Blogging Lebanon
since 2005
Blogging Lebanon since 2005
Today, the charismatic leader of Hezbollah had a tough mission ahead of him. He had to explain to the Lebanese people why his party will ignore the STL’s indictment, and as a bonus, to portray this as the reasonable course of action to take.
Mustapha Hamoui · Jul 2, 2011
Bookmark this. It’s the entire text of the Lebanese ministerial statement in English. The amount of fluff and generalities in that document is just astounding..
Mustapha Hamoui · Jul 2, 2011
Mr. Walid Jumblat has just made a press conference on the Tribunal that sounded very much like PM Najib Mikati’s statement on the matter. From these speeches one can detect a pattern, a new sort of “Mikati centrism” emerging on how to deal with this important international matter.
Mustapha Hamoui · Jul 1, 2011
As was previously leaked, the indictment contains names belonging to Hezbollah like Mustapha Badreddine, an operative who is close to the late(?) Imad Mughnieh, in addition to previously unknown Hezbollah operatives like Salim Ayyash and Hassan Issa (details are being leaked on news channels as I’m writing this)
Mustapha Hamoui · Jun 30, 2011
Madeleine Albright and Marwan Muasher (both former foreign ministers of the US and Jordan respectively), argue in the Financial Times that the Syrian president could be scared by the initiation of a process of international justice against him:
Mustapha Hamoui · Jun 29, 2011
Transport Minister Ghazi Al Aridi defended yesterday the high prices of Middle East Airlines tickets:
Mustapha Hamoui · Jun 29, 2011
Oussama Hayek on Dar El Fatwa’s press release condemning the domestic violence law:
Mustapha Hamoui · Jun 28, 2011
A case in point: The internationally popular app Dermandar (iTunes)
Mustapha Hamoui · Jun 22, 2011
A ripoff of Sock and Awe , but still fun (until you get bored of it after 2 minutes)
Mustapha Hamoui · Jun 22, 2011