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Left: Beirut During 1975-1990 Civil War. Right: Same spot. Beirut reborn.
I often write critically of Lebanon. But my criticism is never an attack against the descent...
made popular Oct 30 2010
I often write critically of Lebanon. But my criticism is never an attack against the descent Lebanese. It is an attack against certain strains within Lebanese culture...
made popular Oct 21 2010
The Iranian President, Mr. Mahmoud AhmadiNejad arrived in Beirut on Wednesday, the 13th of October. That day, along with the coming days of him staying in Lebanon, will...
made popular Oct 15 2010
“The people are all charming to me. They are not really Easter, or anything: just a poor fringe of a people between Islam and the sea, doomed to be pawns in...
made popular Sep 15 2010
Throngs of mourners gathered Tuesday in Beirut to bid farewell to the man considered Hezbollah’s first spiritual leader, Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein...
made popular Jul 7 2010
After having lived abroad for 18 years , in societies where people used to mind their own business, rather than entertain themselves with mean, reputation damaging...
made popular Jun 29 2010
In light of the February 25 incident at Maison Blanche night club in Beirut, involving two young entrepreneurs, Antoun Sehnaoui & Mazen El Zein, we ought to wonder...
made popular May 27 2010
Make lemonade
As it goes, the White House is an incident that was shined, polished, & perfected for a television show, O TV in that case: Extreme Makeover Tayyar...
made popular May 5 2010
The ‘POP, CURSE, SHOOT’ scene rewinded
Recap: Two angry men showing up one night at the Lebanese White House (aka Maison Blanche), one of the hip night...
made popular Apr 30 2010
The Lebanese people are fed up with the way their country is being led, and so, in an attempt to take back their country, they showed up en masse, as thousands...
made popular Apr 27 2010
It has been said and repeated that Mazen el-Zein hurled abusive insults at Antoun Sehnaoui. For a CEO of Antoun’s stature, such a public affront is like a slap in...
made popular Apr 23 2010
Although anger has often been classified as a biologically grounded, universal emotion, it is clear that anger is interpreted, managed, and regulated differently in...
made popular Apr 22 2010
The dynamics and specific mechanisms inherent to the culture of honor is an important topic to study in light of the Maison Blanche night club shooting that took place...
made popular Apr 21 2010
An Ethiopian Airlines passenger plane with 89 people on board has crashed into the Mediterranean Sea shortly after take-off from Beirut airport.
Eyewitnesses say they...
made popular Jan 25 2010
Hezbollah has an image in the West as a thuggish, terrorist Iranian-proxy that shares the same fundamentalist views of Iran. While it is appropriate to state that...
made popular Dec 7 2009
“Beirut Diaries” is a documentary (directed by a Palestinian-American) set in the days following the spring 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime...
made popular Dec 4 2009
Lebanese troops found and dismantled four rockets near the border with Israel on Wednesday, a day after a brief flare-up across the tense boundary, a Lebanese military...
made popular Oct 29 2009
As they say: Talking, or typing in this case, is much easier than experiencing or seeing. What the writer, who seems to have so much love for Lebanon due to his ...
made popular Oct 13 2009
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Prior to Lebanon’s devastating 15-year civil war between rightists Christians and leftists Muslims, Beirut was the main cultural city in the Middle East.
The...
made popular Aug 26 2009
The plight of Syrian workers - as with Asian maids - is one of the most under-reported stories about Lebanon, a nation that that ostensibly claims it is the Paris of...
made popular Apr 16 2009
[Outside the Egyptian embassy in Beirut]
The Egyptian government’s silence to the suffering of Palestinians at the hands of Israel, and the meeting of foreign...
made popular Jan 3 2009
The good news is that the freelance American journalists who went missing in Lebanon earlier this month have been found... in a Syrian jail. Yesterday, just a day after...
made popular Oct 11 2008
The United States said two American journalists who went missing in Lebanon a week ago are now in U.S. custody in Damascus after Syria arrested them for allegedly...
made popular Oct 10 2008
Hezbollah have seized most of western Beirut, the pro-government media is shut and possibly Lebanon is on the edge of a planned civil war. According to Lebanon’s...
made popular May 10 2008
Shiite Hezbollah gunmen seized control of key parts of Beirut from Sunnis loyal to the U.S.-backed government Friday, a dramatic show-of-force certain to strengthen the...
made popular May 9 2008
The annual Arab League summit opens in Damascus today amid deep divisions over the crisis in Lebanon and unhappiness at growing Iranian influence in the Middle...
made popular Mar 29 2008
t’s Saturday night in a trendy nightclub of the capital. Alcohol flows freely and men and women are dancing wildly to the rhythm of a hip tune. Some daring young...
made popular Mar 13 2008
Don Sheridan rang me a few days before his death. I was walking on the Beirut Corniche when my mobile purred and there was my 78-year-old Irish friend, calling, as he...
made popular Mar 6 2008
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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, shakes hands with Lebanese President Michel Suleiman, right, at the Lebanese Presidential Palace, in Baabda east of Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday April 26, 2009. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham...
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