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Jamie Prentis

Jamie Prentis

Lebanon correspondent
Beirut
Jamie is a British journalist and has been a correspondent at the Beirut bureau since March 2022, where he covers Lebanese affairs and the wider region. Before that he was a reporter at the London bureau for nearly four years. Before joining The National he worked for the Libya Herald and covered the country for outlets including The Times.
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Gebran Bassil, leader of the Free Patriotic Movement political party in Lebanon. Matt Kynaston / The National
ExclusiveGebran Bassil on leading Lebanon's ‘positive opposition’ and holding government to account

Mr Bassil's Free Patriotic Movement not part of the cabinet for the first time in nearly 20 years

MENAFebruary 13, 2025
Former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafic Hariri. AFP
DocumentaryIs Lebanon finally nearing closure on Hariri’s assassination?

Politicians and experts discuss enduring legacy of the killing of former Lebanese leader

MENAFebruary 13, 2025
Rafic Hariri delivers a rousing a speech as Lebanon's prime minister, in Beirut in May 1998. He would be dead within seven years. Reuters JS/SB
Aftershocks of Hariri’s killing still felt in Lebanon 20 years on

The 20th anniversary of the killing comes at a critical juncture for Lebanon and the wider Middle East

MENAFebruary 13, 2025
Families return with the Lebanese army to the southern village of Marwahin in January. AFP
Israel says troops will stay in southern Lebanon after ceasefire deadline

Second delay to withdrawal will be fiercely opposed by the Lebanese government and Hezbollah

MENAFebruary 12, 2025
Lebanon's President Joseph Aoun, centre, meets Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, left, and Prime Minister-designate Nawaf Salam. AFP
Lebanon forms first government since 2022 to tackle ceasefire challenge

Administration formed under international pressure will be a 'unified team' with no party able to obstruct decisions

MENAFebruary 08, 2025
Hassan Nasrallah, the late Hezbollah leader who will be buried on February 23, speaks in Iran at an undisclosed date and location. AFP
Nasrallah to be buried in Beirut’s southern suburbs

Funeral for long-time leader of Lebanese group has been delayed for five months over security concerns

MENAFebruary 03, 2025
Work taking place on a government palace building in Beirut, as Lebanon's Prime Minister designate Nawaf Salam works to form a cabinet. EPA
Finance Ministry at the heart of Lebanon’s convoluted cabinet consultations

Incoming Prime Minister Nawaf Salam has vowed that ‘no ministry is exclusive to a certain sect’

MENAJanuary 30, 2025
A wounded man shot while trying to reach the southern Lebanese village of Kfar Kila is taken to an ambulance at a Lebanese army checkpoint in Burj Al Muluk. AFP
Two killed and several injured in Israeli shooting in south Lebanon

More than 20 were also killed by Israeli fire on Sunday as they sought to return to home villages

MENAJanuary 27, 2025
A man carries an injured person in Burj Al Muluk, near the southern Lebanese village of Kfar Kila, where Israeli forces remained on the ground after a deadline for their withdrawal passed. Reuters
22 people killed including a Lebanese soldier by Israeli fire

Several civilians trying to return home in the south were also injured by Israeli shooting

MENAJanuary 26, 2025
Ali Arnaout holds up a charred sign proclaiming the Palestinian heritage of the food served at his now ruined restaurant in Nabatieh. Mohamad Zanaty for The National
Postcard from NabatiehA city slowly stirring back to life after Israel’s brutal war on south Lebanon

Hundreds of businesses in the city were destroyed by Israeli attacks

MENAJanuary 24, 2025
Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan greets Lebanese President Joseph Aoun at the presidential palace in Baabda, Lebanon, on Thursday. Reuters
Saudi FM Prince Faisal says kingdom is optimistic about political changes in Lebanon

Prince Faisal bin Farhan is most senior Saudi official to visit the country in 15 years

MENAJanuary 23, 2025
Lebanon's Prime Minister-designate Nawaf Salam at the presidential palace in Baabda, east of Beirut. AFP
Lebanon moves closer to forming cabinet at critical juncture

New Prime Minister Nawaf Salam has delicate job of forming government

MENAJanuary 20, 2025
Beirut port's grain silos and the area around it on August 5, 2020, one day after a massive explosion hit the heart of the Lebanese capital. AFP
Renewed hope for justice in Lebanon as officials summoned over Beirut port blast

Judge seeks to question 12 people in revival of long-stalled investigation

MENAJanuary 17, 2025
Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam arrives at the Presidential Palace in Baabda on Tuesday to meet President Joseph Aoun. Reuters
Lebanon’s PM designate calls for ‘new chapter rooted in justice’

‘Hands extended to everyone,’ Salam says in maiden speech from Presidential Palace

MENAJanuary 14, 2025
FILE PHOTO: Judge Nawaf Salam, president of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) speaks at the ICJ at the start of a hearing in The Hague Netherlands May 16, 2024. REUTERS / Yves Herman / File Photo
Nawaf Salam named Lebanon’s new Prime Minister

Former envoy to UN receives enough support from MPs during consultations with President Joseph Aoun

MENAJanuary 13, 2025
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