Lebanon

“There was a void in the American marketplace for authentic Lebanese flavors and food.” — By Laura DeMarco Terranean Herbs & Spices founder Tina Chamoun hasn’t stopped working since winning top honors from Cleveland Chain Reaction in December. …

Leader of Palestinian group Islamic Jihad, Ziad al-Nakhala, met Saturday with Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah in Lebanon, Anadolu reports. A statement by the Palestinian group said talks between the two sides took up regional developments and challenges facing the Palestinian resistance. The two sides agreed “to continue consultation and coordination with a view to enhancing the resistance against Israel,” the statement said.

Here are the key facts of this story, as agreed upon by ¹France 24, ²Reuters, ³Al Jazeera, ⁴Arab news, ⁵Naharnet and ⁶Itn. European investigators questioned Riad Salameh, the Governor of Lebanon’s Central Bank [BDL], probing his personal wealth and allegedly suspicious financial transfers abroad. Salameh has held his post for…

Here are the key facts of this story, as agreed upon by ¹Associated Press, ²Naharnet, ³Reuters (a), ⁴The Times of Israel and ⁵Reuters (b). The Israeli army announced that an armed man suspected of entering the country via Lebanon blew up a car before being killed by Israeli forces not…

Here are the key facts of this story, as agreed upon by ¹Associated Press, ²Naharnet, ³Reuters (a), ⁴Al Jazeera, ⁵The times of israel and ⁶Reuters (b). The Israeli army announced that an armed man suspected of entering the country via Lebanon blew up a car before being killed by Israeli…

Thanks to Literary Mama for giving me the opportunity to publish my first essay based on my memoir in progress. The Blue Duffel Bag: A Journey from Beirut to America is my way of honoring my past in order to move forward with my goal to promote the lives, struggles and accomplishments of immigrants who are using their skills and talents to preserve and promote their cultures. I hope you enjoy it. The Blue Duffel Bag: A Journey from Beirut to America The only keepsake from my childhood is a withered blue duffel bag. Growing up in war-torn Lebanon in the 1980s, I knew…literarymama.com

We have this very wrong tendency to relate people from the ancient world with the epithet of being vacuous and backward. But if you go on to explore the lives of people who have been here before us, you will find that their lives were just as fascinating as ours…

Here are the key facts of this story, as agreed upon by ¹Al Jazeera, ²Naharnet, ³Lbciv7, ⁴Al Arabiya English and ⁵ITN. Lebanon’s currency, the Lebanese pound (LBP), reached a new low on Tuesday, hitting 100K LBP to the US dollar on the parallel market, which operates outside of the official…