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The story of the escape of Lebanese businessman Carlos Ghosn from Japan has captured the imagination of filmmakers and writers. "Escape Ghosn", a comic book, by French author Michele Standjofski and Mohamad Kraytem, depicting Ghosn’s story will be published in French by Samir Editeurs in Lebanon on Tuesday.
The widely believed inability of Lebanon to control Hezbollah has sparked fears among Lebanese that the Iranian-backed group will join Hamas’ war against Israel and dragged their troubled nation back to a dark chapter in history.
AKRUN - Far beyond the brown plain and the shimmering blue waters of Qatinnah Lake, the outlines of a city can just barely be made out. "That’s Homs, that’s where there’s war," says a refugee turning away from the empty window opening. Then there’s the sound of an explosion at some distance behind h...
Weighed down by domestic crises, some Lebanese are still trying to keep an eye on the French presidential vote, the results from which will likely impact their country's prospects
The growing lack of US interest in the Middle East has prompted several Arab capitals that had broken with Bashar Al-Assad’s Syria to undertake a normalisation of their relations with his regime. All the more so as the prevailing diagnosis around the region is that he will remain in power for a good while yet. Have we been observing over the last few months a radical recomposition of the political landscape in the Middle East? Many signs tend in any case to indicate that time and events (...)