Mechanical Engineering Assistant Professor at the American University of Beirut (AUB) Daniel Asmar and the team of Elie Maalouf, Amin Kanafani, Ahmed Hammoud, and Rawad el-Jurdi, took almost nine months of dedicated work to build the “Apollo’s Chariot,” the first Solar powered vehicle in the Arab World (not the Middle East, Israel is leaps ahead).
The steel-and-fiberglass, one-seater [...]

… and a blessing from here.
The Lebanese community in Qatar saluted on Wednesday efforts exerted by Qatari Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifah al-Thani and Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem bin Jabr al-Thani to solve the 18-month-old deadlock in Lebanon.

Y e e h a a !!
Across the internet, Lebanon was propping up with excellent news today. My first rss feed came from an odd title @ Blogging Beirut in our day. You all know what I’m talking about, our elected leaders finally came to an agreement. (us, the general mass were always in agreement).
The Lebanese [...]

The sectarian violence in Iraq and the social anatomy of Lebanon forces people to talk in terms of sects. It is our long buried, new standard of labeling ourselves.
On March 8 and on March 14, 2005 we all proved openly to the world we can be highly democratic and resolve disagreements peacefully. Syria withdrew from [...]

Yesterday, Beyrouth fell to the Opposition, and then given back to the Army to restore the peace.
Today, several villages in the district of Aley, including Aaytat and Baysur, fell to the Druze opposition leader, Talal Arslan.
Walid Jumblatt, a member of the ruling coalition, and leader of the country’s Druze community, urged Talal Arslan, his political [...]

    Well, as predicted, the government backed down on its decision of ruling out the removal of head chief of security at the International Airport, and gave the decision up to the Lebanese National Army to decide on Hezbollahs’ underground communications network, if it benefits the Lebanese people, and whether it truly secures the Lebanese [...]

Today morning, the western hemisphere woke up to the news of West Beyrouth being taken over (we’re all Lebanese anyway), by the opposition.
Sayyed Nasrallah’s words still echo in my ear…
Our Weapons, are not for internal use… will not be used for internal use
… Though, I have to admit, he has been patient; till they finally [...]