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Made Popular Nov 11 2009
Posted Under Politics & Society

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 have been a perfect year for a country more accustomed to serving as a battleground in...

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Dani Baz, Beirut
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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Marco Villa, Connecticut
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...
made popular Oct 9 2009
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Dani Baz, Beirut
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...
made popular Oct 8 2009
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
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...
made popular Oct 2 2009
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
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....
made popular Sep 26 2009
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Samer, Beirut
A Mideast version of the Bernie Madoff scandal is threatening to tarnish Hezbollah’s reputation in Lebanon for being incorruptible, and the powerful Shiite...
made popular Sep 23 2009
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
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...
made popular Sep 22 2009
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
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...
made popular Sep 19 2009
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
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...
made popular Sep 19 2009
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Wa'd, Amman
The Lebanese president Michel Sulaiman began talks towards nominating the name of the new Prime minister; eyes are on Saa’d Alhariri for this mission, to be his...
made popular Sep 18 2009
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Apr 30 2009 by AP0 Comments

A general freed after nearly four years in jail in connection with the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri said Thursday his release by a U.N.-backed tribunal discredited Lebanon’s judiciary and could shift the country’s fragile political

 
 
Apr 29 2009 by AP0 Comments

Authorities in Lebanon have begun releasing four generals held for four years on suspicion of involvement in the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri after an international judge ordered them released.

 
 
Apr 26 2009 by AP0 Comments

Ahead of an election that could oust the U.S.-backed Beirut government, America’s top diplomat said Sunday that Washington supports “voices of moderation” and never will make a deal Syria that “sells out” Lebanon’s interests.

 
 
Apr 26 2009 by AP0 Comments

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is in Beirut visiting Lebanese officials ahead of a critical election that could see a pro-U.S. government ousted by the militant Shiite Muslim group Hezbollah and its allies.

 
 
Apr 25 2009 by AP0 Comments

Lebanese authorities arrested three men early Saturday for allegedly being part of a spying ring for Israel, security officials said, in the latest episode in the long-running espionage war between the two countries.

 
 
Apr 25 2009 by AP0 Comments

Lebanese authorities arrested three men early Saturday for allegedly being part of spying ring for Israel, security officials said, in the latest episode in the long-running espionage war between the two countries.

 
 
Apr 24 2009 by AP0 Comments

A new parliament to be elected in Lebanon on June 7 will be apportioned among Christian and Muslim sects under a power-sharing formula that also divvies up Lebanon’s main leadership positions by religion.

 
 
Apr 24 2009 by AP0 Comments

With quiet campaigning and moderate talk, Hezbollah is building its strength for Lebanon’s June 7 parliament elections _ and the militant Shiite Muslim group and its allies stand a good chance of winning.

 
 
Mar 17 2009 by AP0 Comments

A Lebanese man arrested three years ago on terrorism charges for allegedly plotting to blow up New York City commuter tunnels has been released on bail, Lebanese officials said Tuesday.

 
 
Mar 16 2009 by AP0 Comments

Lebanon has opened its first ever embassy in Syria in another sign of improving ties between the long-feuding neighboring countries.

 
 
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