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Pound for Pound (Free subscription) | yesterday
Beirut, "Nantes" ( YSI link ) I had a seriously shitty, emotional night last night and this was the only song I wanted to hear. I've listened to it close to 50 times on the L ride over and back and walking around and whatnot tonight and I needed to post this up late night to clear out of some of the bad vibes for sleep. It's Beirut's "Nantes" and I consider it to be the best song of the last 25 years,...
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The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | yesterday
New Delhi: Dempo coach Armando Colaco would like to take a cautious approach when his team take on Lebanese outfit Safa in the first leg of the AFC Cup semi-final at the Sports City Stadium in Beirut on Tuesday.
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Daily Star (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Stocks of the Beirut Stock Exchange (BSE) tumbled for a second week in a row amid a sharp global financial crisis that had an adverse effect on most bourses in the Middle East. The BLOM Stock Index fell by 3.41 percent on Tuesday with the value of traded shares reaching $11.296 million, an increase of 84.12 percent compared to Monday.
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday
Amman- The Jordanian Foreign Ministry said Tuesday that it was closely following up on the abduction of a Jordanian family in Beirut with the Lebanese authorities. A Jordanian mother and her three daughters, aged eight, five and three, were kidnapped...
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Ismailimail (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
AN ISLAMIC CONSCIENCE premiered in the Middle East October 5th in Lebanon at the Beirut International Film Festival! And in my opinion formed through the discussions and responses, the audience seemed to be very pleased often times raising “Why have we never heard of the story of the Aga Khan and the Ismailis before? This [...]
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Daily Star (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Congestion at the Port of Beirut has become a major concern among traders, shipping companies and the Port Authority, despite the large revenues that are being generated from the rapid growth in the number of containers coming through the facility.
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Times of the Internet (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
BEIRUT, Lebanon, Oct. 5 (UPI) -- A Jordanian woman and her three daughters have been kidnapped in Lebanon for non-political reasons, a Jordanian Foreign Ministry source told local media Sunday. KUNA, the Kuwaiti news agency, reported an unnamed source told the Jordanian Al-Ghad daily newspaper the abduction of the woman and her daughters, ages 3, 5 and 7, happened Thursday near a Beirut hotel as they...
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JoshSpear.com (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
A tale of intrepid risk-taking plays out in Hamsters Can Fly, a short film about a kid smuggling a hamster from Tokyo to Beirut as a gift for his grandmother via a slap-shod plan involving multiple containers and tighty whities. An amateur film by Japanese college student Naotomo Umewaka, the flick has simple charm [...]
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Daily News Analysis (Free subscription) | yesterday
When Armando Colaco's boys take the field at the National Stadium in Beirut on Tuesday, they will hope to better their own record
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Ya Libnan | Lebanon News Live from (Free subscription) | yesterday
Beirut - Syria on Tuesday has reportedly expanded its troop buildup near Lebanon's northern border, deploying tanks on its frontier with the northern Bekaa Valley.
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YaLibnan (Free subscription) | yesterday
Beirut - The U.S. Embassy issued a travel warning to American citizens living in Lebanon alerting them to possible violent actions around Mid October 2008 that will be targeting Americans Here is the text of the travel warning in the form of a warden Message The U.S. Embassy is concerned about the potential for groups or individuals to exploit the end of the holy month of Ramadan to undertake violent...
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StarTribune.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
A narrow escape from Beirut inspired a U freshman to offer tech support to raise money for refugees.
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Star Tribune (Free subscription) | yesterday
A narrow escape from Beirut inspired a U freshman to offer tech support to raise money for refugees.
