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Iran

Workers collect marijuana plants in a field in the village of Yammoune in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. (AFP)

Drug trafficking jihad is a plague on Islam

Ibrahim Zobeidi

Lebanon

Reopening old wounds. A former inmate of Khiam prison chants slogans during a sit-in near a military court in Beirut where an arrest warrant was issued for Lebanese-American Amer Fakhoury, September 17. (AP)

Lebanese left to cope with own Vichy syndrome

Hezbollah

Perfect storm. A man uses binoculars to watch over the border with Israel at the “Garden of Iran” Park, which was built by the Iranian government, in the southern Lebanese village of Maroun al-Ras, on September 2. (AFP)

Hezbollah watches as storm clouds gather over the Gulf

Yossi Alpher

Writer Yossi Alpher. (Courtesy of Yossi Alpher)

Who are the winners and losers of the ‘Arab spring’?

Saad Hariri

End of the journey. A 2008 file picture shows a cameraman filming the anchor of Future TV station at a new studio in Sin al-Fil, east of Beirut.(AFP)

Cash-strapped Future TV suspends operations after 26 years on air

Lebanon

Hariri’s own TV channel sinks amid scandal and vitriol. What now?

Israel

Growing wariness. Members of the Israeli security forces stand at a checkpoint near the northern Israeli town of Avivim, close to the border with Lebanon, September 1. (AFP)

Hezbollah, Israeli brinkmanship continues in the face of ratcheting tensions

Lebanon

“Beirut” by Nabil Ismail. (Courtesy of Dar al Mussawir)

First Image Festival turns Beirut into outdoor gallery

Lebanon

A view of the St Vartan’s Armenian Cathedral. (Living Lebanon)

Bourj Hammoud, the little Armenia in the heart of Beirut