![A visitor looks at portraits of late Franco-Lebanese film director Maroun Baghdadi and pictures from his movies at the venue of an exhibition dedicated to his memory in Beirut on December 12, 2023, as Lebanon commemorates the 30th annivesary of his death in an accident at the age of 43. (Photo by ANWAR AMRO / AFP) (Photo by ANWAR AMRO/AFP via Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/2024-06/GettyImages-1847109311.jpg?h=0d7a3a8a&itok=TWyoApdj)
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Rodayna Raydan is a Lebanese British journalism graduate from Kingston University in London covering Lebanon. On Twitter: @Rodayna_462
![A visitor looks at portraits of late Franco-Lebanese film director Maroun Baghdadi and pictures from his movies at the venue of an exhibition dedicated to his memory in Beirut on December 12, 2023, as Lebanon commemorates the 30th annivesary of his death in an accident at the age of 43. (Photo by ANWAR AMRO / AFP) (Photo by ANWAR AMRO/AFP via Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/2024-06/GettyImages-1847109311.jpg?h=0d7a3a8a&itok=TWyoApdj)
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In Boqaata, reporting on culture
![Fishing boats are moored at the port of Karantina, north of Beirut, as their owners protest against the continued use of the nearby Karantina landfill waste dump site and its resultant waste pollution harming the local fishing industry, May 24, 2018.](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/2023-06/GettyImages-962085072.jpg?h=a5ae579a&itok=pOUQWqKt)
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In Boqaata, reporting on culture
![Aisha Mohammed Ali, 25, a mother of five who is a refugee from Aleppo, Syria, teaches the alphabet to one of her daughters, on January 5, 2022 in Tripoli, Lebanon. Tripoli is home to one of the country's largest population of Syrian refugees, 9 out of 10 of whom live in extreme poverty. (Photo by Andreea Campeanu/Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/2023-02/GettyImages-1362977734.jpg?h=31b6ea7b&itok=kGxCg6Oy)
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![This picture taken on March 21, 2020, shows an aerial view of the Ashrafieh district of Lebanon's capital, Beirut.](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/2022-12/GettyImages-1207932500.jpg?h=8dfd537e&itok=BT1eIKt3)
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![A volunteer serves food to needy children at a kitchen set up by charity groups in Lebanon's southern city of Sidon on Dec. 7, 2019.](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/2022-11/GettyImages-1190522167_0.jpg?h=088a5503&itok=42oi77LC)
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![Cancer drugs are seen at a pharmacy, Beirut, Lebanon, Oct. 7, 2022.](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/2022-10/GettyImages-1431410306.jpg?h=a5ae579a&itok=0lUdQuKy)
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![An aerial view of the city of Zahle in Lebanon's eastern Bekaa Valley, photo taken during a press tour by the Lebanese air force, July 1, 2021.](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/2022-09/GettyImages-1233749380.jpg?h=a5ae579a&itok=aSj_k5On)
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![Snow blankets the area of Mdeirej, in the mountains east of Beirut, Lebanon, Feb. 18, 2021.](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/2022-09/GettyImages-1231241676.jpg?h=a5ae579a&itok=D1oVqJgN)
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![TOPSHOT - Lebanese wait to fill their gas cylinders in the southern city of Sidon amidst a deepening economic crisis, on August 10, 2021 - Lebanese lined up in long queues to stock up on cooking gas following warnings of imminent shortages, as an economic crisis eats away at supplies of basic imports.Lebanon, grappling with an economic crisis branded by the World Bank as one of the planet's worse since the mid-19th century, has been hit in recent months by a wave of shortages of basic items from medicine to](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/2022-07/GettyImages-1234601984.jpg?h=1d34674f&itok=UkKu4gMh)
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