Archive for May, 2010
Occupation, édification du mur, colonisation, spoliations, accaparement de Jérusalem… Plus que jamais, le gouvernement israélien est dans le déni total des droits des Palestiniens et noyé dans sa politique de la force. Dans l’opinion publique des principaux pays alliés d’Israël, cette situation est de plus en plus dénoncée et les initiatives menées par la société [...]
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Tags: Alain Gresh, Nahla Chahal, Raji Sourani, Stephen Walt, Yael Lerer
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Tags: Al Jazeera, Blue Line, border, Hezbollah, Israel, Lebanon, U.N.
fi:af’s World Nomads Festival, which opened May 1st with a concert by Bassam Saba ensemble, seems to be the core of the Big Apple’s Lebanon mania. The annual event is comprised of multidisciplinary attractions that explore identity through the arts of one specific location and its expatriate community. Lebanon is this spring’s invité d’honneur. Given Lebanon’s large expatriate [...]
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Tags: FIAF, French Institute alliance francaise, World Nomads Lebanon
As you know, the Tabacco Free Initiative project of law is being currently discussed in the Commission for Administration and Justice. Your support is very important to show the people responsible of these discussions that an important part of the Lebanese population supports a law based on 3 main points: 1- Total ban of smoking in [...]
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Tags: Legislation, Tobacco Control
The Rafik B. Hariri Building is named in memory of the late two-time prime minister of Lebanon, noted philanthropist, and ardent advocate of education, through a gift from his son, Saad Hariri, the newly designated prime minister of Lebanon and a 1992 alumnus of the McDonough School of Business. “This facility will provide a world [...]
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Tags: Georgetown University, McDonough School of Business, Rafik B. Hariri, Rafik Hariri Building
(Reuters) – The Obama administration is looking for ways to build up “moderate elements” within the Lebanese Hezbollah guerrilla movement and to diminish the influence of hard-liners. John Brennan, assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism, met with Lebanese leaders during a recent visit. Hezbollah is a very interesting organization,” Brennan told a [...]
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Tags: Hezbollah, Nasrallah, Obama Administration, White House
“There should be no more excuses for low connectivity in Lebanon,” Yvon Le Roux, Cisco vice president in Middle East said on Wednesday. The remarks were made during a press conference that took place at the InterContinental Le Vendome Hotel. The conference announced the launching of the Cisco Entrepreneur Institute (CEI) in Lebanon, a school-like [...]
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Tags: Cisco, Entrepreneur Institute, Yvon Le Roux
