News stories by Rebecca Murray

BEIRUT, Dic 28 (IPS) - As refugees from Syria continue to pour into Lebanon, the majority of children are not going to school, spurring concern that they will become a ‘lost generation'.

NAHR EL BARED, Dic 15 (IPS) - As the Syrian war intensifies sectarian clashes in Lebanon's northern coastal city Tripoli, Palestinians in the area worriedly watch the violence from the sidelines.

BEIRUT, Nov 24 (IPS) - Married women in Lebanon who suffer abuse at home remain at the mercy of the country's multitude of religious courts, because the hard-fought civil law against domestic violence has been stalled for a vote in parliament since the summer.

SIDON, Lebanon, Oct 16 (IPS) - This week the Islamic world marks one of its holiest holidays, Eid al-Adha - honouring Ibrahim's commitment to sacrifice his first-born son to Allah. The festival involves large family gatherings, bountiful lunches and generous gift giving.

SANAA, Jun 29 (IPS) - As the month of Ramadan nears, shop owners in Sanaa's old city souk stock up on goods. For men like Ali Al-Fakri, who sells jambiyahs, Yemen's traditional daggers held in place with richly embroidered belts, the gift-giving holiday marking Ramadan's end is the busiest time of the year.

SANAA, Jun 25 (IPS) - Yemen's population is increasing at a rapid rate, straining the country's dwindling natural resources and setting up its youth for a grim future, with few jobs and scant means to get by.

SOUTHERN LIBYA, May 17 (IPS) - Kaltoum Saleh, 18, is elated to graduate from her overcrowded high school in the remote Saharan town of Ubari, near the Algerian border.

SANAA, Apr 01 (IPS) - Yemen has launched its six-month National Dialogue but creating a just law is proving a formidable task.

SANA'A, Feb 16 (IPS) - This week in Sana'a thousands of Yemenis – mostly youth - crowded the highway near the landmark ‘Change Square' to celebrate the second anniversary of the revolution. Adjacent to the university, this was the site of a tented encampment that drew tens of thousands of demonstrators throughout 2011.

, Jan 05 (IPS) - Yemeni women have played an integral role in the protests against ex-President Ali Abdullah Saleh's 33-year regime last year. But despite the country's upcoming political ‘National Dialogue' - brokered by Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries and intended to bring together a cross-section of Yemeni constituencies - females still face a wall of discriminatory laws and practices, and a status quo willing to enforce them.