The Future of February 14’s Celebrations

Mr. Hariri’s Legacy is secure. Now is the time to rethink how February 14 is celebrated every year.

Obama One Year On. A Lebanese Perspective

La Stampa, one of Italy’s most influential newspapers decided to run a feature called “Obama, One Year On”. Both in print and online, It published opinions from bloggers and commentators from around the world relating to the first anniversary of that historic election. I was one of those fortunate enough to be asked for a [...]

Global Warming And The Lebanese

With such a small industrial production, does it matter if the Lebanese care about global warming?

So today is blog action day, and the topic is climate change. I really don’t know what “action” the people behind this day are talking about. What I really care about is our role as a tiny nation, whose minuscule [...]

The Battle For Tabbouleh

Making the world’s largest Hummus plate is a delicious, exciting, fun and pointless exercise

Gaddafi, You’re Under Arrest

The last thing Lebanon needs right now is angering yet another oil-rich Arab dictator.
Even the French are giving him a red-carpet treatment..(Photo: NY times)
As if we haven’t had enough foreign meddlers in our country, our judicial system took it upon itself to add another one. Just like that, we decided that our life is so [...]

All Of Lebanon Is Not Hezbollah, By Firas Maksad

The Director of the Lebanon Renaissance Foundation responds to recent threats by Israel to punish all of Lebanon if Hezbollah attacks it.
The Israelis practice their response to chemical attacks that they think Hezbollah might undertake
All of Lebanon Is Not HezbollahFiras Maksad
In a very significant and potentially dangerous move, Israel’s security Cabinet recently decided to reverse [...]

Nassrallah Taunts Israel On Georgia

The leader of Hezbollah is learning the wrong lesson from the conflict in the Caucuses.
Yesterday, in a televised speech, the leader of Hezbollah put the blame for Georgia’s “defeat” on Gal Hirsch, an Israeli military man “who was defeated in Lebanon [then] went to Georgia [as a military consultant]“.
Perhaps Mr. Nasrallah is right and the [...]

Even Islamists Deserve The Rule Of Law

They may not look like us. They may not believe in man-made law. But they still deserve due process.
(Photo by AP. Mahmood Tawil)
Yesterday, in a sight that brought cold chills down many Lebanese spines, men and women clad in black overalls holding black flags with Islamic scriptures staged a sit-in in front of the military [...]