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...

“Beirut Diaries” is a documentary (directed by a Palestinian-American) set in the days following the spring 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime...

Four years ago, at 16, Rana’s husband forced her into prostitution. Despite the risks of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), Rana, like many local sex workers -...

Meet the Joe Isuzu of Lebanon: Zayn al-Athat (for those unfamiliar with American culture Isuzu was a lying spokesperson who appeared in Japanese cars ads). Zayn...

There is something terribly wrong in Beirut, Lebanon. Female migrant domestic workers are apparently killing themselves in droves, at least one per week, according to...

It’s been an almost endless summer in Lebanon, with beach weather and relative political harmony continuing well into November. The only thing marring what could...

In the last few months, several videos or documentaries shown in North America about the Lebanese have misrepresented them and their culture. For instance, Oprah’s...

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...

Israel often likes to brag that it is ostensible “the only democracy in the Middle East.” Considering that this “democracy” is a...

Second only to Israel, no nation has mistreated the Palestinians worst than Lebanon. Although Palestinians refugees live in squalor in all Arab nations (and the...

When I heard the news that Lebanon had won a seat on the rotating part of the Security Council (made up of five permanent members and 10 rotating 2-year non-renewable...

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 ...

I have recently been having a back-and-forth with an IB member from Lebanon. He accuses me of attacking his country. I am doing anything but: I never attack Lebanon or...

As noticed in many articles, Lebanon was fought by a writer for reasons I don’t understand, probably he doesn’t either. The real truth of Lebanon started...

There may not be a nation with a more delusion and grotesque form of nationalism than Lebanese nationalism. When ever I think of Lebanese flag-waving I am reminded of...

It is the time of the “Wimpy Operation” in Lebanon. Why is it called “Wimpy,” I don’t know, but the honored man was anything but wimpy....

A Mideast version of the Bernie Madoff scandal is threatening to tarnish Hezbollah’s reputation in Lebanon for being incorruptible, and the powerful Shiite...

In 1936, while attending the Berlin Olympic Games a young Lebanese athlete, Pierre Gemayel, admired the organization and fierce nationalism of the Nazis and founded...

Do you know why we call Hummus “Hummus”? Because it is a Syrian delicacy from the Syrian town of Homs. Well, maybe not. But that makes a good story. But...

Time for a new week in review of Occupied Palestine. First, Britain’s +six-million strong TUC union voted in favor of a partial boycott of Israeli goods. Union...