There is at Christmas time a great deal of hypocrisy, honourable hypocrisy, hypocrisy undertaken pour le bon motif, c’est entendu, but nevertheless hypocrisy!
Agatha Christie
A woman reacts during a sit-in in front of the Jaafari Court for the Shiite Sect demanding the increase of the age of custody, in Beirut, Lebanon. (Ali Alloush / Al Modon)People take photos in front of the festive decorations in central Beirut, Lebanon. (Bilal Jawich / Xinhua)A policeman reacts during a demonstration outside the entrance of the American University of Beirut, Lebanon. (Rabih Yassine)A group of refugees are seen after a tent camp was set on fire after a clash between a group of Lebanese and Syrian refugees in Tripoli, Lebanon. (Ahmad Al Said / Anadolu Agency)A man walks past a shop in the Hamra area, in Beirut, Lebanon. (Bilal Jawich / Xinhua)Riot policemen clash with university students during a demonstration against high tuition fees outside the American University in Beirut (AUB), Lebanon. (Marwan Naamani / DPA)A composite view of the interior of the Maronite Church of Saint Anthony of Padova a day after the port blast; and during a special Christmas morning mass, in Beirut, Lebanon. (ANWAR AMRO / AFP)Syrian refugees salvage belongings from the wreckage of their shelters at a camp set on fire overnight in Bhanine, Lebanon. (Ibrahim CHALHOUB / AFP)A sign reading “Beirut” is seen among Christmas decorations in downtown Beirut, Lebanon. (Mohamed Azakir / REUTERS)Demonstrators chant slogans as they carry a placard, which translates from Arabic “Education is a right to all, no to the influence of the dollar” during a demonstration in Beirut, Lebanon. (ANWAR AMRO / AFP)Students from American University of Beirut stand among policemen as they protest over tuition fees in Beirut, Lebanon. (Mohamed Azakir / REUTERS)Displaced Syrian sits outside his makeshift tyre repair shop which he covered with a Lebanese flag following Beirut’s massive port blast last August, in the village of Kafr Uruq in the north of Idlib, Syria. (Abdulaziz KETAZ / AFP)
