Lebanon Photo
Diary, Lebanese News in Pictures.
Pictures of recent events in Lebanon.
This page is updated frequently. For more pictures please visit the photographic archive.
For photographs of the Israeli withdrawal from south Lebanon click here.
A Lebanese fan of the Argentine team taking part in the World Cup looks on as a street vendor fixes the Argentine flag on the antenna of her car at a Beirut intersection. Flags of the teams favourite to win the World Cup has adorned buildings, cars and streets of Lebanese cities and villages. Picture taken June 3, 2002.
Singer Enrique Iglesias with one of his dancers performs for Lebanese fans in Beirut on Sunday, June 9, 2002. The Latin artist gave a one-night show Sunday, his first in the country.
Lebanese Christian Melchite bishop Gregoire Haddad ices his face to keep it from swelling after being attacked by a man who objected to the cleric's liberal religious and political views. Haddad, 78, renowed for his calls for tolerance among the confessional groups that clashed during Lebanon's 1975-1990 civil war, was stopped and beaten outside a television studio Friday, June 14, 2001 by a Christian man who witnesses said denounced Haddad's views. Picture taken June 14, 2002.
An Israeli soldier holds a flag pole while another positions it as two other soldiers watch on an outpost just a few meters (yards) from the electronic fence that marks Israel's border with Lebanon near the Lebanese village of Labbouneh on Wednesday June 19, 2002. Despite reports of rising tension between Israel and the Hezbollah there has been no visible evidence of a military buildup along the border.
A Palestinian demonstrator carries guns as demonstrators wave portraits of Yasser Arafat and shout slogans against President Bush during a demonstration at the Ein el-Hilweh refugee camp near the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, Friday June 28, 2002. About 300 protesters burned the U.S. and Israeli flags to protest what the say is Bush's support of Israel.
Lebanese soccer fans dance with Brazilian flags in Beirut, Lebanon Sunday
June 30, 2002, as they celebrate after Brazil beat Germany 2-0 in the 2002
World Cup final in Yokohama, Japan. Brazil won their fifth World Cup title.