Blogging Lebanon
since 2005
Blogging Lebanon since 2005
What really annoys me about this New York Times story is that it’s assuming that since Aljazeera is refusing to broadcast footage of children being killed at close range, that somehow means that the station is changing its editorial policy:
Mustapha Hamoui · Mar 28, 2012
A few days after “paint-balling with Hezbollah”, we get yet another exposé in an english language publication in which the themes of Hezbollah, entertainment and western journalists getting privileged access and bragging about it, are mixed together.
Mustapha Hamoui · Mar 27, 2012
— Spoof ad campaign for Hazem Salah Abou Ismail, an Islamist candidate for the Egyptian presidency —
Mustapha Hamoui · Mar 27, 2012
I had to read it twice before sharing it, but Tariq al-Suwaidan, a prominent Kuwaiti Muslim Scholar did announce that freedom should come before Shariaa.
Mustapha Hamoui · Mar 26, 2012
If you’re locked in a Lebanese news bubble where, depending on your position, the Syrian opposition either doesn’t exist or is just short of storming Assad’s Bastille, you’ll be excused to have missed the parallel universe in which a realistic discussion is taking place on the balance of power, compromise and altogether unsavory diplomatic sausage-making that uses sentences like “the hard realities on the ground”.
Mustapha Hamoui · Mar 26, 2012
For those who are following the story of Minister Walid Daouk’s proposed Lebanese Internet Regulation Act (LIRA), there’s an update that will make things a bit clearer.
Mustapha Hamoui · Mar 25, 2012
(Gondol building. A remarkable landmark that Lebanon has lost forever. Photo credit: Beirut the Fantastic)
Mustapha Hamoui · Mar 25, 2012
Yes, Ali Mahfouz was the man who beat and humiliated Alem before she took her own life, and it is great news that he is now charged with contributing to her death because it will send the right message to other would-be abusers
Mustapha Hamoui · Mar 24, 2012
Think of this scenario: 4 American Journalists, one of whom was publicly accused of killing P.M Rafik Hariri in a Beirut press conference last year, and another had greatly angered Hezbollah by publishing a supposed interview with one of their operatives accused of killing Hariri, have managed somehow to arrange a game of paintball with 4 Hezbollah fighters.
Mustapha Hamoui · Mar 24, 2012