Customers outside Riwaq, a music venue and bar (and library) in Beirut SOURCE: THE GUARDIAN BY: KIT MACDONALD ‘Life in Lebanon exists on a Samuel Beckett level of absurdity,” actor, writer and poet Dima Matta tells me. We are chatting on the terrace at Onomatopoeia on Jean Jalkh Street; it’s a music hub and NGO where Matta’s … Continued
President Michel Aoun, who was in Iraq on what marked the first visit by a Lebanese head of state, said there must be Arab unity in the fight against terrorists SOURCE: THE NATIONAL BY: MINA ALDROUBI Lebanese security forces arrested a man on Wednesday suspected of being a financial official for ISIL in Syria, as … Continued
SOURCE: CNBC BY: NATASHA TURAK The biggest threat to Lebanon’s stability is Israel, Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri told an audience at the World Economic Forum in Davos Wednesday. “The only threat I see is Israel taking some kind of action against Lebanon, out of a miscalculation,” Hariri said. “And this is the real threat, I believe. … Continued
SOURCE: NAHARNET BY: NAHARNET NEWSDESK Hizbullah’s Loyalty to Resistance parliamentary bloc on Thursday accused the U.S. administration of “continuing its incitement against Hizbullah through a symphony of questioning and fabricated accusations that lack any evidence.” “The bloc condemns the work of the U.S. panel of inquiry in Lebanon and its interference in the Lebanese banking … Continued
SOURCE: THE DAILY STAR BEIRUT: Speaker Nabih Berri Tuesday renewed his warning against Israel’s plan to build a wall along Lebanon’s southern border. Berri said that the United Nations peacekeeping mission in south Lebanon has been informed by Israel that construction work on a wall will begin at the end of the month, despite Lebanon’s … Continued
SOURCE: NPR BY: RUTH SHERLOCK On a bright, beautiful October day, Lebanese fisherman Emilio Eid is in his boat on the Mediterranean Sea. Lebanon’s scenic mountain ranges are clear in the distance. But the water around him is brown and littered with pieces of floating plastic. He spots bottles, a toothbrush, a used condom. An … Continued
SOURCE: IBT BY: VUSADEVAN SRIDHARAN A top Israeli minister has threatened to return Lebanon “to the Stone Age” as he warned that his country would not stay silent against the Shia militant group Hezbollah. Intelligence Affairs Minister Yisrael Katz also warned that his country would not hesitate to take action against Iran’s military presence in … Continued
SOURCE: REUTERS BEIRUT (Reuters) – Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri said on Saturday that he would not accept Iran-backed Hezbollah’s positions that “affect our Arab brothers or target the security and stability of their countries”, a statement from his press office said. Hariri announced his resignation from his post on Nov. 4 in a televised … Continued
SOURCE: LOS ANGELES TIMES BY: ALEXANDRA ZAVIS Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri said Wednesday he would wait before putting his resignation into effect, opening a path to solving a crisis that has thrown the tiny Mediterranean nation into turmoil. Hariri met Wednesday morning with President Michel Aoun to personally tender his resignation almost three weeks after he … Continued
SOURCE: TIME BY: PHILIP ISSA (BEIRUT) — Lebanon’s Future Movement party of Prime Minister Saad Hariri, who resigned from Saudi Arabia under mysterious circumstances five days ago, demanded on Thursday that he return from the kingdom immediately. Riyadh, meanwhile, ordered all Saudi citizens out of Lebanon — its first concrete action against the Mediterranean country … Continued
SOURCE: FORBES BY: LAUREN MOWERY As the plane lifted into the sky above Beirut, the last vestiges of the city’s inky hills, flickering with the headlights of crepuscular movement, disappeared. The Lufthansa Airbus banked west over the Mediterranean towards Frankfurt. For a few minutes, the pale pink of dawn veiled the landscape in the foamy … Continued
SOURCE: BLOOMBERG POLITICS BY: DANA KHRAICHE Saudi Arabia invited Lebanon’s Catholic patriarch to visit the country and meet King Salman, a rare gesture by the Muslim kingdom to one of the most prominent Christian figures in the Middle East. Waleed Al Bukhari, the Saudi charge d’affaire in Lebanon, handed Maronite Patriarch Beshara Al Rai the invite … Continued
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