Archive for the 'Mediterranean' Category
Lebanese officials and private stakeholders met with European Union representatives Monday to assess Beyrouth’s implementation of the Euro-Mediterranean Charter for Enterprise and discuss further steps to improve its enterprise environment. Lebanese officials reviewed recent key developments of enterprise policy and discussed further steps to be implemented.
The “EU welcomes the thrust that the ministerial declaration gives [...]
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Tags: Euro-Mediterranean Charter for Enterprise, Patrick Laurent, Union for the Mediterranean
On September 29, 1989, sixty-three of the seventy-six surviving members of Lebanon’s 1972 Parliament gathered in the city of Ta’ef in Saudi Arabia to reach a settlement to end the civil war at the request of Lakhdar Ibrahimi, envoy of the Arab Follow-Up Committee, set up by the Arab League. The meeting came against the [...]
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Tags: Arab, Lakhdar Ibrahimi, Lebanon, Taef Accord
Dom Joly for the Sunday Times explains - Beyrouth (Beirut) may be the number-one place to visit in the whole world, but the rest of the country is now our top tip for a cool holiday.
I can remember mist, spooky clouds of swirling mist, lapping around us. We were all perched up high on a huge [...]
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Tags: Baalbek, Beirut, Bekaa Valley, Beyrouth, cedars, Ehden, faqra, Faraya, hikers, Karam, number-one, Palmyra, place to visit, quad-bikers, Roman temple, ski resort, temple of Baal, Tripoli
The International Committee for the Safeguarding of Tyre announced on Wednesday the launching of the League of Phoenician, Canaanite and Punic Cities. The league will be part of the Tyre Foundation, a new international organization that is to include about 30 cities located on the Mediterranean coast. It will aim at reinforcing cooperation between the cities on [...]
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Tags: Canaanite, International Committee for the Safeguarding of Tyre, Maha al-Khalil Shalabi, Phoenician, Punic
The Italian Cultural Institute in Lebanon is launching its 9th week of “Italian Language in the World”. An event series taking place at the Italian Embassy in Baabda next Monday, focusing on the Italian language in the fields of Art, Science and Technology. Activities will start at 6 p.m. on Monday October 19 with the inauguration of [...]
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Tags: Baabda, Italian, Italian Cultural Institute, Italian Embassy, italiano, Learning, mosaics, Speaking
Beyrouth, number 1
Par Médéa Azouri HABIB
Cet été, on n’y a pas échappé. La presse mondiale a encensé le Liban.
Nous avons été classés première destination touristique de l’année par le New York Times.
Paris-Match a consacré cinq pages (au lieu des quatre usuelles).
CNN a fait un mini-reportage sur la night life libanaise et récemment le New York Times [...]
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Tags: Beyrouth, L'Orient-Le Jour, Médéa Azouri HABIB, première destination touristique
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
