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      Nada Homsi is a correspondent at The National's Beirut bureau. She previously reported for National Public Radio and the New York Times, and has freelanced for numerous outlets such as Foreign Policy, Al Jazeera, and Middle East Eye, with a focus on Syria and Lebanon. She is Syrian-Texan-Palestinian, holds a Master's degree in Media Studies from the American University of Beirut, and enjoys learning about communities outside her own.
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      Dima Sadek films an anti-government protest in Beirut in 2019. One of her tweets has caused a backlash among supporters of Hezbollah and the Amal Movement. AP
      Death threats against Lebanese journalists highlight limits of free speech

      Stakes of free-speech debate are high in nation where killings of reporters are not unknown

      LebanonAugust 19, 2022
      Bassam al-Sheikh Hussein, an armed man who took hostages, leaves the branch of a Federal bank in Beirut, Lebanon, 11 August 2022. According to initial reports, an armed man stormed a Hamra-based bank and is keeping employees and clients as hostages demanding to be given his deposits. EPA / WAEL HAMZEH
      Man who held up Beirut bank still demands savings in full

      Bassam Al Sheikh Hussein tells 'The National' he won't quit until he gets his money – and if he doesn't, he'll do the whole thing again

      LebanonAugust 18, 2022
      Bassam Sheikh-Hussein had taken at least six hostages — customers and employees — in a Federal Bank of Lebanon branch in Beirut. EPA
      Beirut bank hostage-taker: necessity made him a villain, instead he became a hero

      A hostage drama in Lebanon has created an unlikely hero for a public mired in economic crisis

      LebanonAugust 12, 2022
      The armed bank customer in a police vehicle in Beirut. AFP
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      Lebanon Federal Bank staff hostage drama ends

      An armed man held up a branch and demanded his savings, drawing popular backing and sparking heated protests against the country's banking sector

      LebanonAugust 11, 2022
      French UN peacekeepers in the southern Lebanese border town of Naqoura. Lebanon's economic crisis is pushing its government to search for offshore hydrocarbons but a maritime border dispute with Israel continues to frustrate Beirut. AP
      Missed opportunities mar Lebanon's hunt for offshore energy

      Indirect talks between Lebanon and Israel have been taking place for more than a decade but Beirut may ultimately have little to show for it

      LebanonAugust 10, 2022
      Grief and anger as victims' families mark two years since Beirut blast
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      Grief and anger as victims' families mark two years since Beirut blast

      Thousands marched and gathered at the port to demand an investigation and justice

      LebanonAugust 04, 2022
      Dust rises as more sections of the grain silos at Beirut's port collapse on Thursday, the second anniversary of the August 4, 2020, explosion at the port that devastated Lebanon's capital. AFP
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      More silos collapse as Lebanon marks second anniversary of Beirut explosion

      Victims' families marched in Lebanese capital in protest over delayed justice

      LebanonAugust 04, 2022
      The grain-laden, Syrian-flagged 'Laodicea', docked in Lebanon's northern port of Tripoli. AFP
      Ukraine repeats claims that ship docked in Lebanon is carrying grain stolen by Russia

      Ambassador to Lebanon highlights 'very strong evidence' that cargo on board the 'Laodicea' was pilfered

      LebanonAugust 03, 2022
      Turkey's Rear Admiral Ozcan Altunbulak speaks to the media about the Sierra Leone-flagged cargo ship 'Razoni', which left the port of Odesa in Ukraine carrying grain exports. EPA
      Better late than never for Ukrainian grain ship bound for Lebanon

      Vessel symbolises alleviation of global food shortage caused by war in Ukraine

      MENAAugust 02, 2022
      Smoke rises from the grain silos damaged in the August 2020 port blast, in Beirut, Lebanon. Reuters
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      Fall of Beirut port silos causes distress for those who wanted memorial

      Collapse of silos' northernmost side blamed on weeks of government inaction, despite pleas from 2020 blast victims' families for monument

      MENAAugust 01, 2022
      A man with a bag of bread makes his way through a crowd of people queuing for bread outside a bakery in Beirut, Lebanon, July 27, 2022. Reuters
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      Lebanon's bakeries short on bread segregate queues over rising tensions

      Army intelligence try to keep the peace outside bakeries short on subsidised loaves as food crisis fuels anti-Syrian rhetoric

      LebanonJuly 29, 2022
      Lebanese queue to buy bread at a bakery north of Beirut. AFP
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      Beyond the HeadlinesJuly 28, 2022
      People line up in front of a bakery to buy bread in Lebanon's southern city of Sidon on June 22, 2022 as fuel and wheat shortage deepens. - Lebanon has been battered by triple-digit inflation, soaring poverty rates and the collapse of its currency since a 2020 debt default. (Photo by MAHMOUD ZAYYAT / AFP)
      Lebanon parliament approves $150m World Bank loan for wheat imports

      The loan will finance wheat imports for at least six months, alleviating acute bread shortages

      MENAJuly 26, 2022
      Newly crowned Miss Lebanon 2022, Yasmina Zaytoun. AFP
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      Miss Lebanon returns to the nation's screens

      Pageant, held for first time since 2018, is part of campaign to bring more tourism to struggling country

      LebanonJuly 24, 2022
      Beirut's famous Raouche Rocks, which the Itani family have taken upon themselves to protect. Picture: Ieva Saudargaite Douaihi
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      Postcard from Beirut: the family who are guardians of Dalieh beach

      For generations, a branch of the Itani clan have taken it upon themselves to protect a threatened slice of public coastline

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