Palestinian Afife Atieh plays the tambourine during community Christmas dinner for elderly residents at the only majority-Christian Palestinian refugee camp, in Dbayeh, north of Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, December 21, 2022. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians fled or were forced from their homes during the 1948 Mideast war over Israel's creation. Today, several million Palestinian refugees and their descendants are scattered across Jordan, Syria and Lebanon, as well as the West Bank and Gaza, lands Israel captured in 1967. (Photo by Bilal Hussein/AP Photo)





People walk past Christmas decorations at a Christmas market in Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, December 21, 2022. The economic crisis has forced a drastic lifestyle change for most of the country, struggling to afford skyrocketing costs for Christmas gifts, presents, and celebrations the way they once did. (Photo by Bilal Hussein/AP Photo)





A Lebanese woman carries her child and rings a bell as she stands next to a man dressed as Santa Claus at a Christmas market in Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, December 21, 2022. (Photo by Bilal Hussein/AP Photo)





People walk past Christmas decorations at the upscale Beirut Souks, Lebanon, Wednesday, December 21, 2022. (Photo by Bilal Hussein/AP Photo)





A band performs a folkloric dance around a Christmas tree in the Lebanon's capital Beirut's Martyr square on November 24, 2022. (Photo by Anwar Amro/AFP Photo)





Protesters stand in front of burning tires they set on fire, in front the Central Bank building, where the anti-government demonstrators rally against the Lebanese Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh and the deepening financial crisis in Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, January 25, 2023. Dozens protested in front of the Central Bank, denouncing the slide of the Lebanese pound, which began in 2019. The value of the pound hit a new low last Thursday, trading at 50,000 to the dollar, as the country's deeply divided Parliament failed to elect a president for the eleventh time. (Photo by Hassan Ammar/AP Photo)





Anti-government protesters scuffle with riot police outside the ministry of Justice, in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, January 26, 2023. Scores of protesters Thursday scuffled with riot police as they tried to break into the Beirut Justice Palace, rejecting an order from Lebanon's judiciary that further crippled the probe into a massive port explosion over two years ago. (Photo by Hassan Ammar/AP Photo)





A family who fled the war in Syria and live in Beirut, sit outside their home following an earthquake that hit neighboring Turkey early Monday, February 6, 2023, in south of Beirut, Lebanon. Many residents in Lebanon left their homes and took to the streets or drove in their cars away from buildings. A powerful earthquake hit southeast Turkey and Syria early Monday, toppling buildings and sending panicked residents pouring outside in a cold winter night. (Photo by Hussein Malla/AP Photo)





A demonstrator gestures near a bank, set on fire, during a protest organized by Depositors' Outcry, a group campaigning for angry depositors, against informal restrictions on cash withdrawals and deteriorating economic conditions in Beirut, Lebanon on February 16, 2023. (Photo by Mohamed Azakir/Reuters)





Hatmaker Youssef Akiki inspects some of his traditional “Labbadeh” hats at his workshop in the mountain village of Hrajel in Keserwan-Jbeil province on January 27, 2023. High in Lebanon's rugged mountains, Akiki is among the last practising the thousand-year-old skill of making warm wool caps once worn by mountaineers during the snows of winter. (Photo by Joseph Eid/AFP Photo)





An old woman looks on as a carnival participant dressed in a costume and wearing body paint takes part in the annual Zambo carnival held in Lebanon's northern city of Tripoli, on February 26, 2023, marking the last period of excess on the eve of the Christian Greek Orthodox lent. The inspiration of the annual Zambo celebration is unclear, despite it being a tradition that stretches back over a century to when an emigrant to Brazil returned to his native Tripoli bringing the carnival with him. (Photo by Fathi Al-Masri/AFP Photo)





A woman shops at a supermarket in Beirut, Lebanon, 01 March 2023. Prices of goods in supermarkets are declared in US dollars after the Lebanese caretaker Minister of Economy and Trade had announced on 28 February 2023 that – starting from 01 March 2023 on – supermarkets can start pricing their goods in US dollar amid the country's economic crisis and the weakness of the Lebanese Lira. The decision however does not include vegetables, fruit and tobacco products. The Lira on parallel markets was traded at 88,000 per US dollar on 01 March, which is about more than five times the official rate of 15,000 against the US currency. (Photo by Wael Hamzeh/EPA)





An empty classroom in a closed public school is seen in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, March 2, 2023. Public schools have been open for fewer than 50 days this school year because teachers are on strike, protesting dramatic currency devaluations that slashed their salaries to about $20 a month. (Photo by Hussein Malla/AP Photo)





Store displays advertising in Arabic that reads “Italian clothes and shoes for 9.99 $” in Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, March 1, 2023. Lebanon started pricing consumer goods in U.S. dollars Wednesday as the value of the Lebanese pound hit new lows. (Photo by Hassan Ammar/AP Photo)





A visitor looks at a woman dressed up as part of an interactive art installation to spread awareness about communication organized by the Al Hadi Institute for Deaf, Blind and Learning Disabilities during the Arab Forum for Sustainable Development that was held at the United Nations headquarters in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, March 14, 2023. (Photo by Bilal Hussein/AP Photo)





A Lebanese man chants slogans against Riad Salameh, Lebanon's Central Bank governor, in front of the Justice Palace in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, March 16, 2023. Lebanon's embattled Central Bank chief appeared Thursday for questioning for the first time before a European legal team visiting Beirut in a money-laundering probe linked to the governor. (Photo by Bilal Hussein/AP Photo)





A runner gestures for photographers as she competes in the Women's Race in Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, March 19, 2023. The Beirut Marathon Women's Race took place under the message “Draw your Path”, a call for all women in Lebanon to keep moving forward and to rise to the challenges of everyday. (Photo by Hussein Malla/AP Photo)





Women take part in the 9th edition of Women's Race 2023, a ten kilometer run in Beirut, Lebanon, 19 March 2023. Around 1,500 runners participated in the Women's Race under the slogan “Draw Your Path”. The event was organized to address all Lebanese women to keep moving forward and to rise to the challenges of every day. (Photo by Wael Hamzeh/EPA)





A runner takes part in the 9th edition of Women's Race 2023, a ten kilometer run in Beirut, Lebanon, 19 March 2023. (Photo by Wael Hamzeh/EPA)





A Lebanese runner cheers as she competes in the Women's Race in Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, March 19, 2023. (Photo by Hussein Malla/AP Photo)





A runner celebrates her 10km run after participating in the 9th edition of the Women's Race in Beirut on March 19, 2023, under the slogan “Draw Your Path”. (Photo by Anwar Amro/AFP Photo)





Lebanese actress Rita Hayek shows her 10km medal after participating in the 9th edition of the Women's Race in Beirut on March 19, 2023, under the slogan “Draw Your Path”. (Photo by Anwar Amro/AFP Photo)