Archive for May, 2009
Ziad Baroud annonce un important plan de sécurité pour éviter tout dérapage pendant les législatives
Nous allons déployer 30.000 soldats et policiers autour des bureaux de vote et des régions avoisinantes et 20.000 ailleurs à travers tout le pays“, a indiqué à l’AFP le ministre de l’Intérieur Ziad Baroud dimanche. Ziad Baroud est un indépendant au sein du gouvernement d’union nationale. Le plan établi par les autorités “tient compte des […]
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To all those living abroad, LBC has made it easy for us to keep an eye on the Lebanese Elections this time around. LBCNews.net has an interactive map of the elections in Lebanon, and my favorite, a legal way of watching the most viewed political (and independent) show of the charismatic Marcel Ghanem’s Kalam el Nass. The portal unfortunately does […]
Filed under: Lebanese Elections 2009, Lebanese Media | 1 Comment
Sir George Anthony Arab 87. It is with deep sorrow and heavy hearts that we announce the peaceful passing of a truly distinguished gentleman. A beloved husband, father, grandfather and great-grandfather, George Arab passed away on May 25, 2009, at home, surrounded by his loving family. George was born in 1922 in Diman, Lebanon. The […]
Filed under: Lebanese Expatriates | 4 Comments
Tags: George Arab
Errata – Angry Arab News Service
You may have heard of the Angry Arab News Service. Yesterday, Asad Abu Khalil, author of the blog, stated the following: March 8 and their supporters are denying the obvious*: that Gen. Aoun has lost support among Christians since 2005. I saw one survey in Metn* which indicated that Aoun support among Maronites stands at no more […]
Filed under: Lebanese Blogosphere | 5 Comments
Tags: Angry Arab News Service, aoun, Asad Abu Khalil
Search for Common Ground (SFCG), an international conflict transformation NGO, created Kilna Bil Hayy, or “All of Us in the Neighborhood,” in the hope of enlightening young viewers to the commonalities shared between Lebanon’s different communities. The 13-part series, which was funded by Denmark’s Rockwool Foundation, focuses on six families who live in the same […]
Filed under: Circle Ethics, Strictly Lebanese | 2 Comments
Tags: Kilna Bil Hayy, LBC, NGO, Search for Common Ground
Dance monkeys, dance
Nothing inspires me to put this among this circle than a deep conviction of a well worth viral.
Filed under: Analysis, Inner Circle Ethics, Video | 2 Comments
Tags: self-awareness
I was thrilled when U.S. President Barak Obama appointed Senator Joseph Biden as his running mate last year. Yesterday, he stood in Beyrouth, along side our president exchanging hugs and wishes. It is the first such high U.S. profile to visit Beyrouth since 1983. VICE PRESIDENT BIDEN: President — President Suleiman, thank you very much […]
Filed under: American Culture, Lebanese Expatriates, Middle East | 1 Comment
Tags: Beirut, Joseph Biden, Micheal Suleiman, US Foreign Policy
Within this labored recovery, tourism forecasts had a history of being rather unreliable in Lebanon and expectations for massive growth in inbound tourism have been hyped repeatedly beyond what proved possible over the years. Expectations of finally breaking the 2 million mark sometimes looked genuine such as in 2006 when 460,000 visitors were counted in […]
Filed under: Aggregated, Analysis, Lebanese Expatriates | 1 Comment
Tags: 2009, Tourism, tourists, visitors
Spectacle – “Et Maintenant ?…”
Un grand spectacle sur les 7 000 ans du Liban depuis les Phéniciens, les Grecs, les Romains, les Mamelouks, les Ottomans…, aura lieu : le dimanche 24 mai 2009 à 16h00 et à 19h au Palais de l’Unesco – salle I 125 avenue de Suffren, Paris VIIe avec le parrainage du Sénat, l’association des Maires […]
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“Zay Ma Hiyy… wil sama zar’ka”
The Future Movement of Saad el Hariri has a great political consulting firm, which coined the term and humorously used by Sayed Nasrallah in a recent speech. A battle of creative campaigns in Lebanon are taking toll, this year being the most expensive and organized campaigns in Lebanon’s history; The Change & Reform block and the Future Movement have stood […]
