Rabee Jaber’s novel, The Mehlis Report, published in Arabic in 2005 and now expertly translated by Kareem James Abu-Zeid, takes place in the summer and fall following Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri’s assassination. The novel evokes this unsettled period with frightening precision. It reads like a historical novel that happens to be about the very recent past. Lebanon’s Prime Minister Rafik Hariri was
Lebanese soldiers helped injured colleagues after fighting with followers of the radical Sunni cleric Sheik Ahmad al-Assir in the southern city of Sidon.Credit...Mohammed Zaatari/Associated Press SIDON, Lebanon — Tanks careened through this seaside city, gunfire crackled along near-deserted streets and thick smoke rose from the hilltop neighborhood where followers of a radical Sunni cleric clashed
In the year 2000, the Israelis withdrew after having occupied the south of Lebanon for twenty-two years. Because of the occupation, until the year 2000, I had gone through my entire life without ever having visited the village of my ancestors, Hasbaya. The village where my Grandpa Mohammad and my father grew up. My Grandpa Mohammad built our house in Hasbaya on top of a hill. It was a typical two-
The central square of Lebanon's Resistance Tourist Landmark, known to some as Hezbollahland. After several successive family summer vacations in California, this year my two grown sons wanted something a little more adventurous. We settled on Lebanon, a country I’ve always loved to visit. It actually has a lot in common with California—natural beauty, majestic mountains, the sea, great food, a fab
ON the night of Sept. 16, 1982, the Israeli military allowed a right-wing Lebanese militia to enter two Palestinian refugee camps in Beirut. In the ensuing three-day rampage, the militia, linked to the Maronite Christian Phalange Party, raped, killed and dismembered at least 800 civilians, while Israeli flares illuminated the camps’ narrow and darkened alleyways. Nearly all of the dead were women,
Abu Rimon, right, a militiaman in an Alawite area of Tripoli, Lebanon, near graffiti depicting Hafez al-Assad, father of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria.Credit...Moises Saman for The New York Times RAMA, Lebanon — As Syria’s civil war drags on, the recent arrest of a former Lebanese government minister allied with the Syrian leadership on charges that he planned a campaign of bombings and assas
The prospect of a dam financed by Iran in solidly Christian Tannourine is popular, but residents do not want Iranians moving in to build it.Credit...Ed Ou for The New York Times TANNOURINE, Lebanon — The Islamic republic of Iran recently offered to build a dam in this scenic alpine village, high in the Christian heartland of Lebanon. Farther south, in the dense suburbs of Beirut, Iranian largess h
A portrait of Sheik Abbas Musawi, a former leader of Hezbollah who was killed by Israel in 1992, in Baalbek, Lebanon.Credit...Ed Ou for The New York Times BEIRUT, Lebanon — Mazen, a carpenter who organizes protests against President Bashar al-Assad in a suburb of Damascus, Syria, has torn down the posters of Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, that once decorated his car and shop. Like many
Balance of fearSyria’s crisis is touching Lebanon, but for now calm prevails THERE is no love lost between Alawite and Sunni quarters of Tripoli, Lebanon's second-largest city. It lies just half an hour by car from the border with Syria, where violence increasingly pits the sects against each other. Here, bullets have often flown across the road that divides them, the aptly named Syria Street. In
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