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With this compliation of the best Beirut Spring posts of the year 2007, I hope you all have a good 2008. Most importantly though, don’t forget to forget Lebanese politics and enjoy the party tonight. Maybe even email me pictures of your celebrations?

(Note: This is the year I moved from blogspot and made a redesign, so excuse me if some of the archive articles have missing comments or photos, and sorry for some other little quirks.)

January:

• Mr. Michel Aoun’s photoshop skills exposed.

Februrary:

• The Black Panthers of Taree2 el Jdeede
• Hezbollah’s Jihad Al Bina’ targeted
• The Hariri-Geagea-Jumblat Alliance is here to stay

March:

• Terror at Lebanese campuses
• Endorsing Nicolas Sarkozy
• Beirut dies but the partying in Batroun lives on.
• Is the FPM declining?

April:

• Can the Lebanese reduce the mobile phone rates?
• The killing of Ziad & Ziad
• Loans for bosoms
• Hezbollah cheating on their exams?

May (The Nahrel Bared Month)

• Nassrallah warns the Army not to interfere in Nahr el Bared
• The Lebanese are turning Aljazeera off •Mr. Jumblat explains why.
• Opinion: The Army should be tough in Naher el baled.
• Early skepticism. Does the Army have a plan?
• Meanwhile, the bombs go on: Verdun , Aley

June

• An Intifada against the Lebanese Army
• Murr’s embarrassing “Mission accomplished” moment
• The Sawsan Darwish Affair
• “Lebanese September 11″ foiled.

July

• In Lebanon, sex and security sell. Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
• Global warming kills 15 Syrian soldiers, wounds 50
• Still fighting in Nahrel Bared
• An Israeli blogger in Beirut.
• Debate in Canada about Lebanese Canadians
• The July war, one year on.
• Politics and paranoia

August

• Insulting the Prophet
• Rabih Mroué’s play: Banned, protested, Unbanned
• Opinion: The Lebanese should have a strategic armistice
• Michel Suleiman: Inevitable candidate?
• Tsunami in Lebanon?

September

• Does the opposition still have traction?
• Saad Hariri, the shameless pro-American
• Who killed Antoine Ghanem?
• Hezbollah’s tent city, now on Google earth

October

• An American military base in Lebanon?
• My trip to Washington
• The Curious case of Hussein Zurkot
• Lebanese and politics. A game of soccer
• The incredible Google catch on Lebanon

November

• March 14 endorse Michel Suleiman
• Mr. Suleiman is popular

December

• The killing of François Hajj
• Who did it?

After I finished the compilation, I realized: Wow, this was one eventful year. Lebanon is quite the soap opera don’t you think?

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Happy New Year!!

May the Politicians stay in 2007.

Posted by theCourtFool | December 31, 2007, 3:13 pm
HAPPY NEW YEAR Mustapha!!
If there were any awards given, Lebanon would’ve held the undefeated undisputed record of wins for 30 years!

Posted by Dania | January 1, 2008, 8:12 am
Happy New Year all…….
the courtfool….the politicians already stayed before 2005,executing what they learned from their Syrian masters under the name of Cedar Revolution…

Posted by Ado | January 1, 2008, 10:25 am
Happy new Year Mustapha and all…..

Posted by LebanesePatriot | January 1, 2008, 4:52 pm
HAPPY NEW YEAR !!!!!!!!!heheheheh…Even you Losers (M14,Cedar Revolution)deserve one.Get ready for 2008,because we going to crunch you this year…hehehehehe…”Democracy,freedom of Speach”, my ass.The New Lebanon is coming.Long live General “AOUN”.God Bless him. Amen

Posted by FADI ( U.S.A. ) | January 1, 2008, 8:48 pm
Saudi authorities have detained a popular blogger for violating the kingdom’s laws, a senior Interior Ministry official said Tuesday. It was the first known arrest of a Saudi online critic. The blogger, Fouad al-Farhan is one of the few bloggers who uses his real name. His blog headline reads: “Searching for freedom, dignity, justice, equality, shoura and all the rest of lost Islamic values.In it, he said he believed Saudi authorities were after him because he “wrote about political prisoners in Saudi Arabia.”"An apology for what? Apologizing because I said the government is liar when it accused those people of supporting terrorism,” he said.
AND YOU M14 and Cedar Revolution LOSERS support the KINDOM that Mr. Fag Hariri in conspearcy with the Saudis wants to stablish in LEBANON???? hehehehehe..pathetic dreamers…Txs god the general allied himself with the Force.Long Live General “AOUN”.God bless him . Amen

Posted by FADI ( U.S.A. ) | January 2, 2008, 1:45 am
Fadi:

As if the arrest and imprisonment of a blogger or journalist is unusual in the Middle East…or what? Name the clean hands.

Posted by JAS | January 2, 2008, 6:47 am
hehehehehe.. I cant…Thats why we have to protect Lebanon from The M14 plan to make Lebanon one of the Golf State controled by the Saudis and their candidate for King of Lebanon Mr. Fag Hariri…Dreams, just dreams…Long live General “AOUN”.God Bless Him. Amen

Posted by FADI ( U.S.A. ) | January 2, 2008, 7:54 am
Thank you all for your wishes. I hope you have an excellent year..

Posted by Mustapha | January 2, 2008, 2:28 pm
Fadi:

Maybe you should do a little more research.

http://www.menassat.com/?q=en/news-articles/2283-something-rotten-syrias-ministry-communications

http://www.menassat.com/?q=en/news-articles/2196-who-will-save-lebanese-media-politicians-and-themselves

Posted by JAS | January 2, 2008, 7:04 pm

Hello, my name is Mustapha and I blog in The Beirut Spring about Lebanese society and politics. I started in February 2005 after the killing of P.M. Rafik Hariri.