Archive for the 'World Affairs' Category
Documentary: Fake Trade
I would consider this circle’s usual reader as the sort of intellectual.
For a Sunday afternoon leisure, I seldom present lectures and documentaries being filtered to provide the finest of world ideas, critical thinking and latest craftsmanship in rascality. I encourage you to watch this 45 minute documentary on fake goods.
I leave you to your own [...]
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World renowned surgeon Michael Dabaghi, or Michael Ellis DeBakey, died of “natural causes” at the Methodist Hospital in Houston, Texas on Friday night at the age of 99.
Brief History
In 1959, Dabaghi performed the first successful carotid endarterectomy, a surgical procedure to correct the carotid artery, which is located in the neck. Two decades earlier, he [...]
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Lebanon.com is a disgrace!
Guest writer - The website Lebanon.com is a jungle of cluttered mess and the design is dispicable. The yellow sickly stained background is so repulsive, I can’t last there for more than five minutes. Which I’ve calculated would take me tripple the time to get the information I’m looking for.
To any foreigner wanting to have a [...]
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We, Lebanese Expatriates
No other topic touches this blog more than the subject of Lebanese Expatriates, for one, a great majority of our readers are expats; All inner circle writers are expatriates themselves, and this blog and its’ members have tried to shed light on almost every major Lebanese expatriate movement, from France, the Gulf, Australia, Canada, USA, Africa and [...]
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Tags: abroad, expats
Christianity in the Middle East
No where in the Middle East is Christianity so openly celebrated. Yesterday, Lebanese President Michel Sleiman, Premier Fouad Seniora and Speaker of Parliament Nabih Berri attended the beatification ceremony of Father James (Jacques) Ghazir Haddad (1875-1954) in central Beyrouth.
The Vatican beatified today the Lebanese Capuchin priest in a ceremony attended by tens of thousands in the [...]
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It has been reported that the Jewish Lobby (AIPAC) in the US has been trying to stop a $400 million arms deal with Lebanon in order to strengthen Lebanons’ National Army. This was initially how the news got leaked of the arms deal.
The reason the Jewish Lobby is not too fond of the arms deal, is [...]
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Tags: arms deal, Israel, Lebanon, US
France24/AFP - Selon le Jordan Times, des archéologues ont découvert en Jordanie l’église la plus ancienne du monde. Elle aurait près de 2000 ans.
“Nous avons mis à jour ce que nous croyons être la première église du monde. Elle daterait de 33 à 70 après la mort de Jésus-Christ”, a déclaré Abd el Kader Al [...]
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Tags: Christians, Jordanian







