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Please welcome the two new sister blogs of the Beirut Spring: Beirut Spring Business and Beirut Spring Tabloid.

While my wife still has five more months to add a member to my own family, my blog -after a few weeks of fussy tinkering- has now added two.

The reason is simple. Not everyone here likes to hear about Mika or see pictures of the Lebanese President’s daughter’s wedding. Yet at the same time, not everyone likes it when I write about the government’s economic policy or the Lebanese banking sector. In other words, this is when the invisible mouth of Adam smith told me to specialize.

The Beirut Spring Tabloid is just that: A look into the stuff you usually see in the back of a newspaper. Trivial, outrageous, scandalous and sometimes raunchy material that many of us secretly love. The Beirut Spring Business on the other hand takes the other end of the seriousness spectrum; in it we get a chance to discuss important matters without being distracted by politics. The original blog will keep doing what it does best: Politics.

The new blogs are young, and God knows I could use a lot of help with new material. So should any of you channel his or her inner economist or sleazeball, please don’t hesitate to send your contributions or ideas for posts to mustapha [at} beirutspring {dot] com.

Meanwhile, I’d love to hear your feedback. Is there anything you don’t like? Is there anything I can do better? Any ideas for even more sections (like for example: the environment)? Also please email me for more suggestions…

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Great! But Abou Stef, whould you have time to maintain three blogs?

Posted by Kheireddine | August 7, 2008, 9:50 pm
Congrads man! It is such a great work, the 2 websites are damn good.

Posted by sam | August 8, 2008, 12:49 am
i second kheireddine, aren’t you spreading yourself too thin?

Posted by Rollen | August 8, 2008, 8:42 am
Hey guys, thanks for the good wishes..

Kheireddine, Rollen:
Think of the new blogs as simply a new filing system. I post the same amount of posts per week (perhaps a tad more), only I’ll ‘file’ them in the most appropriate blog. This way I’ll spare serious readers the gossip and casual readers the complexity..

But still, it would be awesome if people send contributions my way :)

Posted by Mustapha | August 8, 2008, 11:45 am
Wow Abou-Steif, you’ve become a veritable publishing empire!
Congrats on the new blogs.

Posted by Lalebanessa | August 9, 2008, 6:34 am
Empire!? :) Easy on me LL, let’s hope the blogs take off first :)

Posted by Mustapha | August 9, 2008, 9:28 am
Solid move, all the best..

Posted by Lira | August 9, 2008, 11:06 am
Congratulations, my man! Beautiful stuff… and oh, can you introduce me to some of the babes on the tabloid site :)

Posted by RebLeb | August 11, 2008, 10:32 am

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.