Filed under: Analysis, Lebanese Elections 2009 | 2 Comments
Tags: political consulting firm
Le programme de l’édition 2009 du festival international de Byblos (20 juin – 12 août) a été annoncé hier mardi, et les amateurs de musique ne devraient pas être déçus… Les amoureux de la musique ne peuvent pas manquer le prochain festival de Byblos 2009, qui leur offre un rendez-vous incontournable avec de vraies légendes […]
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Tags: 2009, Byblos Festival, Tourism
Beiteddine Summer Festival 2009
This years line up of artists for the Beiteddine festival are simply sublime! The opening of the Beiteddine festival on July 2nd will lead the stage by Egyptian Diva Oum Kalsoum, followed by French legend Charles Aznavour on the 9th of July, and the much loved Gad el Maleh three days later on the 13th & […]
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Tags: Beiteddine, Summer Festivals
Lebanese on facebook networked their way to social activism which is largely becoming a medium in Lebanon. With a population of around 4 million Lebanese residing in the country and that number multiplied abroad, Lebanese have managed to convince management in Kuwait to retract the decision of banning alcohol at that supermarket. Update : In […]
Filed under: Activism, Strictly Lebanese | 10 Comments
Tags: alcohol, Sultan, supermarket, TSC Boycott
Filed under: nightlife, Strictly Lebanese | 7 Comments
Tags: Girls of Lebanon, lebanese girls, nightlife, social norms
I received this message from several sources, and seems to be a niched hyped up affair. Read it if you haven’t been on the forwarding list. TSC Plus (ex Monoprix) supermarket vend l’alcool dans une section fermée et bien isolée. Votre ‘honteuse’ bouteille d’alcool, vous devez la payer à une caisse à part! DEKKANE qui […]
Filed under: Activism, Strictly Lebanese | 12 Comments
Tags: alcohol, Boycott, DEKKANE, Sultan Center, supermarket, TSC, TSC Plus
Opinion: La Francophonie porte en elle un message essentiel de diversité, un moyen d’exprimer et de célébrer la richesse des cultures humaines. La Francophonie est, pour nous tous, une maniére de dire que l’universalité culturelle n’est pas la banalisation. C’est aussi une incitation pour une cooperation plus approfondie avec d’autres communautés partout dans le monde […]
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Tags: Francophonie en Egypt
To appease the Christian community in Lebanon before the June 7th elections, the Free Patriotic Movement also known as the Change and Reform bloc said yesterday there were four main issues that needed to be resolved for Lebanese-Syrian relationship to improve, MP Ghassan Mukhaiber lists: The issue of Lebanese missing or detained in Syria; Border […]
Filed under: Strictly Lebanese | 4 Comments
Tags: FPM, Ghassan Mukhaiber, Lebanese Syrian Relations, Tayyar
I post this to the people who won’t be forwarded by this, since I am sure this is making more its viral among Jews, Christians and Islamophobes. [Watch First] Not sure what to make of it. The producers make it sound as if it’s bad. Who says how the world is now – is the proper […]
Filed under: Analysis, Inner Circle Ethics, World Affairs | 4 Comments
Tags: identity, Islam, Islamophobia, Muslim demographics
Director Jacky Salloum first cought the beats of DAM, a Palestinian hip hop group based out of Israel/Palestine, and thats how this circle caught up to Slingshot Hiphop. DAM was founded in 1999 by brothers Tamar and Suhell Nafar and their friend Mahmoud Jreri. The group’s name is the Arabic verb for “to last forever” […]
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Tags: DAM, Gaza, hip hop, Jacky Salloum, Mahmoud Jreri, Palestinian, rap, Slingshot Hiphop, Suhell Nafar, Tamar Nafar
With the recent release of the four generals, the international tribunal in the Netherlands was left with no suspects in custody, after a four-year U.N. investigation. The tribunal’s decision — after prosecutors said there was not enough evidence to justify detention. Who do you think, as an observer, ordered the killing of our ex-Prime Minister Rafik Hariri […]
Filed under: Opinion | 2 Comments
Tags: Hariri, murder, Poll, TSL
