People inspect the destruction at the site of an overnight Israeli air attack on the Gouraud Barracks neighbourhood of Lebanon's eastern city of Baalbek, in the vicinity of the ancient Roman ruins ...
The city of about 80,000 overlooks the Bekaa Valley in eastern Lebanon. Baalbek is considered part of the Hezbollah group’s ...
Lebanon — From a hilltop schoolyard in this northeastern town, some of the tens of thousands who had fled Baalbek watched the fireball from an Israeli strike fill the sky above their ancient ...
In just a few hours, two Israeli airstrikes obliterated landmarks that embodied centuries of southern Lebanon’s rich history ... not just a block of concrete. Ancient olive trees, historic markets, ...
“The Iranian period is finished, I think,” Rifi told me. “In Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Yemen.” ...
Pope Benedict XVI plants a sapling Lebanese cedar tree in the gardens of the presidential palace with Lebanon's then-President ... spoken by Jesus Christ. This ancient language has been ...
In the adjoining room, my little sister was listening to Fairuz’s “Li Beirut”, that wartime lament that was played everywhere after the 2020 explosion, at once love letter and requiem for the city.
Indeed, both trees and the forest feature in his new ... “We wrote The World to Come originally as lyrics, partly rooted in the ancient cedar wood forest of Gilgamesh, and partly inspired ...
The ancient ... trees and collapsed concrete. Most of the demolitions there appear to have begun on or around Oct. 14. From Oct. 16 to at least Sunday, the Golani Brigade, which first entered ...
For example, one estimate is that one third of the Roman empire’s entire revenue was generated by taxes on trade with ancient India ... gods of Palmyra and cedar from Lebanon.
If you’re looking for something more hefty, walk the entire WPT to the Ancient Cedars Loop and feast your eyes on the tops of some century-old trees like Sitka spruce, western hemlock, and giant red ...
INDIGENOUS Soul: Gaza And Me, by Nada Shawa, is an extraordinary book – a first-hand report of experiences none of us would wish to have or to compel upon another, and yet which we all share, as human ...