See-Through-Lebanon

A new Lebanese blog focuses on transparency, good governance and takes aim at corruption.
According to an email I got from the seethrulebanon team:
Our team follows the major Lebanese newspapers on a daily basis extracting topics that are aligned with the objective of our website. We are in the process of developing a consolidated search-enabled database [...]

How A Syrian Radio Show Can Save The West

A new American-style radio show hits the airwaves in Damascus. Next thing you know, a Western newspaper rushes in to hail the “cultural bridge” and the “Shift towards the Western Orbit” in Syria
Photo credit: LA Times
Is it a mark of desperation, hope or naivety that the LA Times features the “Good Morning Syria” show and [...]

Battle Of The Websites

The Lebanese Forces and the FPM have both decided to overhaul their online news portals.

One party wants to unzip their new site open while the other prefers to tear off the cover. Isn’t competition a wonderful thing? Say what you want about the Lebanese Christians, but they seem to be the only ones engaged in [...]

Myth-Busting Lebanese Wealth ?

A widely circulated fact in Lebanon is that the Lebanese who live abroad make much more money than those who live in the mainland. A new study by the Center for Global Development exposes the real figures for the first time.
So far, all previous studies made on average incomes were country-centric. That means that [...]

Are March 14 Playing The Game Right? [Part 2]

Not everyone is gloomy about March 14’s political skills. The ever optimistic Now Lebanon weighs in today on their deftness.
Hanin Ghaddar — an eager obituary writer of the opposition — sees cracks and a “loss of momentum” in March 8 that March 14 are exploiting well:
With the glue holding these disparate groups together clearly weakening, [...]

Are March 14 Playing The Political Game Right?

Some pundits are starting to cast some doubt.
I don’t have a problem with blogs like the LA Times’s Babylon And Beyond saying that March 14 are making tactical errors. Heck March 14 can be so foolish sometimes you’d wonder how they’re still in power. But that’s no excuse to sneak stuff like this in:
Some are [...]

The Arab World’s Great Split-Up

According to this piece by Rami Khoury, oil wealth is creating an increasingly significant dichotomy in the Arab world.
Same language, different worlds…
In a nutshell, Mr. Khoury argues that one part (The oil-rich, sparsely populated part) is becoming more wealthy, dynamic, cohesive, pluralist, orderly, governed by the rule of law and secular, whereas the other (The [...]

The Daily Star: American Envoy “Hypocrite”

Is there a moral equivalence between US involvement in Lebanon and that of the Syrians and Iranians? Our English daily thinks so
Mr. Meddler ( Photo credit: Yahoo! )
The “pro Americans” regularly argue that while Syria and Iran send bombs and missiles to and launch wars from Lebanon, the US is simply propping up the legitimate [...]