Samar Kadi

Samar Kadi is the Arab Weekly society and travel section editor.

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“Ford 71” installation by Iraqi artist Mahmoud al-Obaidi on display at the Nabu Museum. (Nabu Museum)
Nabu museum offers new attraction in northern Lebanon
November 10, 2018
Poster of the fourth Beirut Art Film Festival. (BAFF)
Beirut Art Film Festival highlights environmental issues
November 10, 2018
Syrian refugees gather as they prepare to leave Beirut to return to their homes in Syria, on September 4. (AFP)
Syrian refugees in Lebanon reluctant to return home
November 01, 2018
A building is offered for rent in downtown Beirut. (AP)
Political will needed to salvage Lebanon’s economy
October 20, 2018
A general view of the Silk Museum in Bsous in Mount Lebanon. (The Silk Museum)
Silk Museum keeps memory of Lebanese industry alive
October 20, 2018
Remarkable legacy. A file picture shows Franco-Lebanese journalist and Middle East specialist Antoine Sfeir. (Wikipedia)
Middle East specialist Antoine Sfeir dies at 70
October 06, 2018
A view of Villa Donna Maria in Sofar.(Sofar Grand Hotel)
Sofar: Lebanon’s historic hub of luxury
October 06, 2018
Civil ceremony of Tarek Mallak and Anastacia El Hajj in international waters off the Lebanese coast. (Interesting Times)
Campaign to promote civil marriage in Lebanon
September 29, 2018
Soldiers from the Italian contingent in the UNIFIL patrol the Blue Line in Lebanon’s southern border town of Naqura. (AFP)
Smooth mandate renewal reaffirms UNIFIL’s crucial role in Lebanon
September 15, 2018
A farmer holds tobacco leaves in Aitaroun in southern Lebanon. (Reuters)
Contraband depriving Lebanon of badly needed revenues
September 15, 2018
A file picture shows Algerian singer Rachid Taha performing in Toulouse for the 15th edition of the Rio Loco festival. (AFP)
Farewell to Rachid Taha, Algerian-French singer who fused rock and Arab music
September 15, 2018
Uncertain future. Palestinian refugee students stand outside a classroom at one of the UNRWA schools in Beirut, Lebanon, on September 3. (AP)
Lebanon’s Palestinians, the hardest hit by US funding cuts to UNRWA
September 08, 2018
Scars of war. Francois Zimeray, France’s top human rights official, looks at portraits of people who disappeared during Lebanon’s civil war (1975-1990). (Reuters)
Families of Lebanon’s war missing keep searching for truth
September 01, 2018
The six pieces making up the head of Mikhail Naimy seen separately. (Samar Kadi)
Atelier Assaf offers visitors journey into art, heritage and ecology
September 01, 2018
A Saudi engineer (L) shows pilgrims a smart umbrella, which uses solar energy to cool the user, in the Saudi holy city of Mecca. (AFP)
Millions of Muslims converge on Mecca to perform ‘smart haj’
August 18, 2018
Sally (L) and Serene listen to callers at Embrace, a suicide prevention helpline, in the Lebanese capital Beirut on July 13, 2018. (AFP)
Suicide rate among Lebanese youth raises alarm
August 16, 2018
Fighters of the Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) march during a military parade in Daquq. (Reuters) 
Experts discuss PMF's challenge to rebuilding Iraq
August 16, 2018
Colombian singer Shakira plants a cedar tree during her visit to Tannourine Cedars Reserve, in Tannourine, Lebanon July 13, 2018. (Reuters)
Climate change takes its toll on Lebanon’s millennium cedars
August 11, 2018
At critical levels. Seagulls search for food near a sewage discharge area next to piles of plastic bottles washed away by the water on the seaside of Ouzai in southern Beirut, on July 19. (AFP)
Sea pollution in Lebanon approaching dangerous levels
August 11, 2018
A drawing by Azza Abo Rebieh that is inspired by her time in prison in Damascus. (Galerie Alice Mogabgab)
‘Art into the Night’: a show of night-time inspiration and torment
August 04, 2018