The owners also protest that many lives would be ruined if they changed their locations which they do not have the budget in the first place to, while also many employees would be hurt in the process.

Tourism and hospitality management have risen critically following Beirut's prosperity, however we currently notice young university students fulfilling these posts in spite of the inflexible schedule it requires of them. On the other hand, we also spot many of those whom seek better financial status therefore struggle a double shift.

All his clients became his friends. If the salon remains very quiet, let’s say (2 to 3 clients per day usually), a quiet and friendly ambiance reigns, conducive to discussions between the hairdresser and the client. Jean Saadi wants to entertain his clients, although getting a haircut is not in principle very exciting.

It's been like this since August: no running water in this apartment on the fifth floor of an Achrafieh building, right next to ABC. The problem is recurrent each year. The cause: the lack of water supplies during the dry season in Lebanon. That forces the State to ration out water. The specificity of this year is that summer is lasting really long: we are in mid November and the rain has barely touched the ground once at the end of October. Another cause: the antiquated pipes.

In 1989, MPs gathered together in Taef and decided to consolidate books about history and civil education in Lebanon. A unified history book has yet to come to fruition. Instead, there are several history books reflecting different versions of history.

In a very political and religious context, a few people try to make things change. About 50 human rights associations worldwide are participating in the One Day Struggle on November the 9th. This movement was launched last year by the Coalition for Sexual ad Bodily Rights in Muslim Societies (CSBR) last year.

The young prisoner in Roumieh could take all the courses thanks to the scholars who used to move to the prison for that purpose. He also had regular contact with a USJ social assistant.

According to the USJ, "The student whose sentence is still very long, has brilliantly continued his academic career in International Affairs, at the History department at the Arts and Human Sciences Faculty, and yet, obtained his Bachelor degree last June".

This $370m project aims to provide clean water to around 1.5 million people in the Greater Beirut Region. The Beirut and Mount Lebanon Water Authority will provide $140m, while land appropriation will cost an additional $30m.The World Bank indicated that water supply in Lebanon has not kept pace with demand and lags far behind the standards associated with the country's level of economic development.

The annual cost of inadequate public water supply is estimated at $470m, equivalent to 2% of GDP in 2008, including $380m in household spending on private water supply.

Although considered among the Arab world’s most “westernized” countries, no legislation stipulates any sanctions against obscene remarks or gestures, or even sexual touching sometimes, leaving daily many victims among women either on the steet, in the public transports and in the workplace. Thus, a group of feminists decided to launch an “anti-harassment” campaign, in order to raise public awareness of this problem which, for many women, unfolds, under the pretext that it was part of the country’s “culture”. Nasawiya

Marie Hélène arrived in Beirut a few weeks ago. So did her friend Magalie. Both young women are studying in Paris. Marie-Hélène in Literature at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) : she is currently doing research for her last year project. As for Magalie, she is studying psychology. Both of them chose complex study fields.