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How Oliver Azzi found his voice through memory, identity & home

The New Arab Meets: Lebanese artist Oliver Azzi as he reflects on growing up between two homes, finding music at 26 and building his own path

Zainab Mehdi

25 June, 2026

Retired Lebanese soldiers protest to demand an increase in their sal

Lebanon

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Lebanese workers strike as fuel and VAT hikes offset pay rise

The New Arab Staff

24 February, 2026

Minister of Finance, Yassin Jaber, arrives at the presidential palace to attend the first meeting of Lebanon's new government in Baabda, east of Beirut

Lebanon

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Lebanon finance minister defends tax hike after outcry

The New Arab Staff & Agencies

18 February, 2026

Lebanese retired soldiers try to storm parliament over wage dispute

Lebanon

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Roadblocks in Beirut after Lebanon announces fuel and VAT hike

The New Arab Staff

17 February, 2026

Aerial view showing large part of Beirut on October 25, 2024. (Photo by ORESTIS PANAGIOTOU/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Lebanon

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Al Habtoor Group exits Lebanon after dispute with authorities

The New Arab Staff & Agencies

29 January, 2026

A Lebanese gold trader hands over a 12 kg gold bar at his warehouse in Beirut on November 25, 2009

Lebanese economy

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Breaking taboo, Lebanese minister suggests selling gold reserves

The New Arab Staff

28 January, 2026

Long queues form in front of gas stations in Lebanon

Lebanon

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Lebanon signs gas exploration deal with international consortium

The New Arab Staff & Agencies

09 January, 2026

The Lebanese army receive arms from the Beddawi camp, 5 km north-east of Tripoli, northern Lebanon as part of the fourth stage of the plan to collect weapons from Palestinian refugee camps on September 13, 2025

Lebanon

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Security, political reforms vital to Lebanon recovery: minister

The New Arab Staff & Agencies

08 January, 2026

Lebanon [Getty]

Lebanon

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Lebanon's cabinet approves draft law on financial crisis losses

The New Arab Staff & Agencies

26 December, 2025

Lebanon's Minister of Economy Amin Salam leaves following a cabinet meeting at the presidential palace in Baabda, east of the capital Beirut, on September 13, 2021

Lebanon

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Lebanon approves former minister release accused of corruption

The New Arab Staff & Agencies

16 December, 2025

A man shows fake oranges filled with Captagon pills and dissimulated in boxes containing real fruit, after the shipment was intercepted by the customs and the anti-drug brigade at the Beirut port, on 29 December 2021. [Getty]

Lebanon

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Lebanese farmers hopeful as four-year Saudi export ban may end

Ali Awadah

19 November, 2025

A man walking near the ATM machine of Audi bank on August 4, 2023 in Beirut, Lebanon.

Lebanon

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Lebanon minister expects cabinet to sign fiscal gap law soon

The New Arab Staff & Agencies

15 October, 2025

Lebanon Central Bank -- Getty

Lebanon

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Lebanon central bank: Global interest rates complicate debt plan

The New Arab Staff & Agencies

13 September, 2025

Riad Salameh - GETTY

Lebanon

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Fury as Riad Salameh, banker who bankrupted Lebanon, is bailed

Halima Tabiaa

29 August, 2025

Lebanese depositors stage a protest outside Lebanon's Central Bank in Beirut

Lebanon

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Lebanon passes banking restructuring law in key reform

The New Arab Staff

31 July, 2025

Travelers walk on the Lebanese side of the Masnaa border crossing with Syria on December 9, 2024. (Photo by ANWAR AMRO/AFP via Getty Images)

Lebanon

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Lebanon plans return of 400,000 Syrian refugees with $100 offer

The New Arab Staff

11 June, 2025

lebanon municipal elections

Lebanon

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Chaos and fraud claims overshadow north Lebanon municipal vote

Rita El Jammal

13 May, 2025