Blogging Lebanon
since 2005
Blogging Lebanon since 2005
Relax. I’m talking about yesterday’s basketball game where the Syrian team withdrew because of the insults the Lebanese audience was hurling. Embarrassing.
Mustapha Hamoui · Aug 10, 2010
By choosing to stay silent on the matter of Sayyed Nasrallah’s presentation, Lebanon’s Future Movement risks coming across as weak and confused
Mustapha Hamoui · Aug 10, 2010
I’ve been watching the speech on Aljazeera and tweeting my (unvarnished) instant reactions. Here I’ll try to gather my thoughts and summarize my reactions to the speech.
Mustapha Hamoui · Aug 9, 2010
While we’re at the topic of languages, one must not ignore the amazing visual potential of the Arabic language.
Mustapha Hamoui · Aug 9, 2010
“Once upon a time in Beirut” is a poem that uses 3 languages and still rhymes. Fantastic stuff, you have to check it out..
Mustapha Hamoui · Aug 9, 2010
From Canada’s The Globe And Mail:
Mustapha Hamoui · Aug 9, 2010
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve probably heard of the kerfuffle surrounding the building of a Mosque in lower Manhattan near the site of the 9–11 attacks. Pretty much all angles of the story have been covered to death, but here’s an interesting one that uses Beirut as a higher standard to follow. It comes from a reader of the widely read Andrew Sullivan’s Daily Dish blog:
Mustapha Hamoui · Aug 9, 2010
This is more or less the message Lebanese politicians have been (publicly at least) relaying, in response to America’s purported intention of withdrawing aid money from the Lebanese Army because it shot at Israel.
Mustapha Hamoui · Aug 9, 2010
Today is the day we’ve been waiting for. The day where the Sayyed will “prove” to us in hours of live TV that it is in fact Israel, not Syria and not Hezbollah who killed Prime Minister Rafik Hariri 5 years ago.
Mustapha Hamoui · Aug 9, 2010
You have to check out the website of the Lebanese embassy in Washington DC. (Via Angry Arab). In a way, it’s honest. It shows what the Lebanese care most about.
Mustapha Hamoui · Aug 8, 2010