Environment Minister Mohammed al-Mashnouq stressed on Saturday that the cabinet would reach a decision on the waste management file by January …

BEIRUT—Leaders and politicians throughout the Middle East have roundly condemned the attack in Paris, but in a region facing its own violence and attacks on freedom of expression, the news from France was widely met with a nod and shrug.

“The most minor things here aren’t guaranteed, so people don’t care about other things. Here their concerns are water, electricity and livelihood,” said Rana Idriss, the decorator at Gustav Patisserie, a family-owned bakery where macaroons and fruit tarts serve as reminders for the more than two decades Lebanon spent under French rule. “Maybe because here we have gotten used to these things, no one talks about it anymore.”

On Friday Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah said groups like al Qaeda do more to offend the Prophet Muhammad than the cartoons mocking him. But many had other concerns.

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