Following an outcry over deadly Israeli airstrikes on the two villages of Ansar and Deir Zahrani in South Lebanon that killed 11 people and wounded 19, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu...
Sahar Mandour is a Lebanese-Egyptian novelist and journalist, born in Beirut to a Lebanese mother and an Egyptian father. She studied psychology at Saint Joseph University and earned a master’s...
In the hills of Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn lie composer Leonard Bernstein, artist Samuel Morse, and novelist Paul Auster. Among the roughly 570,000 deceased resting there, one lesser-known...
Reacting to two deadly Israeli strikes on the towns of Ansar and Deir Zahrani overnight from Friday into Saturday morning, Hezbollah threatened Israel with an ‘’appropriate response’’ if it...
Dear reader, We're in the middle of a heatwave, and I'm not sure my brain is still working. It evaporated some time around the beginning of August, along with my appetite. The second the...
Since its founding in 1948 (the Palestinian Nakba) Israel has relied on especially strong support in the United States, based both on the strategic alliance between the two countries and a broadly...
Three former warlords, who had become commanders in the Syrian army, have just lost direct control over their troops. Mohammad al-Jassem, known as Abu Amsha, who headed the 62nd Division, has been...
After the adoption of the new media law in Parliament on Tuesday, a wave of protests erupted for various reasons, notably among Lebanon's Press and Editors' Syndicates, which held a press...
19:22 Beirut Time Netanyahu says Israeli strikes targeted Hezbollah headquarters in response to attack that wounded three Israeli soldiers Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu...
An oil tanker operated by Emirati state-owned oil company Adnoc was attacked Friday evening while crossing the Strait of Hormuz, the company said Saturday in a statement cited by the official WAM...
Tehran reaffirmed Saturday that the Strait of Hormuz “will remain Iranian” after U.S. President Donald Trump claimed the strategic passage would become part of U.S. territory once Iran is...
Lebanon is moving at two different paces and levels: one is the effort to save the ongoing negotiations and discussions related to implementing the “pilot zone” model, and the other is the battle...
SOUTH LEBANON — An Israeli airstrike overnight Friday to Saturday on Ansar, in a region of southern Lebanon spared for two months, killed seven people, while another strike in Deir Zahrani killed...
Here’s Johnny! Sorry. I’ve just always wanted to say that to an audience. Welcome back to “Breakfast in Bed,” where my half-baked jokes and list of curated stories are worth the (occasional)...
سحر مندور روائية وصحافية لبنانية–مصرية، وُلدت في بيروت لأم لبنانية وأب مصري. درست علم النفس في جامعة القديس يوسف، وحصلت على ماجستير في الدراسات الإعلامية من SOAS (جامعة لندن). عملت في جريدة...
