Blogging Lebanon
since 2005
Blogging Lebanon since 2005
It’s very difficult to listen to the plight of the family and friends of Myriam Achkar, as displayed in a TV report broadcast before Kalam El Nas. It’s difficult because their pain is heartbreaking and their loss is enormous. No one wants to go through what they endured and no one can truly understand the pain they’re feeling.
Mustapha Hamoui · Nov 24, 2011
In a fascinating post for The Guardian, Kaya Genç compares American-style coffee chains (Starbucks et all) with Turkish coffee houses:
Mustapha Hamoui · Nov 24, 2011
It happens every year on Lebanon’s Independence Day. Lebanese opinion writers get busy writing all sorts of snarky columns about why Lebanon is not really independent. They then start preaching about which foreign power we need to kick in the nuts to finally achieve real independence.
Mustapha Hamoui · Nov 22, 2011
From today’s Daily Star:
Mustapha Hamoui · Nov 22, 2011
I was initially a skeptic of Hezbollah’s boasts, but CIA sources have confirmed that they were dealt a real blow in Lebanon:
Mustapha Hamoui · Nov 21, 2011
Outlines of the proposed economic sanctions on Syria have begun showing up in the Saudi press:
Mustapha Hamoui · Nov 21, 2011
Yesterday, Aljoumhouria’s Asa’ad Bshara reported that ex-PM Saad Hariri is planning an all-out assault on the Mikati government that will start from Tripoli on November the 27th:
Mustapha Hamoui · Nov 20, 2011
Jay Solomon and Nour Mallas write for the Wall Street Journal on the latest effort by the treasury department to strangle Syria financially from Lebanon:
Mustapha Hamoui · Nov 19, 2011
I was thinking about why Now Lebanon would censor its unhate blog post, and I came up with not just one, but many possible (good?) reasons:
Mustapha Hamoui · Nov 18, 2011