A fine new movie, "Lebanon," the winner of the 2009 Venice Film Festival, has just been released in the States. John McCarthy, in a review on our online Culture section, calls it "bracing ...

Journalist John McCarthy, now 63, was released from five years in captivity in Lebanon 29 years ago on 8 August, 1991 ...

Last year, almost thirty years to the week after John McCarthy was freed, I was back in Beirut for some of its darkest days. I say some because Beirut has many dark days in it’s past and sadly ...