BEIRUT (AP) — Jennifer Shedid had just arrived home from school and she was hungry. As she asked her older sister what she could eat, a massive explosion shook their entire block and turned the glass ...

BEIRUT — In a makeshift gym in the Burj al-Barajneh refugee camp, the participants in this martial arts class are unlearning much of what they have been taught about how girls and women should behave.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nariman Al-Issa, 12, a Syrian orphan girl who lost four members of her family during an Israeli strike on Beirut southern suburbs, ...

Najwa Mostafa, 15, is a Syrian living in the Shatila refugee camp in Beirut. "The role of a girl in this life should be to study and take it seriously, and not waste her time with unimportant things." ...

Palestinian girls train in jiu jitsu in the refugee camp of Bourj el Barajneh in South Beirut. (Aline Deschamps for NPR) BEIRUT — In a makeshift gym in the Burj al-Barajneh refugee camp, the ...

In the male-dominated world of Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon, a martial arts teacher offers women a way to empowerment. In Beirut, refugee girls and women learn more than self-defense in ...