Jabal Lubnan, Lebanon News

A group of pioneering Arab filmmakers have come together to shoot a road movie in the Middle East that they hope will also draw audiences and make an impact outside the region.

Cyprus on Friday got rid of limits on money transfers and withdrawals for international clients of another eight foreign banks doing business in the debt-laden country.

In this picture taken on Friday May 10, 2013, Syrian economist Abdullah al-Dardari, a chief economist at the Beirut-based U.N. Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia and a former deputy prime minister in President Bashar Assad's government, speaks during an interview with the Associated Press, In Beirut, Lebanon.

This Tuesday, May 14, 2013 citizen journalism image provided by Aleppo Media Center AMC which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows the mother of a Syrian rebel cleaning a rifle, in Aleppo, Syria.

The conflict in Syria is taking a steep toll on its neighbors. Videos from Syria being posted to the Internet show a now-familiar theme - a country ripping itself apart - neither side willing to give in.

An exciting business year for Burger King Lebanon marked with an upbeat expansion plan in 2013; saw the prominent brand getting bigger everywhere in the country despite the volatile economic situation.

The Haifa District Attorney's Office on Thursday filed an indictment against Simon Sa'dati in the Acre Magistrate's Court for leaving the country illegally, following his recent dramatic incursion into Lebanon which temporarily both confused and transfixed the country.

Alfa unrolled the country's first commercial 4G data service in certain areas of Beirut Wednesday and Lebanon's second mobile operator, touch, is set to follow suit next week.

The legend of the late, great Algerian singer Warda Al-Jazayria lives on with the recent release of a music video for her song "Eyyam" from the album "Eli Da'a Min Omri" , which she put out before her passing.

A few years back, fledgling 20-something filmmaker Hanan Abdalla got a commission from U.N. Women to make a documentary about "women's needs" in Egypt.

Isaac Hasbani is a Chicago based Engineer. He was born in November 1947 to a Syrian Jewish family in Beirut.

BEIRUT: Human Rights Watch and the Syrian opposition National Coalition have condemned a gruesome video apparently showing a Syrian rebel fighter cutting out the heart of a regime soldier and eating it.

Russian ambassador to Lebanon Alexander Zasypkin speaks during an interview with The Daily Star in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, March 2, 2012.

Relatives of the kidnapped protest in front of the Turkish airlines offices in Beirut, Thursday, May 9, 2013.

A Free Syrian Army fighter aims his AK-47 rifle through a window in Aleppo's Salaheddine neighbourhood .

President Michel Sleiman meets with the White House coordinator for the Middle East, North Africa and Persian Gulf Philip Gordon at the Presidential Palace in Baabda, Tuesday, May 14, 2013.

Actress Angelina Jolie announced in a New York Times op-ed article on Tuesday that she underwent a preventive double mastectomy after learning she carries the BRCA1 gene, which sharply increases her risk of developing breast cancer and ovarian cancer.

BEIRUT: More than 50 women are planning to run for the upcoming parliamentary polls, as activists are still campaigning for quota in both the Parliament and Cabinet.

Kristalina Georgieva, the European Union Commissioner for International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response attends a press conference in Beirut, Monday, May 13, 2013.

The United Nations Special Rapporteur for Palestine, Professor a Richard Falk, came to Lebanon last week on an unofficial visit to survey a opinion while fact-finding the condition in Palestinian refugee's camps.