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 [...]

“A Politician in My Country Should Serve as a Pillar in Our Daily Lives“

   Extracts from an interview of May Menassa, journalist at An-Nahar, on OTV, on 2008, March, 5

“A Politician in My Country Should Serve as a Pillar in Our Daily Lives - Instead, the Politician Has Become a Fountain of Curses, Hatred, and Threats”May Menassa: “Let me start with Lebanon, because I am a Lebanese woman, and [...]

Boycott du salon du livre : le pour et le contre

Extrait d’un article de Maya Ghandour Hert paru dans L’Orient - Le Jour, le 5 mars 2008 :
“Le rendez-vous incontournable des amoureux du livre” serait-il devenu cette année le “rendez-vous proscrit par les haïsseurs d’Israël”? On est tentés de s’abstenir de tout commentaire. Tellement le terrain est miné… et minant. Car difficile désormais de l’ignorer, [...]