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Syrian Refugees Suffer Double Threat Of Severe Winter, Less Aid

1:28pm January 09, 2015

As the Syrian war nears its fifth year and a bitter storm hits, refugees say this is the worst winter yet. To make matters worse, cash constraints mean they're getting less help from aid groups.

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Syrian children play at a refugee camp in Terbol, Lebanon, in 2013. More than 1 million Syrian refugees are in Lebanon, which is now requiring Syrians to obtain visas before entering the country.

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In Latest Sign Of Strain, Lebanon Demands That Syrians Get Visas

3:55pm January 05, 2015

by Greg Myre

The more than 1 million Syrian refugees have placed a tremendous burden on Lebanon, a country of just 4 million people.

A Syrian refuge woman walks past tents at a refugee camp in the eastern Lebanese border town of Arsal, Lebanon, Monday, Nov. 18, 2013.

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Amid Strains, Syrian Refugees Are Facing Curfews In Lebanon

2:46pm December 17, 2014

by Alice Fordham

The fragile country now hosts some 1 million Syrian refugees. Some towns have set up civilian volunteers to enforce curfews on the refugees, leading to rising tensions and some cases of abuse.

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Mona, 28, narrates during a rehearsal of Antigone. "I feel that Antigone resembles me a lot," says the former resident of Damascus and mother of two.

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Syrian Women Displaced By War Make Tragedy Of 'Antigone' Their Own

2:21pm December 13, 2014

by Alice Fordham

Sophocles' ancient Greek play chronicled a princess' plight after a horrible civil war 2,000 years ago. Syrian refugee women in Beirut are incorporating their lives into a new production of the drama.

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Mazen Hariz, a bartender and business student in east Beirut, says it took him seven months to grow his beard.

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Who's That Lebanese Man With A Beard: Hipster Or Jihadi?

2:03pm December 11, 2014

by Alice Fordham

Hipsters in Beirut have a problem. Their long, lustrous beards are getting them mistaken for Islamist extremists and drawing unwanted scrutiny from the security forces.

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Lebanon's parliament sits in Beirut's rebuilt Nejmeh Square, near the center of the city. Unlike many of Beirut's neighborhoods, the square is often mostly empty.

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Ghosts Of The Past Still Echo In Beirut's Fragmented Neighborhoods

3:26pm October 06, 2014

by Alice Fordham

Lebanon's civil war ended 25 years ago, but the sectarian divisions that sliced its capital into different enclaves still hold today. Everyone coexists relatively peacefully — most of the time.

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