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Is winter holiday travel canceled? Not quite

6 years 2 months ago
For the past several years, Hong Kong-based fashion designer Marie France Van Damme has spent the week between Christmas and New Year's in Malaysia -- island hopping on a boat with her husband, three sons and their girlfriends.

Blast is the last straw for Lebanese government

6 years 2 months ago
The government of Prime Minister Hassan Diab has resigned. But as CNN's Ben Wedeman reports, the same old political elite, by its very nature, will likely fail to come up anything other than more of the same.

'Fox eyes': Harmless makeup trend or cultural appropriation?

6 years 2 months ago
"Ching chong eyes!" That's what elementary school kids used to call Sophie Wang. It was an insidious racist slur casually thrown around as they mocked her Asian ethnicity while pulling on the corner of their eyes. Upward for Japanese. To the side for Chinese. Downward for Korean.

Beirut blast survivor: The world can't let this chaos go on

6 years 2 months ago
I was meeting my friends at a sidewalk café in the Hamra district for a coffee when the earth shook under our feet. Someone yelled, "Earthquake!" But my friend, who'd lived through the 15-year Lebanese civil war from 1975 to 1990, screamed, "It's an explosion!"
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