Lebanon's elderly population devastated by crash - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Andrea Lopez-Tomas

Andrea Lopez-Tomas

Dec 7, 2021

JOSEPH EID/AFP via Getty Images — A Lebanese street vendor sells eggs and potatoes on the side of a highway in Beirut on Jan. 31, 2018. — JOSEPH EID/AFP via Getty Images

Men rest in Vakifli village, which is located in Hatay province, June 13, 2007. In sleepy Vakifli, Turkey's last surviving ethnic Armenian village, perched high among orange groves overlooking the east Mediterranean, elderly farmers say they will probably vote for the Islamist-rooted AK Party in July 22 elections. Picture taken June 13, 2006. To match feature TURKEY-ELECTION/CHRISTIANS REUTERS/Umit Bektas (TURKEY) - GM1DVNFQSPAA

Some elderly Turks face silent, slow killers: Abuse and neglect

Pinar Tremblay

Women sit on a park bench in Tehran June 9, 2009. Iranians vote on Friday in the 10th presidential election since the 1979 Islamic revolution which toppled the U.S.-backed Shah. Three decades after the revolution, Reuters invited some older Iranians who witnessed the Shah's overthrow to look back at the changes they have lived through. To match feature IRAN-ELECTION/REVOLUTION REUTERS/Raheb Homavandi (IRAN POLITICS ELECTIONS) - RTR24JM3

Elderly in Iran suffer as economy falters

Mehrnaz Samimi

In Washington, DC, reporting on Iranian 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.

In Lebanon, women break barriers by tinkering fishing nets to secure income

Rodayna Raydan

In Boqaata, reporting on culture

Beirut university

Lebanese seniors get second chance at education

Rabih Damaj