According to the United Nations, a slum is an area of a city mostly characterized ... The Independent Kidnapped journalist Austin Tice went missing in Syria 12 years ago. The Assad regime collapse ...

Labaki had cast Zain Al Rafeea – then a 12-year-old living in the slums of Beirut with his family that had been forced to flee from the city of Daraa in southwestern Syria – as the young ...