Eyes glazed, face impassive, she barely flinched. In this Maronite Christian village less than three miles from the Israeli ...

Until the start of Israel’s ground invasion, a Lebanese army unit had stayed in Rmeish and helped organise movement in and ...

According to Lebanon’s sectarian power-sharing system, the presidency must be held by a Maronite, the majority Christian ...

Led and dominated by the Christian Maronite elites, Lebanon was vibrant and liberal, projecting a civic polity, a rich cultural tapestry, sophisticated banking institutions. Lebanon enjoyed a ...

The Lebanese Forces party was founded by Bashir Gemayel, a Maronite Christian, during the Lebanese civil war in 1976, uniting several Christian factions. The party has long been a critic of ...

By the Lebanese Constitution, the president of Lebanon must always be a Maronite Catholic. And the 128 parliamentary seats are evenly divided between Christians and Muslims/Druze. Christians ...

Aitou, a Maronite Christian community located in the mountains near the north-western coastal city of Tripoli, was not a place which would have expected to be attacked. “Oh mother Mary ...

On the border with Israel, Rmeish is the only Lebanese town that has not been directly ordered to leave. While neither side ...