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Foreign domestic workers continue to be grossly mistreated in the Middle East. They are often abused, tortured and many wind up dead at the hands of their abusive employers who probably treat their animals better than they do their maids. It has...
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Ironically, this occurred during “Israel Apartheid Week”. Will any of the organizers even know about it? Will the incident make the mainstream media?
Of course...
made popular Mar 17 2011
BEIRUT, Lebanon — A prime minister chosen by Hezbollah and its allies won enough support on Monday to form Lebanon’s government, unleashing angry protests that...
made popular Jan 25 2011
Even in a nation whose political class if often staffed with opportunists and shifting alliances almost always based on narrow sectarian considerations or foreign...
made popular Jan 25 2011
Hezbollah Secretary General Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah has offered his condolences to Iran over the recent terrorist attack in southeastern city of Chabahar, which killed...
made popular Dec 16 2010
Going through the newspaper the other day, I came across some sad news about a 12-year-old chimpanzee that had been evacuated from a zoo in Lebanon because people there...
made popular Nov 30 2010
Isn’t it amazing to witness how the entire world has become so mechanic, so controlled, so fake, so unreal, to an extent, one must zoom in on a handful of places...
made popular Nov 29 2010
Wave of arrests among officials in Lebanese mobile phone operators - all on suspicions of spying for Israel - also reflects just how close cooperation has become...
made popular Nov 23 2010
When a maid starts her journey to come to Lebanon to work as a housemaid she starts an adventure to become a better person and better educated in the right way to act...
made popular Nov 23 2010
A Lebanese police officer and U.N. investigators unearthed extensive circumstantial evidence implicating the Syrian-backed Hezbollah movement in the February 2005...
made popular Nov 22 2010
The Israeli government is due to discuss plans to withdraw troops from the northern half of a village, deemed by the UN to be inside Lebanon.
made popular Nov 17 2010
It is well-known that the Lebanese Army is a joke. This is an army which has never defended the borders of Lebanon. Even in the 1948 war, the Lebanese army never did...
made popular Nov 16 2010
Israel always claims it is the victim subject to threats of annihilation by its Arab neighbors, but this is a Zionist propaganda lie. No nation has engaged in acts of...
made popular Nov 15 2010
This week, President George W. Bush will release his memoirs. Titled “Decision Points” and unlike past memoirs which are a retelling of life in the White...
made popular Nov 10 2010
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
In 1942, Freya Stark visited Lebanon and wrote in his “Letters from Syria”, ‘The people are all charming to me. They are not really Eastern, or...
made popular Oct 28 2010
Lebanon has long been mired in conflict and setback due to sectarian antagonism in the country. Despite a brief between 1958-1964, successive governments have been in...
made popular Oct 23 2010
Lebanon, not the United States, may be home to the most expensive elections.
A trend started by Rafiq Hariri, former slain prime minister. Hariri made his billions in...
made popular Oct 22 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
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According to reliable sources, in Lebanon, Iranian president M. Ahmadi-Nejad’s movements had been closely monitored with Israeli drone transmitting his speeches...
made popular Oct 18 2010
So Iranian dictator and religious fanatic Ahmadinejad visited Lebanon this week.
Of course, has been traveling to numerous countries since elected in 2005 and then...
made popular Oct 16 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 Lebanese government (or Hizballah) has gone to a great deal of trouble to provide Iran’s president Achmadinejad with a replica of the in southern Lebanon so he...
made popular Oct 6 2010
“The Truth” was the rallying cry for hundreds of thousands of angry Lebanese who took to the streets of Beirut five years ago demanding to know who was...
made popular Sep 24 2010
When the Angry Arab speaks, the people listen.
Lebanese-American academic As’ad Abu Khalil is one of the most astute, sharp, well-read and humorous commentators...
made popular Sep 21 2010
Anyone but the real Christians.
Lebanon is a delicate nation constantly on the verge of civil war. The sectarian balance and sensibilities and anxieties of each...
made popular Sep 17 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
Bahraini officials announced on Saturday that they were charging 23 people, most of them activists from the Shiite majority, with coordinating a violent campaign to...
made popular Sep 6 2010
Contemporary slavery, or very close to it.
That is the conclusion of the Economist in its recent piece on the horrific abuse of foreign maids working in the Middle...
made popular Sep 3 2010
A mosque in the American heartland.
A key argument made by opponents of Park51 is that “They don’t allow churches to be build in Saudi Arabia, or...
made popular Sep 2 2010
Syria and the Lebanese-based Hezbollah Shiite group have signed a defense pact that includes broad-based “field understandings,” according to a report in...
made popular Sep 1 2010
American support for Israeli wars.
The United States has a rule: Only Israel is allowed to defend itself. While Arabs are expected to simply accept Israeli...
made popular Aug 28 2010
A week of events in the Apartheid State, the last remaining one, In Occupied Palestine A.K.A. “Israel”.
Yes, Israel is a racist state based on racist...
made popular Aug 28 2010
Standing in the narrow streets of Shatila refugee camp, south Beirut, as battered mopeds speed past and electrical wires dangle messily overhead, seven-year-old Hasan...
made popular Aug 26 2010
I have told this tale tell before, but now with a just reward.
It is well-known that the Lebanese Army is a joke. This is an army which has never defended the borders...
made popular Aug 21 2010
Lebanon’s parliament has, after long delay, passed a law which allows Palestinian refugees to work legally.
There are an estimated 400,000 Palestinians living in...
made popular Aug 18 2010
Finally an Arab minister with dignity.
It is stated White Paper, official American policy that the United States supports an Israeli military hegemony in the Middle...
made popular Aug 13 2010
The international tribunal investigating the 2005 killing of a former Lebanese prime minister, Rafik Hariri, requested Wednesday that Hezbollah turn over evidence that...
made popular Aug 12 2010
Finally an Arab minister with dignity.
It is stated White Paper, official American policy that the United States supports an Israeli military hegemony in the Middle...
made popular Aug 12 2010
Hezbollah demonstrates its capabilities against Israel.
It a news conference that was carried live for 2hours by al Jazeera and greatly impressed the Arab world,...
made popular Aug 11 2010
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Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II receives the President of Lebanon General Michel Sleiman, and his wife, Wafaa Sleiman, at Buckingham Palace in central London, Wednesday April 29, 2009.
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