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      Jamie Prentis

      Jamie Prentis

      Lebanon correspondent
      Location
      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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      Articles

      A Lebanese welcoming committee greeted passengers arriving on an Emirates flight to Beirut. AP
      First Emiratis arrive in Lebanon after end of travel ban

      Lebanon is seeking to renew previously strong ties with the Gulf

      MENAMay 07, 2025
      Flames rise from a metal tent hit by an Israeli air strike on Dahieh in the southern suburbs of Beirut this week. AP
      Play01:12
      Lebanese President Joseph Aoun urges US to push Israel to stop attacks

      Message to US general comes days after Israel bombed southern Beirut

      MENAApril 30, 2025
      A poster depicting former Hezbollah leaders Hassan Nasrallah and Hashem Safieddine is carried from the site of an Israeli strike on southern Beirut. Reuters
      Israel inflicts new wounds on Beirut as city reels from attacks

      Military official says strike on Lebanese capital aims to increase pressure on government to disarm Hezbollah

      MENAApril 28, 2025
      Lebanese emergency teams cordon off the perimeter of a fire at a site in Beirut hit by Sunday's Israeli strikes. AFP
      Play01:12
      Israel strikes Beirut for third time since ceasefire

      Smoke rises after Israeli attack on what it claims is Hezbollah missile storage site

      MENAApril 27, 2025
      Lebanese security forces at the scene of an Israeli air strike in Baaouerta, near the coastal town of Damour, on Tuesday. AFP
      Israeli strike on Lebanon kills Islamic Group official

      Attack on Hussein Atoui happened 20km south of Beirut as he was driving to work

      MENAApril 22, 2025
      Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem has led the group since 2024. Reuters
      Naim Qassem warns Hezbollah 'will not allow anyone to disarm' group

      Hezbollah chief says no dialogue over Lebanon defence strategy until Israel withdraws

      MENAApril 18, 2025
      The shrapnel-riddled Liberty statue, damaged during Lebanon's civil war, in Beirut's Martyrs' Square. AFP
      Lebanon's civil war is not over yet, say politicians 50 years on

      Weapons may have stopped firing in Lebanon, but the old sectarian system dominates

      MENAApril 13, 2025
      Lebanon's President Joseph Aoun, right, speaks with US deputy special envoy for the Middle East Morgan Ortagus on Saturday. AFP
      US special envoy visits Lebanon to press for Hezbollah disarmament

      Morgan Ortagus and President Joseph Aoun hold 'private' meeting as Washington presses for timetable for Hezbollah’s disarmament

      MENAApril 05, 2025
      Druze leader Walid Jumblatt is seen by his allies, and his foes, as Lebanon's political wizard. AFP
      Play02:20
      InterviewLebanon's Jumblatt on confronting Israel and giving Syria's new leader a chance

      Lebanese veteran politician has witnessed every major transformation in the Middle East over the past several decades

      MENAApril 03, 2025
      Firemen work on the site of an Israeli army strike in the suburb of Dahiye, Beirut, Friday March 28, 2025. (AP Photo / Hussein Malla)
      Play01:31
      Israel strikes Beirut for first time since ceasefire

      Israeli military issued a forced eviction order for the capital's southern suburbs

      MENAMarch 28, 2025
      A protester outside a Bank Audi branch in Beirut in 2023. Lebanese have been gripped by poverty after plunging into a financial crisis in 2019. AP Photo
      First permanent Lebanese central bank chief appointed since Salameh

      Souaid will play a pivotal role in restoring international confidence in Lebanon's financial system

      MENAMarch 27, 2025
      An Israeli tank stationed along the border with Lebanon on Tuesday. AFP
      Lebanon warns it may use 'all means' to force full Israeli withdrawal

      Israeli military remains at five ‘strategic positions’ inside Lebanon in breach of truce agreement

      MENAFebruary 18, 2025
      Saad Hariri reacts as people gather to mark the 20th anniversary of the assassination of his father and former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri, in Beirut, Lebanon, February 14, 2025. REUTERS / Emilie Madi
      Play02:16
      Thousands gather in Beirut to mark 20th anniversary of Rafic Hariri’s killing

      His son, former prime minister Saad Hariri, returns to Lebanon for commemoration event

      MENAFebruary 14, 2025
      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
      Play09:55
      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
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