With Modern Art from the Middle East, the Yale University Art Gallery celebrates the 175th anniversary of Arabic studies at Yale and honors Edward Elbridge Salisbury, B.A. 1832, the first professor of Arabic and Sanskrit in the Americas.

It is crucial to consider food security an indispensable link in the process of achieving peace.

More than 56 million people in 17 countries affected by prolonged conflicts are struggling to feed themselves, trapped in a vicious cycle of violence and hunger, according to two United Nations agencies.

They went to a studio in Beirut to record this interview, and as you'll hear, the studio wasn't soundproof.

As citizens of Israel face new elections without any leader seriously discussing the reality of the occupation, where is the hope for peace?

A U.N. mission investigating the use of chemical weapons in Syria arrived Tuesday in Beirut on its way to Syria, the Lebanese government said. Lebanon’s official National News Agency reports U.N. High Representative for Disarmament Affairs Angela Kane arrived Tuesday in Beirut with Ake Sellstrom, a former U.N. weapons inspector in Iraq and head of a fact-finding mission investigating the ...

For the first time in the history of the Arab/Israeli conflict, a military force emerged under Hezbollah leadership that could not be defeated by US-backed Israeli forces. Attempts to brand Hezbollah as a terrorist organisation are not only futile, but fly in the face of the facts of this movement and its history. Like all genuine resistance movements, the Lebanese ...

Nearly 3,000 people took part in a rally calling for peace in Tripoli Sunday, where recurrent sectarian clashes have plagued the northern city for two years. Members of civil society groups, political figures and Tripoli residents gathered at the Rashid Karami Exhibition and marched to the Abu Ali Roundabout, a site of frequent sniper fire, and cried out slogans that ...

By Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times BEIRUT — A faint glimmer of hope of breaking the diplomatic standoff on Syria has emerged as two key allies, Russia and Iran, reacted positively to a leading opposition figure’s surprise offer of conditional talks with the government of President Bashar Assad. Officials from the two countries spoke approvingly of the offer at ...

In the last three decades, 50 million people in the Arab world have been affected by natural disasters, many of them extreme climate events, according to a new report by the World Bank. The report projects the horrific scenario of temperatures regularly rising over 50 degrees Celsius by the turn of the century, which experts fear could lead to countless more disasters.

It comes after clashes broke out in several areas, following the killing of a senior security official on Friday. The worst clashes were in Tripoli in the north, where at least three people died as gunmen exchanged fire. Soldiers have been deployed in the capital Beirut, where there have been sporadic clashes. For more on this story, visit: BBC News ...