Samar Kadi

Samar Kadi is a Lebanese writer.

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Hope Graffiti – Le Gray Facade (Courtesy of Le Gray Hotel)
Art breeds hope, resilience in blast-stricken Beirut
September 11, 2020
Demonstrators take part in an anti-government protest in Beirut, September 1, with a sign in French that reads: “The Lebanese people are hostages”. (REUTERS)
Lebanese cabinet in existential race against time
September 04, 2020
A view of the stained glass windows at the Sursock Museum, once a private home built in 1912. (AFP)
The effort to save Beirut’s heritage destroyed by port blast
August 27, 2020
Lebanese volunteers distribute food in the Karantina neighbourhood near Beirut’s port. (AFP)
Solidarity helps Lebanese survive but resilience sorely tested
August 19, 2020
A Lebanese youth wrapped in the national flag looks at the damaged grain silos at Beirut’s port. (AFP)
What’s next after the resignation of Lebanon’s government?
August 12, 2020
Men attach the Lebanese flag on a building following Tuesday’s blast in Beirut’s port area, in Beirut, Lebanon August 7. (REUTERS)
Distrustful of system, angry Lebanese call for international probe
August 08, 2020
Packs of multiple seeds and technical brochures are distributed under the food security initiative (LNE)
Crisis pushes Lebanese to seek food security
April 26, 2020
An anti-government protester covers her face with a Lebanese flag during a protest against the Lebanese Central Bank’s Governor Riad Salameh and against the deepening financial crisis, in Beirut, April 23. (AP)
Lebanon bracing for a harsher post-COVID-19 phase
April 25, 2020
A woman takes care of an old man at Beit Jdoudna foto courtesy Yara Bou Aoun in Beit Mery in Mount Lebanon. (Yara Bou Aoun)
Lebanese lend seniors a helping hand amid economic crisis
April 23, 2020
Banners hang from the balconies of a building, carrying messages against domestic violence, in the Lebanese capital Beirut, during a campaign dubbed #LockdownNotLockup, launched by the local association ABAAD, April 16. (AFP)
COVID-19 lockdown provoking surge in domestic violence in Lebanon
April 21, 2020
Lebanese soldiers keep watch as several hundred people protest in the northern city of Tripoli on April 17, despite the country’s coronavirus lockdown. (AFP)
Social unrest starts to boil over a month after lockdown in Lebanon
April 17, 2020
An ambulance of the Lebanese Red Cross leaves the emergency building of the government-run Rafik Hariri University Hospital, where most of the Lebanese coronavirus cases are treated, in Beirut, Lebanon,  March 11. (AP)
Red Cross volunteers on the frontline of COVID-19 battle in Lebanon
April 15, 2020
A Lebanese Red Cross vehicle arrives at the Beirut international airport, April 5. (AFP)
Lebanon’s poor, inmates assisted under COVID-19 pandemic
April 14, 2020
A Lebanese woman wearing a protective mask holds flowers as she takes part in a re-enactment of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ during Good Friday, April 10. (Reuters)
Subdued celebration of Easter as Lebanon’s Christians cope with COVID-19 lockdown
April 11, 2020
Lebanese President Michel Aoun meets with Lebanon's Prime Minister Hassan Diab at the presidential palace in Baabda, Lebanon April 9. (Reuters)
Lebanon in double-edged fight faces COVID-19, financial crisis
April 11, 2020
A Syrian refugee sits next to his belongings as he waits to board a bus to take him home to Syria, in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2019. (AP)
Few Syrian refugees return home despite Lebanon’s economic crises
April 08, 2020
Lebanese Army soldiers patrol in the market of the Palestinian refugee camp of Sabra, south of Beirut. (AFP)
Measures reinforced to prevent COVID-19 spread in Lebanon’s refugee camps
April 08, 2020
Radio Karantina logo. (Nasri Sayegh)
Radio Karantina brings solace to listeners on days of lockdown
April 04, 2020
A street vendor wearing a face mask pushes his cart in Shatila Palestinian refugee camp in Beirut's suburbs, last March. (Reuters)
Lebanon gets COVID-19 assistance from World Bank
April 04, 2020
Lebanese women wearing protective gear against the coronavirus COVID-19 wait for their turn outside an ATM booth at an empty street in Beirut on 27 March.(AFP)
Tighter measures, higher medical mobilisation to confront COVID-19 in Lebanon
March 27, 2020