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Lebanon

June 2019

  • Mounir Restaurant, Lebanon

    Dom Joly’s foodie tour of Lebanon

    The comedian spent his childhood in Lebanon and fell in love with its cuisine. Returning to tour the country’s mountains, he finds the food as good as ever

February 2018

  • Aerial view of a table of Lebanese food and drink.

    Culture, clubbing and chaos: out with the locals in Beirut

    Amid the city’s traffic jams and power cuts, a collaborative vibe among young Beirutis is seeing cutting-edge galleries and bars spring up, along with an emerging LGBTQ scene

October 2017

  • hBellPeppersStuffedWithRiceRaisinsPineNuts

    Observer Food Monthly's 20 best recipes
    20 best Middle Eastern recipes: part 2

    Mackerel kebabs from Turkey, chicken and sumac casserole from Palestine, ful medames from Syria – we continue our culinary travels across the Middle East

May 2017

  • NN SoukElT 0077

    ‘The kitchen has no religion’: the Lebanese activist offering hope through food

    With a farmers’ market, and a string of restaurants and B&Bs, Kamal Mouzawak is helping Lebanese women and Syrian refugees to transform their lives

February 2017

  • Terry Waite looking stern in a suit.

    This much I know
    Terry Waite: ‘Time takes on new meaning when you’re deprived of natural light’

    The humanitarian, 77, on torture, fear and being sustained by hope. Interview by Angela Wintle

September 2016

  • A woman walks past street art in Beirut, Lebanon.

    Beirut’s art scene: a top 10 guide

    As the city prepares for the Beirut Art Fair, we take a tour of new galleries, museums, shops and restaurants popping up in its bohemian neighbourhoods

June 2016

  • Beit Beirut, Beirut

    On the radar
    New museum openings lead Beirut’s renaissance

    New museums and galleries in Lebanon’s capital are being matched by new design boutiques, bars and restaurants in its bohemian districts

May 2016

  • Grand Aley Hotel

    Lebanon's abandoned hotel on the hillside – in pictures

    Very little land is not under construction, or signposted as sold, in Lebanon. The battle-scarred and decaying Grand Aley Hotel stands in haunting contrast

January 2016

  • A street market in Mar Mikhael, Beirut.

    Insider's guides
    An insider's cultural guide to Beirut: 'a beautiful, rowdy, intoxicated mess'

    Instagram stories of Syrian refugees, Arabic rap and Armenian food – Nasri Atallah shows us there’s more to the capital of Lebanon than its glamorous clubs, or its troubled politics

October 2015

  • Beirut.

    Why I love …
    'Beirut is a city that refuses to die. I love its energy and resilience'

  • A gig in progress at the cabaret, music venue and bar Metro al Madina, Beirut, Lebanon

    A great little place I know
    Beirut’s funky Metro al Madina cabaret club

September 2015

  • Halwani’s new mural of the Lebanese singer and actress Sabah, in Beirut’s Hamra neighbourhood.

    Resilient cities
    How a Beirut graffiti artist is using his murals to try to unite a fragmented city

    Resilient People: Through positive depictions of Lebanese cultural figures, Yazan Halwani attempts to reclaim street art in a city scarred by civil war
  • Tripoli, Lebanon

    Insider's guides
    An insider's guide to Tripoli: Oscar Niemeyer's curves meet plays by ex-militiamen

    Lebanon’s northernmost city might have its share of battle scars, but it also has a rich history of soap-making, coffee shops full of chatter and a thriving street art scene
  • The big blue …Jeita Grotto, Lebanon.

    A great little place I know
    Going underground: the Jeita Grotto, Qornet El Hamra, Lebanon

    Artists Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige lose all sense of time and space, marvelling at the shapes and formations in this cavernous underground world

June 2015

  • Beirut cityscape.

    Mapping, Beirut-style: how to navigate a city without using any street names

    People living in the Lebanese capital, and many other cities, eschew official addresses – instead describing locations using landmarks such as cinemas and theatres that no longer actually exist. So how does that work?

May 2015

  • Holiday Inn Beirut

    A history of cities in 50 buildings
    Beirut's bullet-riddled Holiday Inn - a history of cities in 50 buildings, day 28

    The once-plush hotel stands empty as a reminder of the city’s brutal civil war, while the surrounding districts are swept up in glitzy redevelopments

January 2015

  • Beirut's Zaitunay Bay and the new waterfront.

    Urban futures with Oliver Wainwright
    Is Beirut's glitzy downtown redevelopment all that it seems?

    Two decades after civil war blew the Lebanese capital to rubble, the city centre boasts immaculately rebuilt streets lined with Gucci and Prada stores – but the whole place is strangely deserted, says Oliver Wainwright

November 2014

  • Instagram snapshots: Beirut

    Instagram snapshots
    Instagram snapshots: Beirut

    Local food, card games and retro mens’ saloons … Faisal Al Fouzan explores Beirut

March 2014

  • Hiking near Sebastia, Palestine

    Peace in the Middle East: holidays in the countryside

    Despite tensions, tourism in the Middle East is growing and, for the most part, visitors can travel safely. Daniel Adamson assesses the situation in Palestine, Israel, Lebanon, Jordan, Oman and Tunisia

April 2013

  • Lebanon cedar tree

    Walking the Lebanon Mountain Trail

    Kevin Gould: The Lebanon Mountain Trail has charm, spirit and beauty – in a country that is still bearing the scars of its long civil war

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