Positive spirit in Beirut

Nick Warren, an international DJ came to Beirut last saturday for an outstanding night at Biel were thousands of people gathered for a great party. Roger Saad, MixFm’s director said at this occasion that “the party started at 10, till 7 am.. the place was full by 1 am , and the event was a [...]

Les autorités libanaises ont censuré la projection du film d’animation Persepolis

Nominé aux Oscars et primé à Cannes, aux Césars ainsi que lors de nombreux festivals internationaux, “Persepolis” n’est autre que l’adaptation de la bande-dessinée autobiographique de Marjane Satrapi dans laquelle celle-ci passe en revue l’histoire récente de son pays, l’Iran, de la chute du Shah à la guerre avec l’Iraq, en passant par la prise [...]

The Gaza Bombshell

By David Rose, April 2008  

“After failing to anticipate Hamas’ victory over Fatah in the 2006 Palestinian election, the White House cooked up yet another scandalously covert and self-defeating Middle East debacle: part Iran-contra, part Bay of Pigs. With confidential documents, corroborated by outraged former and current U.S. officials, David Rose reveals how President Bush, [...]

Is the Bush Administration Switching Horses in Lebanon?

 By Franklin Lamb, Beirut

Barack v. Hillary isn’t the only Presidential election game in Washington these days. There is also the Samir v. Walid v. Michel (as in Geagea, Jumblatt and Suleiman) campaign underway as each seek through direct contact and surrogates, the US imprimatur in their quests to lead Lebanon.
This week [...]

Lebanon finally got his booby trapped invitation to Damascus’ arab summit…

Minister of Foreign Affairs Fawzi Salloukh got Lebanon’s invitation to the arab summit held in Damascus on March 29th from a “syrian delegation” this morning, while Prime minister and effective minister of Foreign Affairs, Tarek Mitri are in Dakar attending the Islamic Organization summit… The government had made clear to Minister Salloukh not to accept [...]