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Best Of 2007
December 31, 2007 · Mustapha Hamoui
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?