In contemplative drama “1982,” writer-director Oualid Mouaness frames an escalating armed conflict, the First Lebanon War, with a prepubescent romance between a boy and a girl from opposites sides of ...

Mireille Rebeiz is affiliated with American Red Cross. Lebanese families have been fleeing the country’s south in the thousands amid escalating tensions and an Israeli bombardment that has so far ...

Tom Barrack, the US special envoy to Syria and Lebanon, has accelerated long-running US support for the disarmament of ...

1982 isn't your typical war film. It's a love story set during growing tensions in the Middle East, when Israel invaded Lebanon 40 years ago. Lebanese filmmaker Oualid Mouaness, inspired by his own ...

Built from old-fashioned sensibilities that serve as both assets and deficits, Oualid Mouaness’ empathetic “1982” feels as though it could have been made during the titular year in which it’s set.

Lebanon's steps toward disarmament have become a test case for the Middle East. It could provide a model for disarming ...