Mezyan is the only bar and restaurant in Beirut’s famous Hamra Street with an old Arabic ambience. It is difficult to find the restaurant as its entrance is at the dark end of a commercial building.

There is no museum in Lebanon dedicated to Beirut’s ‘Golden Age’. But since Mohammed didn’t want to just throw away these memorabilia of the old Beirut or leave them to gather dust in the basement, he ...

Four field hospitals were set up close to the Sports City Stadium, the funeral road, the burial site, and the old Beirut airport road. In addition, more than 70 ambulances and medical teams were ...

one of the more atmospheric of Beirut's numerous faux-rustic trattoria. The tiny restaurant... This cosy, dimly lit bar in the backstreets of Gemmayzeh draws a mixed clientele of young and old.

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BEIRUT—From his tiled terrace in the foothills overlooking Beirut, Mohammed Dayekh is watching a place he once loved go up in flames. A 34-year-old director and screenwriter with jet black hair ...

Ali Nassar, a 55-year-old who survived the blast ... was one of several airstrikes across Lebanon on Saturday. Southern Beirut’s Dahieh, a Hezbollah stronghold, was also hit, while strikes ...

Hassan Nasrallah was killed in an Israeli air strike in September 2024, and Israel continued attacks on Lebanon in the hours ahead of his funeral despite a ceasefire deal in place.