It was during this volunteer exercise that she had the idea to create a statue using what all she had found that could inspire the people of Lebanon to unite and rebuild the glory of their city.

Raya Al-Hassan is one of four women taking cabinet jobs in the new Lebanese government. This appointment will make her the Arab world’s first female interior minister. The new cabinet comprises of four women and 26 men and will have three more women ministers than the last government, in which even the minister for women was […]

Lebanon’s new government will institute a minister of state for women’s affairs, and the appointee is a 62-year-old man, Jean Ogasapian.

It was on a #GivingTuesday that INARA caught my attention for the second time this year. Here’s an organisation set up by a senior international correspondent, Arwa Damon (whose reports from conflict areas in the Middle East many of us have watched for years)… an organisation dedicated to helping as many children from conflict areas […]