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Hania Zaatari, center, who is an independent candidate in the upcoming parliamentary elections tells a man that fixing Lebanon's devastating economic crisis is her top priority, at the old souk, in Sidon, Lebanon, April 9, 2022. The May 15 nationwide vote is the first since Lebanon's economy took a nosedive and an August 2020 explosion at Beirut's port killed more than 200 and destroyed parts of the capital. Lebanon's various disasters have fueled anger at Lebanon's political elite, but few see any hope that elections will dislodge them. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

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Lebanon vote holds little hope for change despite disasters
By AJ NADDAFF - Associated Press
Wed,04/27/22-1:37AM , 136 Reads
SIDON, Lebanon (AP) — Running for parliament for the first time, independent Hania Zaatari walks down the meandering alleyways of the old souk in the port city of Sidon, telling impoverished workers and traders that fixing Lebanon’s devastating economic crisis is her top priority.
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In this Jan. 20, 2017 photo, a man carries a baby as he walks past rubble in the once rebel-held Salaheddine neighborhood of eastern Aleppo, Syria. Tuesday, March 15, 2022 marks the 11th anniversary of Syria's revolution-turned-civil war. This year, many survivors are watching in shock as Ukrainians face the same horrors they did. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

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Ukraine war recalls trauma for survivors of Aleppo siege
By AJ NADDAFF - Associated Press
Tue,03/15/22-1:36AM , 113 Reads
BEIRUT (AP) — When Afraa Hashem thinks back about living through the siege of Aleppo, she remembers how inventive everyone was.
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Kassem Istanbouli, actor, director and founder of the Tyro Association for Arts, inspects a film at Empire Cinema in Tripoli, Lebanon, Feb. 16, 2022. Often known in recent years for sectarian and other violence, Tripoli seems an unlikely place for a cultural revival, but it has a long cinematic tradition, once boasting 35 movie houses and Lebanon's first cinema. Istanbouli, is seeking to restore some of that past glory by turning the city’s long abandoned Empire Cinema into a national theater. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

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Closed for decades, theater returns to Lebanon's Tripoli
By AJ NADDAFF - Associated Press
Thu,03/10/22-12:24AM , 236 Reads
TRIPOLI, Lebanon (AP) — The hissing of a water hose spraying the ground reverberates around the walls of the dimly lit Empire Cinema in Lebanon’s northern city of Tripoli.
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Refugees fleeing fleeing the military operation zone from the Mariupol area of Ukraine sit in a bus as they arrive at the border crossing in Veselo-Voznesenka, Russia, Monday, March 7, 2022. Russia announced yet another limited cease-fire and the establishment of safe corridors to allow civilians to flee some besieged Ukrainian cities. (AP Photo)

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EXPLAINER: Humanitarian corridors, from Syria to Ukraine
By AJ NADDAFF - Associated Press
Mon,03/07/22-3:20PM , 159 Reads
BEIRUT (AP) — As more Ukrainian towns and cities come under siege, concern is mounting for millions of civilians in the crossfire.
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