on solutions-based journalism. Fifty-five leading media organisations from 50 countries, including Th(...)