If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales. – Albert Einstein
A Lebanese Christian Maronite priest listens to a confession at the Saint George Maronite church in downtown Beirut. (PATRICK BAZ / AFP)Models display creations from Spring/Summer 2016 Haute Couture collection by Lebanese designer Abed Mahfouz during the Beirut Fashion Week in Beirut. (Mohamed Azakir / REUTERS)A policeman escorts Australian Sally Faulkner (R), the mother of the al-Amin children, and Australian reporter Tara Brown, upon their release from Lebanon’s Baabda Prison for women. (Aziz Taher / REUTERS)French President Francois Hollande (L) meets with a Syrian family at the informal Dalhamiyeh Syrian refugee camp near the city of Zahle in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley. (STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN / AFP)Lebanese and Syrian children carry Syrian and Lebanese flags during a sit-in against the bombing of the kids on the two Syrian towns Foua and Kafraya in front of the United Nation building (ESCWA) at downtown Beirut. (WAEL HAMZEH / EPA)French President Francois Hollande (C), Lebanon’s Cardinal Mar Bechara Boutros al-Rai (C-L), the Maronite Patriarch of Antioch and the Whole Levant, and French Defence minister Jean-Yves Le Drian (L) pose for a group picture with Christian, Shiite, Sunni and Druze religious figures following a meeting at the Residence des Pins (Pine Residence). (STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN / AFP)French President Francois Hollande (C) delivers a speech at the Residence des Pins (Pine Residence)in Beirut. (STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN / AFP)Houthi supporters hold posters depicting Lebanon’s Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah (L) and Houthi leader, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi (R) during a rally protesting against recent ceasefire violations, in Sana’a, Yemen. (YAHYA ARHAB / EPA)French President Francois Hollande walks with Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri after reviewing an honour guard upon his arrival outside the parliament building in downtown Beirut. (Mohamed Azakir / REUTERS)An aerial view of the Lebanese capital Beirut. (STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN / AFP)Lebanese youths hold national flags during a rally organised by the “Joy of Giving” NGO to mark the 41st anniversary of the civil war in Lebanon in front of the National Museum, in Beirut. (Abbass Salman)
