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Lebanon and Syria Around the Web
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New English-Language Newspaper Opens in Syria
Posted 3 months, 1 week ago
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Super Minister: Interior Man Baroud Does Traffic Work Too!
Posted 3 months, 1 week ago
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UNRWA Facing “Dire” Budget Gap (Daily Star)
Posted 3 months, 1 week ago
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Alice Fordham: Palestinians View Lebanese as the Enemy
Posted 3 months, 1 week ago
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A Cause for Collaboration: Lebanese Ministers to Tackle Traffic
Posted 3 months, 1 week ago
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Hariri to Visit Syria
Posted 3 months, 1 week ago
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Mohamad Bazzi Looks Forward upon Hezbollah and Israel
Posted 3 months, 1 week ago
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Lebanon’s Palestinians: “Refugees for Life” (AFP)
Posted 3 months, 1 week ago
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Has Syria Won?
Posted 3 months, 1 week ago
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Hezbollah to Let Lebanese Security Forces Police its Neighborhoods
Posted 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Who Loves Hezbollah? (And: Does the U.S. Count?)
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago
Coinciding with my article in the National about Hezbollah’s changing relationship with Lebanon’s Shia comes two bits of news about the Party:
First, a new survey by the Pew Research Center’s Global Attitudes Project which finds that Hezbollah has the support of 35% of the Lebanese population,…
KEEP READING »What the Case of the “Lebanese Bernie Madoff” Reveals About Hezbollah
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago
I have the cover story in this week’s Review section of the Abu Dhabi National, on the saga of Salah Ezzedine, the “Lebanese Bernie Madoff,” and the implications of that scandal on Hezbollah’s relationship with its Shia base.
Here’s the start, but jump over to The National to read the whole…
KEEP READING »What’s Being Done for Ethiopian - and Other - Domestic Workers in Lebanon
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago
In my post the other day, about the Ethiopian funeral in Sebtiyeh on Sunday, I mentioned that some officials from the Ethiopian Consulate here in Beirut stopped by to pay their respects and distribute their personal mobile numbers. Yesterday, I called one of those numbers, and was pleasantly…
KEEP READING »An Ethiopian Funeral in Beirut
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Yesterday morning, I went with the photojournalist Matthew Cassel (Just Image) to the Ethiopian Full Gospel Church, in Sebtiyeh, just outside of Beirut, for Sunday services and the funeral of one of the congregants, Hany Gebre, who died in the crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409 last…
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