The Beirut refugee camp offering children a lifeline through cricket ...Middle East

Good news has been thin on the ground in the Middle East in recent months, the majority of headlines focusing on conflict, escalation and an increasingly uncertain future in a region that is no stranger to crisis. Deep in the Shatila refugee camp, first set up in southern Beirut for Palestinian refugees in 1949, though, lies one of global sport’s best-kept secrets – an unlikely beacon of hope through a project offering displaced children from across the region the opportunity to play a game that has never previously gained a foothold in the Arab world: cricket. Just 24 hours after England’s sensational win in Hyderabad, on a cold January evening in the UK, The Independent is given the chan

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