Thousands of children in Lebanon are denied full access to education, healthcare and residency because they do not have Lebanese citizenship. Lebanese women cannot pass on their nationality to their children and in the event of separation, it is the

A lone yellow kite greeted the visitors approaching Jal al-Baher Beach in Tyre on Tuesday morning. Soon, however, three more buses with Palestinian children from camps all over Lebanon arrived to participate in Tuesday's kite flying festival. Around noon, a

Firemen in the Aley region brought a large forest fire under control on Wednesday amid the danger of exploding cluster bombs and land mines, a civil defense official said. Flames swept through the area near the summer resort town of

For Fawzi Yassin, who graduated this year with a degree in computer science, academic standards were not his only motivation for choosing to study at the American University of Beirut (AUB) - an accommodating attitude was a high priority.

Nearly 750 students graduated from Balamand University on Monday, as the university celebrated the 20th anniversary of its creation. The commencement ceremony was held at Balamand's main campus in Koura, North Lebanon. In addition to the university's administrators and the