Clashes between members of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah group and extremist factions in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ein el-Hilweh, Lebanon, continued for a third consecutive day on Monday. Despite efforts by Lebanese parties and some Palestinian factions to mediate a cease-fire, the violence persisted without respite, as reported by Adnan Rifai, a member…
Lebanon's deeply divided political class had failed to name a successor to longtime central bank chief Riad Salameh. According to Lebanese law, the first vice governor would take over in the absence of a governor.
Lebanese officials were in a last-minute scramble on Wednesday to avoid leaving the crisis-hit country s Central Bank without a leader when Governor, Riad Salameh s 30-year tenure ends next week, Reut.
The Palestinian writer Samir El-Youssef has found his identity in exile in London. Yet the idea of a homeland has always been alien to him. A portrait by Alexandra Senfft