Lebanon POW

Lebanon POW: 28 May – 3 June

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  • . June 4, 2015

I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy. I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw
Lebanon POW

Lebanon POW: 12 – 18 March

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  • . March 18, 2015

Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. – Martin Luther King Jr.

Lebanese riot policemen stand guard during a demonstration held by relatives of Lebanese soldiers held hostage by Islamic militants, to demand action to secure the captives' release, in front of government headquarters in downtown Beirut, Lebanon. The militants, including the al-Qaida linked Nusra Front and the extremist Islamic State group, are holding some 20 Lebanese soldiers and policemen hostages since August, when they briefly overran a Lebanese border town. (Bilal Hussein / AP)
Lebanon POW

Lebanon POW: 13 – 19 November

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  • . November 19, 2014

Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country. —

Lebanese Hezbollah supporters march during a religious procession, to mark the burning of the tents that is part of Ashura religious ceremony, in Nabatieh. (Ali Hashisho / REUTERS)
Lebanon POW

Lebanon POW: 6 – 12 November

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  • . November 12, 2014

Billions of photos are shot every year, and about the toughest thing a photographer can do is invent an original, deeply personal, instantly recognizable visual

A villager rests while harvesting olives in Anqoun town, south Lebanon. (Ali Hashisho / REUTERS)
Lebanon POW

Lebanon POW: 16 – 22 October

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  • . October 22, 2014

Closing the roads, kidnapping, burning tires. These actions have become part of our daily life in Lebanon, but still, we could consider our country as

Lightning striking inside the sea beside Jounieh. Charbel, a 13-year-old boy was killed in a car accident in north Lebanon after the car of his father Marwan Youssef slid due to an overnight storm. The rainstorm also washed out a road in Maamelten in Jounieh, while heavy rains in the northern region of Akkar flooded several roads and shops nearby. (Joseph Barrak)
Lebanon POW

Lebanon POW: 9 – 15 October

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  • . October 15, 2014

Someone once said “Being soaked alone is cold. Being soaked with your best friend is an adventure”, so always turn your life into an amazing

A Lebanese Sunni armed woman carries a machine gun during the funeral procession of Sgt. Ali Sayid who was beheaded by Islamic militants, at his home town in Fnaydek, Akkar north Lebanon. Sayid went missing around the same time that some two dozen soldiers and police were seized by militants from Syria who overran the border town of Arsal for several days last month. The incursion was the most serious spillover yet of the Syrian civil war and escalated tensions in Lebanon, which is bitterly split over the conflict. (Hussein Malla / AP)
Lebanon POW

Lebanon POW: 4 – 10 September

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  • . September 10, 2014

John F. Kennedy once said “ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country”, sometimes you look

Models take part in the "Miss Bikini" event, part of "World Next Top Model 2014", at the Publicity beach resort in the Lebanese coastal city of Byblos. (ANWAR AMRO / AFP)
Lebanon POW

Lebanon POW: 14 – 20 Aug

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  • . August 20, 2014

There is a lot of photos inside this post which you might wish if you were there at that particular moment, but the one thing for sure,

Lebanese army soldiers carry the coffin of Lieutenant Colonel Dany Harb, who was killed during fighting between Lebanese army soldiers and Islamist militants in Arsal, during his funeral in Beirut. (Sharif Karim / REUTERS)
Lebanon POW

Lebanon POW: 7 – 13 August

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  • . August 13, 2014

The Lebanese army managed this week to put an end to the armed battles in Arsal, eastern Bekaa, but the war with those terrorists still didn’t

Lebanese member of parliament Sethrida Geagea, wife of presidential candidate Samir Geagea, looks on after casting her vote to elect the new Lebanese president in the parliament building in downtown Beirut. Lebanon's parliament failed to elect a new president, with no candidate securing the two-thirds of the vote needed to win and many lawmakers leaving their ballots blank. (JOSEPH EID/AFP)
Lebanon POW

Lebanon POW 17 – 23 April

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  • . April 23, 2014

In this week’s POW, 3 photos related to the presidential election’s are being featured, in addition to two “different” element, the first which is a