Passengers stage mutiny aboard Lebanese airline

Passengers ‘mutinied’ on a flight from Heathrow after a thunderstorm left them waiting for take-off for almost seven hours.

Trouble erupted after a Beirut-bound Middle East Airlines plane, with 230 passengers aboard, had to abort a 5pm take-off on Thursday, having already missed its original 1pm departure slot. (more…)

Beirut’s Streets: A Playground for Children Beggars

By Diana Nemeh
Drive down any congested street in Beirut on any given day in any given weather and you will see children running around.

Beirut landmark to be restored as Beit Beirut museum

By Chirine Lahoud
In the area of Achrafieh now called Sodeco, once known as Nasra, there sits a gorgeous ruin.

Baroud: Lebanon’s Napoleon of Traffic

By Diana Nemeh
And the title goes to … Ziyad Baroud, minister of Interior and Municipalities … applause?

Things Are Happening in Hamra

By Seth Sherwood
Take one of Beirut’s battered 1970s Mercedes taxis through the city center and you’ll chance across plenty of gold-plated names these days.

Citizens march to save Beirut’s architectural identity

Around 150 Lebanese men and women marched late Saturday in Beirut’s downtown area to pay homage to the memory of the old buildings and houses that used to represent Beirut’s heritage and protest against further destruction. (more…)

Beirut is the 10th most expensive city

Dubai has fallen from the ranks of the world’s most expensive places to live in a development that could harm the city’s economic recovery, a survey has revealed. (more…)

Top Chefs reinventing Lebanese cuisine in Beirut

By Florence Fabricant
After more than 30 years of civil war, invasion and occupation, Lebanon is prospering again, and the downtown area of Beirut, the capital, has risen from the rubble. Among more than 400 projects are a new waterfront area, parks, world-class hotels, high-end shops and restored monuments, churches, mosques and even the synagogue.

Burning tires block Beirut Airport in Hezbollah stronghold

Over a hundred Dahiyeh residents used burning tires to block a public road leading to Beirut’s Rafik Hariri International Airport for around two hours on Friday in southern suburb of the capital, a Hezbollah stronghold.

The angry mob of 150 resorted to blocking the main roundabout of the Airport Highway with burning tires, reminiscent of the start of Hezbollah’s Beirut siege in May 2008. (more…)

Beirut residents block airport road over power cuts | Update

Update: Security forces extinguished the burning tires and re-opened access to the airport highway. Protesters then proceeded to block the Bir Hasan intersection with burning tires.

Lebanese citizens took to the streets on Friday to protest against the government’s recurring power outages. (more…)