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Blogging Lebanon
since 2005
Blogging Lebanon since 2005
How Do You Prepare the Grounds For a Massacre?
Here’s a tip from the Syrian regime: Kill the front line reporters who only a few days ago told the world that the city is expecting a massacre to take place. You get two benefits: The world won’t get to see your crimes and other journalists will think twice before deciding to cover your brutality.
Mustapha Hamoui · Feb 22, 2012
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How The Syrian Regime’s Lebanese Defenders Argue
Ziad Majed lists their boiler-plate deflective answers to embarrassing questions (Arabic) and concludes that the fall of the Syrian regime would end with it an entire tradition of empty rhetorical grandstanding.
Mustapha Hamoui · Feb 21, 2012
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Pockets of Brazil In Lebanon
A fascinating look at Lebanon’s “Brazilebanese”:
Mustapha Hamoui · Feb 21, 2012
❊ The National Dialogue. A Waste of Time or a Chance for Hezbollah to Bow Out?
— For a change, this could be useful —
Mustapha Hamoui · Feb 21, 2012
Press Pass
I want to sincerely thank the people at Press Pass for sponsoring and supporting Beirut Spring this month. I get especially excited when a sponsor is a service I actually find very useful.
Mustapha Hamoui · Feb 20, 2012
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Anthony Shadid’s Longing For His Lebanese Roots
This portrait (Arabic) by Hussain Abdul Hussain of Anthony Shadid paints him as a figure many of us are familiar with: The man with Lebanese roots who had a nostalgia for an ideal of Lebanon, an ideal that never really existed, who was willing to give up everything to return “home” and build a new life there.
Mustapha Hamoui · Feb 20, 2012
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A Guide To Writing Addresses in Beirut
Good find by the people at Brofessional Review..
Mustapha Hamoui · Feb 20, 2012
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How Foreign Journalists in Beirut Talk
More like “how Now Lebanon’s American staff talks”, but funny regardless..
Mustapha Hamoui · Feb 18, 2012
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