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Hassan Nasrallah during a September 2019 interview
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Thirty Minutes to Find a Translator

A Lebanese money changer said the allegations were false. Hezbollah’s leader said drugs were forbidden.…

Fields and sheep in the Bekaa Valley
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Noah Zaiter: The Fugitive Who Kept Appearing

In October 2019, as demonstrations spread across Lebanon, Noah Zaiter had a message for the…

Container handling at Northport, Port Klang
Lebanon and SyriaLogistics and shippingNetwork studyProfile

The Captagon State: The Men Who Could Move the Goods

When Lebanese authorities arrested Hassan Daqqou in April 2021, the documents described by Daraj included…

Official portrait of Treasury official Marshall Billingslea.
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The Accountants Behind the Apparatus

To an outside auditor glancing over the ledger books of a Beirut construction firm, Muhammad Al-Mukhtar Kallas appeared to be…

Burgas Airport departure terminal and apron, photographed in June 2012.
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The Name That Survived the Blast

Amid the smoking debris scattered across the parking lot of Sarafovo Airport in Burgas, Bulgaria, on the afternoon of July…