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BBC News By Eloise Alanna image captionMaamoul, a festival favourite, is becoming too expensive for many families For Greek Orthodox Christians celebrating Easter, the tradition of making or buying maamoul biscuits plays a key role - but this year things are very different. The Lebanese take pride in these confections. As well as Easter, they are made during Eid al-Fitr, at the end of Ramadan, and Muslims and Druze enjoy them for Eid al-Adha. Rita Stambouli is Greek Orthodox and lives in Zahlé, a town about an hour's drive east of Beirut in the Bekaa valley. When I visit, she is preparing...

Lebanon Easter biscuit woes symbolise crumbling economy © BBC Maamoul, a festival favourite, is becoming too expensive for many families For Greek Orthodox Christians celebrating Easter, the tradition of making or buying maamoul biscuits plays a key role - but this year things are very different. The Lebanese take pride in these confections. As well as Easter, they are made during Eid al-Fitr, at the end of Ramadan, and Muslims and Druze enjoy them for Eid al-Adha. Rita Stambouli is Greek Orthodox and lives in Zahlé, a town about an hour's drive east of Beirut in the Bekaa valley. When...

The mountainous town of Bsharre, in northern Lebanon, 02/08/2020 (Silvia Mazzocchin) BEDAWWI — In a decade of war in Syria, Nora was displaced ten times. The 42-year-old woman dodged death as bombs fell within earshot multiple times, fleeing between Idlib, where she lived with her husband – now disappeared – and Damascus, her city of origin. “In Idlib, we stayed three years under the bombs; we slept under olive trees, without knowing what would happen to us,” she said.  A year and a half ago, Nora fled to Lebanon to join her two adult children in Bsharre, an idyllic mountainous to...

Lebanon’s racism is fanning the flames of violence towards Syrian refugees Frans Timmermans and Lebanese Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil.jpg (Image by Creative Commons Genérica de Atribución/Compartir-Igual 2.0) As Lebanon celebrated Christmas, a Syrian refugee camp in Miniyeh in the north of Lebanon was attacked by a group of local youths who set fire to tents amid clashes with residents. The number of violent incidents against displaced communities living in the country has grown steadily in recent mo...