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Real estate, stocks, eurobonds: Lebanese banks multiply offers to settle deposits

As repayment deadlines remain distant, offers to large depositors to convert their frozen assets are multiplying, significantly lightening banks' balance sheets.

Mounir YOUNES

7 p.m. recap: New attack on Riyadh airport; Houthis report strike on Sanaa airport

Zeina ANTONIOS

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Oct. 7 hero Youssef al-Ziadna watches as Israel demolishes his Bedouin neighborhood

Emmanuel HADDAD

STORY

In search of Mais al-Jabal’s lost iris

Clara HAGE

SOUTH LEBANON

2 killed in olive groves in southern Lebanon, including 1 by Israeli artillery fire

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From Saada to Bab al-Mandeb: How the Houthis became a regional power

Noura DOUKHI

LEBANON

ISF seizes hundreds of kilograms of explosives at Dahr al-Baidar checkpoint, arrests two

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Discover how 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate caused the explosion at the port of Beirut on August 4, 2020, and the results of seven years of investigation.

Real estate, stocks, eurobonds: Lebanese banks multiply offers to settle deposits

7 p.m. recap: New attack on Riyadh airport; Houthis report strike on Sanaa airport

Oct. 7 hero Youssef al-Ziadna watches as Israel demolishes his Bedouin neighborhood

In search of Mais al-Jabal’s lost iris

2 killed in olive groves in southern Lebanon, including 1 by Israeli artillery fire

From Saada to Bab al-Mandeb: How the Houthis became a regional power

ISF seizes hundreds of kilograms of explosives at Dahr al-Baidar checkpoint, arrests two

August 4, 2020: Anatomy of a foretold disaster

Pope Leo XIV announces scholarships for Christian students from Lebanon, Syria and Iraq

2 p.m. recap: Houthis renew threats against Saudi airports; 1 killed by unexploded Israeli munition in south Lebanon

Houthi strike on Saudi airport kills 12, worst attack on kingdom in a decade

Geagea to L’Orient-Le Jour: Dahr al-Baidar incident is the most dangerous in years

In Hamra, Fada al-Madina opens its doors with theater, laughter and a trip to Mars

$200 million from Iran for Hezbollah: A respite, not a way out of the crisis

Syria: From revolution to riches

Berri and Salam draw closer, driven by mutual interests

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Editors’ picks

Sharaa’s ‘zero problems’ diplomacy is already hitting its limits

Lebanese government launches tender to inventory and assess telecoms public assets

Irtijal 26: Three days and an array of stimulating sounds

Lebanon

2 killed in olive groves in southern Lebanon, including 1 by Israeli artillery fire

In search of Mais al-Jabal’s lost iris

Geagea to L’Orient-Le Jour: Dahr al-Baidar incident is the most dangerous in years

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Hacking Lebanese Politics #38: Where do the legal cases against Riad Salameh stand?

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Middle East

7 p.m. recap: New attack on Riyadh airport; Houthis report strike on Sanaa airport

Pope Leo XIV announces scholarships for Christian students from Lebanon, Syria and Iraq

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Real estate, stocks, eurobonds: Lebanese banks multiply offers to settle deposits

Lebanese government launches tender to inventory and assess telecoms public assets

Experia opens its doors and puts Lebanese tech in the spotlight

Culture

In Hamra, Fada al-Madina opens its doors with theater, laughter and a trip to Mars

Al fresco girlhood, ballpoint wizardry, and an Anne Carson win

Exhibitions, performances, and concerts: For 10 days, Tripoli's culture scene takes center stage

Videos

August 4, 2020: Anatomy of a foretold disaster

How Israel razed entire villages in southern Lebanon

Targets, victims, areas hit: What do we know about the Israeli-American strikes on Iran?

Diaspora

Yes to demands, no to violence: Lebanese students in France weigh in on school protests

Lebanese diaspora: What about your life abroad remains deeply Lebanese?

A Château Byblos on the Nile: How the Lebanese revolutionized Egyptian wine

Opinion

General amnesty law in Lebanon: 'Forgiving is not forgetting'

Global governance initiative: China’s answer for a world of transformation and turbulences

Despite its flaws, Lebanon’s Media Law is a win decades in the making

Voices from the Middle East

Syria: From revolution to riches

سورية: من الثورة إلى الثروة

Hezbollah and the myth of the 'qabaday'

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Tech

Mistral seeks to catch up in AI race, Anthropic moves to protect Claude

Familiarizing a million Lebanese with AI: An ambitious project backed by the UAE

AI: A Trump deal with tech giants, an ECB warning and new models highlight the week

Shabjdeed vs Saint Levant and the politics of diss tracks

Who are the ‘performative males’ performing for?

'Ana 'aamla diet' and other TikTok virals

The Inbox: Readers’ corner

Welcome to the jungle: Why Lebanon never learned how to drive

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