The explosion that gouged a crater in Beirut's portside and sent a devastating shockwave through the city would have been a catastrophe for any country. The city is no stranger to conflict. On social ...

Residents of Lebanon’s capital struggle to find material and cash to repair the damage—and to revive the city’s spirit The shockwave unleashed last August by one of the biggest nonnuclear explosions ...

On the day of the Beirut explosion two months ago, 54-year-old Nabil Debs was busy planning the opening of his boutique hotel which had been in the works for the past decade.

With a silent march, moving testimonies, and the symbolic planting of 75 trees in honor of the victims, Lebanon commemorated on Aug. 4 the fifth anniversary of the devastating explosion that rocked ...

Aaliya's Books was a beloved bookshop, cafe and community hub that hugged one side of Gourard Street in Gemmayze, a fashionable, bohemian neighbourhood in Beirut near the city's port. On August 4, ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) condemned Lebanese authorities on Monday over their continued inaction concerning the devastating explosion in Beirut’s port on August 4, 2020. The blast, one of the largest ...

In the days that followed the Beirut port explosion, Shady Rizk played a video he had taken on his phone again and again.

This paper examines the intricate dynamics of urban resilience and recovery in the context of ongoing and overlapping crises, with Beirut serving as a focal case. Following the 2020 port explosion, ...

CLAIM: Footage from the Beirut explosion shows a missile striking the site just before the blast. THE FACTS: The video, which was circulating on YouTube and Twitter, has been manipulated to add what ...

Beirut was, in many ways, fulfilling for him, but on a personal level, he missed Pakistan terribly. My mother told me that ...