Greater Lebanon was established in September 1920 in a post-war redrawing of Middle Eastern borders. [Assistant Professor Nadya Sbaiti from the American University of Beirut, saying:] "So, historians ...

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Looking back on his childhood in the newly declared state of Lebanon nearly a century ago, Salah Tizani says the country was set on course for calamity from the start by colonial ...

When my 91-year-old grandmother heard the explosion, she thought there must have been an accident at the local hospital. The sound came from the direction of the port of Beirut where, in the 1970s, my ...

BEIRUT, Lebanon — Restoration of Beirut’s only synagogue will be completed in October and religious services will be held there in 2011 for the first time in more than three decades, the leader of the ...