Deir El Ahmar (Arabic: دير الأحمر) is a Lebanese town, located 100km from Beirut and 22km northwest of Baalbek in the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon.

[2] Deir el Ahmar's climate is mild during spring and autumn, dry and warm in summer, and cold during winter.

[1] During the Byzantine period the Saydet el Borj (Our Lady of the Tower) church was built on the ruins of the temple of Jupiter.

[3][1] During the period from the 16th–19th centuries, Maronite shepherds from Niha, Becharre and Aakoura established in the region around Deir el Ahmar, where better grazing was available.

[5] In the 19th century other maronite families from Becharre, Aakoura, Byblos and Batroun established and formed the village of Deir el Ahmar.

[2] Our Lady of the Tower Church (Saydet el Borj) was built on the ruins of the temple of Jupiter during the Byzantine era.

Traditional clothes are worn for folkloric occasions, men wear "sherwal", the "Ghombaz" and "tarboush" or "Kafiat and Ighal" on their heads, and women wear "abbaya".On special occasions (weddings and young burials), people from Deir El ahmar shoot bullets into the air.

Their aim is to promote women's role in rural development and welfare of society in the region around Deir el Ahmar.

WADA's geographical focus is a wide area of 157 square kilometres (61 sq mi), including 33 municipalities around Deir el Ahmar, Baalbeck and Hermel, in the north of the Bekaa valley in Lebanon.

[8][9] With the aid of local and international institutions, WADA have been involved in the following projects: Deir el Ahmar's location in the fertile Beqaa Valley makes agriculture its main economical activity.

[10] Deir el Ahmar, like the rest of the Beqaa Valley, has good potential for tourism due to the mild climate, pristine nature, and the variety of historical and archaeological sites.