It takes a lot of energy to be negative. You have to work at it. But smiling is painless. – Eric Davis.
Demonstrators broke into a waste-sorting plant to protest the pervasive smell and environmental degradation resulting from the site, prompting retaliation by the plant’s workers, in Saida, Lebanon. (Mohammed Zaatari / The Daily Star)
A staff member of MEDCO charges an electrical car in downtown Beirut, Lebanon. MEDCO inaugurated four charging stations for electric cars. (Bilal Jawich / Xinhua)
Youths participate in a colour festival at City University in the district of Abu Samra in Tripoli, Lebanon. (Ibrahim Chalhoub / AFP)
A waiter arranges coals on a waterpipe – narjila – for football supporters watching the Russia 2018 World Cup round of 16 football match between France and Argentina, at a sports cafe in the capital Beirut, Lebanon. (Anwar Amro / AFP)
Fans of the British group Clean Bandit cheer during their concert at the Summer Misk Festival 2018 in Beit Misk east Beirut, Lebanon. (Wael Hamzeh / EPA)
Syrian children play with a cat in a refugee camp on the outskirts of the town of Zahle in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley. (Haitham Moussawi / AFP)
Syrian refugees prepare to return to Syria from the Lebanese border town of Arsal, Lebanon. (Mohamed Azakir / REUTERS)
People play foosball as Hezbollah’s leader Hassan Nasrallah is seen speaking on television, in al-Ghaziyeh village, southern Lebanon. (Ali Hashisho / REUTERS)
A member of the General Security Directorate stands by as a Syrian refugees before boarding a bus evacuating them from Lebanon at the Masnaa crossing, on their way back to Damascus. (Hassan Jarrah / AFP)
Lebanon fashion designer Rabih Kayrouz acknowledges the audience at the end of his 2018-2019 Fall/Winter Haute Couture collection fashion show in Paris, France. (Bertrand GUAY / AFP)
PM Saad Hariri, surrounded with the family of his sister-in-law, attends a Beirut design week event in Mar Mkhayel, Lebanon. (Hasan Shaaban / The Daily Star)
