Is Lahoud Abdicating?

The President packs up, takes his family and goes to Qatar. Is it just a trip? I’m usually suspicious when I read stuff in a Kuwaiti tabloid about Lebanon. So when Al–Syassa wrote a few weeks ago that Lebanese President Emile Lahoud might seek asylum in Qatar for himself and for his family, I naturally laughed [...]

Depressed? How About A Brand New Bosom?

A Lebanese bank thinks it knows exactly what Lebanese women need
  You got a country with two large political group clamping at each other’s throat, both furiously accusing each other of causing economic mayhem and financial collapse. Meanwhile, a bank comes out of the blues thinking it can make money out of helping women (and men) [...]

Stars

 
My new star-rating system is now functional!  Find it after each post. It’s your chance to tell me how much you hate (or even love) some of my posts without revealing yourself :) Check it out and test it right below this post, it’s pretty cool.. If you find bugs, please report them to me in [...]

Bullying The UN

 
Saying that a chapter 7 resolution will cause a Lebanese civil war is clueless and wrong. 
 
Even so-called professors have now joined the litany of doomsayers with sound-bites as colorful as “Lebanon is Jacques Chirac’s Iraq”. People who are protecting mass killers have taken to argue that a forceful intervention from the UN will mean another [...]

The Beirut Spring Has Moved

The Beirut Spring now has a new infrastructure.
 
The new design is similar to the old as I tried to make the transition as smooth as possible, but in many ways, it’s much better: It’s now wider, cleaner and has three columns for even more links and goodies.
 
There are now new sections on the [...]

Free Alan

Why would anyone kidnap or kill Alan johnston?

Journalists protest in Beirut today (Photo New York Times)

Sign petition here.

Caught Wire-Handed

Cheating on your exams, Hezbollah style.

Who is the mastermind?

Notary Publics are important people. They are sworn in by the government to handle critical legal documents and are often sought by wrong-doers for bribery. This is why in Lebanon, prospects for this lucrative job have to pass a wrenching written exam (concours).
In one such exam a [...]

Playing By The Same Playbook

I saw this today:

Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr pulls his ministers out of Iraq’s cabinet to press for a timetable for US withdrawal.
Sounds familiar, I wonder where I’ve seen it before..