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BU Today
March 20, 2018
Slacklining with Syrian refugees in the Bekaa Valley in Beirut, Lebanon. Since then, Iverson has highlined in several countries, including Turkey, Norway, and China. She and Tabony also founded the nonprofit Crossing Lines, which uses slacklining, a cousin to highlining that uses a loosely strung ropeÃâà...
UN News
March 20, 2018
A young Syrian girl sits on a broken chair by her tent in Faida 3 camp, an informal tented settlement for Syria refugees in Bekaa Valley, Lebanon. 19 March 2018. Humanitarian Aid. At a time when resources for refugees from Syria is declining, the top United Nations humanitarian official in Lebanon, the country host to someÃâà...
Chatham House
March 1, 2018
If humanitarian considerations alone won't persuade a broad coalition of states to consider real reform on responsibility sharing, political, security and economic dividends just might. A Syrian refugee camp in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. Photo: Getty Images. More than 80 per cent of refugees globally reside inÃâà...
BU Today
February 27, 2018
There are nearly one million Syrian refugees in Lebanon, and about 350,000 of them make their temporary home in the Bekaa Valley. Just outside Zahle, the valley's largest city, tens of thousands live in shelters made of wood, plastic sheets, and corrugated iron. View of a Syrian refugee camp in Lebanon.
Equal Times
February 6, 2018
At the beginning of December, an accidental fire took the lives of five children from this family from Homs that have been living in an informal settlement in Bekaa Valley in eastern Lebanon since 2013. A moment's inattention with a portable stove and their previous dwelling went up in flames. The fire spreadÃâà...
We Are The Mighty (blog)
January 31, 2018
One of the most notable engagements these airframes saw was the Bekaa Valley Turkey Shoot. During the 1982 Israeli-Lebanon War, the Israelis were dealing with terrorist attacks from the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). The PLO had relocated to Lebanon shortly after wearing out its welcome in Jordan.
Aljazeera.com
July 2, 2017
One child killed and several people injured as major blaze engulfs camp for Syrian refugees in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. 2 Jul 2017. At least one child has died after a big fire engulfed a camp for hundreds of Syrian refugees in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley according to aid workers, who believe that there may be two moreÃâà...
Sight Magazine
December 31, 1999
Aziza, a Syria refugee and former child bride, poses for a photo with her baby in Bekaa Valley, Lebanon. PICTURE: Heba Kanso/Thomson Reuters Foundation. A growing number of girls among the 1.5 million Syrian refugees who have fled to Lebanon since 2011 are becoming wives amid rising poverty,Ãâà...
Mission Network News
December 31, 1999
Lebanon (MNN) — A fire sparked by a heater in the Bekaa Valley refugee camps last month spread and left 60 Syrians homeless. It's just one of the dangers that nearly one million displaced Syrians faced during the winter months in Lebanon. Around 250,000 Syrian refugees live in the Bekaa Valley whereÃâà...
An-Nahar
December 31, 1999
BEIRUT: Interior Minister Nouhad Mashnouk said Wednesday that the Lebanese amnesty law will be adopted shortly, as Lebanese from the Bekaa Valley, Sidon and all the way to Tripoli have been demonstrating for a general amnesty law that would lead to the release of thousands of prisoners.
Kuwait Times
December 31, 1999
BEKAA VALLEY: Aziza, a Syrian refugee and former child bride, poses for a photo with her baby in Bekaa Valley, Lebanon. —Reuters. BEKAA VALLEY: A s 17-year-old Aziza sat in her dark tent in a refugee camp, she rocked her baby while her tiny hands adjusted his pacifier, looking down at all she hadÃâà...
The National
December 31, 1999
The Lebanese security forces rescued a seven-year-old Syrian girl, who had been kidnapped near her home in the Bar Elias town of the Bekaa Valley. Three Syrian men and one woman — between the ages of 23 and 41 — suspected of taking the child were arrested, the police said in a statement onÃâà...
