Archive for the ‘Analysis’ Category
With the indictment soon to be announced, Lebanese catch their last breath this Christmas holiday and New Years Eve. All the best from me and everybody here among the circle. As we grip ourselves to a next phase in Lebanese history, expect lots of international media attention. Not concerning Lebanon’s natural beauty, but those local, [...]
Filed under: Analysis, Opinion, Special Tribunal for Lebanon | Leave a Comment
Tags: Hariri, Liban, Special Tribunal, STL, tribunal, Wissam Eid
Throughts on iPad
How many times have you crossed a site and couldn’t play the video, seen the address or phone number of a Flashy restaurent. The iPad without Flash is just experiencing part of the internet.
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Tags: flash, internet, iPad
Le développement de l’économie de rente (hydrocarbures, aides des émigrés, aides internationales, etc.) dans les pays arabes constitue un facteur majeur non seulement de retard économique mais de déficit démocratique également. La conférence de M. Georges Corm portera sur la « paresse » économique et technologique des pays arabes, comparée au dynamisme des pays du sud-est [...]
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Tags: économie de dépendance, Georges Corm
From the lack of local blogs mentioning this, I’d like to share some not well circulated news concerning the Middle East with the circle. Recently news have been pouring concerning the Middle East pointing to a big change in policy for Israel and it’s increasingly uncomfortable position, what no one expected was, secret talks with [...]
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Tags: Iran, Israel, Russia, Syria
Ideology… takes decades to refine. Forgive my bluntness, as a bias observer only to the Christian seats in the Metn Area, more precisely one seat, actually it’s the difference in number of votes. I really don’t care what the other goons are doing, they’re lowering the standard of what to expect. Also, I have stated my predictions [...]
Filed under: Analysis, Lebanese Elections 2009, Plain Talking | 1 Comment
Tags: Catholics, Christians, culture, customs, Hezbollah, ideology, Lebanese Christians, Maronites, Orthodox, Shiites
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
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
