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A Lebanese Jewish newspaper called the “Jewish Universe,” published on August 24, 1922. (Asharq Al-Awsat)

The Return of Lebanon’s Jews

by Shireen Qabbani | May 25, 2014 | Features

Beirut, Asharq Al-Awsat—There have been rumors that the doors of Beirut’s Magen Avraham Synagogue are set to reopen after more than 40 years, with Lebanon’s smallest minority moving to reclaim its religious identity and heritage in a country where, since the...

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Syrian refugees who fled the violence from the Syrian town of Flita, near Yabroud, are pictured at the border town of Arsal, in the eastern Bekaa Valley, on March 20, 2014. (Reuters/Hassan Abdallah)

Counting the Cost in Arsal

by Shireen Qabbani | Mar 24, 2014 | Features

Arsal, Asharq Al-Awsat—The Syrian town of Yabroud, located on the slopes of the Qalamoun mountains, was in the headlines recently for all the wrong reasons. The town finally fell to a joint Syrian Army–Hezbollah offensive earlier this month, part of a campaign by the...

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Lebanese policemen patrol in front the Turkish airlines office in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, on Tuesday, August 13, 2013. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Lebanon fears crime wave after kidnapping boom

by Shireen Qabbani | Mar 10, 2014 | Middle East

Beirut, Asharq Al-Awsat—Fears of crime are growing in Lebanon after a recent sharp rise in the number of kidnappings for ransom. In particular, the kidnapping of a nine-year-old boy, Michel Al-Saqr, son of Lebanese businessman Ibrahim Al-Saqr, from Zahlé in the Beqaa...

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Syrian refugees watch the Geneva-2 peace conference on television at the port city of Sidon, southern Lebanon January 22, 2014. Syria’s government and its enemies came face to face for the first time on Wednesday at a one-day peace conference in Switzerland which world powers hope can at least start a process to end three years of civil war. REUTERS/Ali Hashisho (LEBANON – Tags: POLITICS SOCIETY IMMIGRATION MEDIA CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT)

A World Away from Geneva

by Shireen Qabbani | Jan 25, 2014 | Features

Beirut, Asharq Al-Awsat—Before the Syrian crisis started, Asma’s family eked out a living farming in Deir Ezzor, eastern Syria. But when several of her family members were killed in an airstrike as the security situation in her country deteriorated, Asma, her husband...

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Syrian opposition fighters walk in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on October 11, 2012. (AFP Photo)

The Unlikely Revolutionaries

by Shireen Qabbani | Jan 3, 2014 | Features

Beirut, Asharq Al-Awsat—The Syrian conflict that erupted on March 15, 2011 has not only altered the political map of the region, it has also transformed the lives of the young men and women who joined the movement against the regime calling for freedom and dignity....