Zawya.com - Top Regional News (Free subscription) | yesterday
The US Treasury department banned any Americans from taking part in a construction project in Beirut, accusing Hizbollah of using the project to raise funds for terrorism.
Memri Latest Blogs (Free subscription) | yesterday
During his Beirut visit yesterday, French President Nicolas Sarkozy told his Lebanese counterpart Michel Suleiman that Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad had stressed to him that the exchange of ambassadors between Syria and Lebanon would be carried ... January 7, 2009, 12:45 pm
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 06/01/2009
Beirut/Damascus - French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrived Tuesday in Beirut as part of his Middle East tour to discuss the situation in Gaza and meet with French forces in southern Lebanon. Sarkozy, arriving from Damascus, is scheduled to meet with ...
Power Line (Free subscription) | 06/01/2009
The Washington Post , in a story by Sudarsan Raghavan, reports as follows on international protests against Israel's military operation in Gaza: From Paris to Poland, tens of thousands of protesters called for an end to the Israeli offensive. In the Muslim world, thousands marched in Beirut and in Ankara, Turkey, and Amman, Jordan. This is good alliteration but poor writing. Raghavan leaves it unclear...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 06/01/2009
Protesters approached the U.S. embassy premises in Awkar East of Beirut for the second time Monday but riot police and security forces forced them away from it, local New TV reported. According to the report, around 500 university students held the demonstration in protest against Israeli's ground offensive on Gaza. They carried sticks and tried to break through the bared wire fences surrounding the...
newswire (Free subscription) | 06/01/2009
By Borzou DaragahiThrough their apartment windows or from just over the tops of their newspapers, the artists, writers, students, journalists and lawyers peered at the beefy armed men. They had come before, grimacing young toughs wielding Kalashnikovs, their legs dangling over the sides of pickup trucks, swaggering along the sidewalks, festooning streetlights with their flags.This time it was the Shiite...
BBC News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Hezbollah uses the Muslim festival of Ashura in Lebanon to rally its supporters against Israel, says the BBC's Natalia Antelava in Beirut.
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | yesterday
LONDON (Reuters) - Israeli war animation movie "Waltz With Bashir," about the 1982 massacre of Palestinians in Beirut, is one of five movies to be nominated for a foreign language BAFTA award, Britain's equivalent of the Oscars.
Ya Libnan | Lebanon News Live from (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Beirut - Tens of thousands of Shiite Muslim men, some beating their chests and others slashing their heads with blades, marched through the streets of Lebanon on Tuesday to mark the day of Ashura.
The Economist (Free subscription) | yesterday
An editor at the Daily Star in Beirut sees a 40-year cycle: the use of force elicits the will to resist
People Daily (Free subscription) | yesterday
Chief of the Lebanese Shiite armed group Hezbollah Hasan Nasrallah said Wednesday that the United States and Israel are the party's enemy and will stay their enemy, the party's al-Manar TV reported. Addressing tens of thousands of supporters who gathered in Beirut's southern suburbs at the occasion of Ashura, Nasrallah launched the strongest verbal threats since the Ashura, which began ten days ago...
STV News - Entertainment (Free subscription) | yesterday
LONDON (Reuters) - Israeli war animation movie "Waltz With Bashir," about the 1982 massacre of Palestinians in Beirut, is one of five movies to be nominated for a foreign language BAFTA award, Britain's equivalent of the Oscars. Director Ari Folman was a soldier in the Israeli army when it invaded Lebanon that year. The army allowed Lebanese Christian militiamen into Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon,...
People Daily (Free subscription) | yesterday
French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Tuesday in Beirut that France wants to be friends with all Lebanese and wants Lebanon to be free and independent, local Naharnet website reported. Following his meeting with Lebanese President Michel Suleiman upon his arrival in Lebanon, Sarkozy said that France wants the upcoming Lebanese elections in June to be transparent. After meeting with Suleiman, Sarkozy...
Hootsbuddy's Place (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Today's post is from Laila Halaby , author of the novel Once In a Promised Land , which was named one of the 100 best fiction books of 2007 by the Washington Post . Halaby was born in Beirut, Lebanon, to a Jordanian father and an American mother. Her first novel, West of the Jordan , won the prestigious PEN Beyond Margins Award. Visit www.lailahalaby.net for more information on Laila Halaby and her...
YaLibnan (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Beirut - A defeat for Hamas in its fight with Israel could increase the risk of another Middle East conflict between the Jewish state and the Palestinian group's Lebanese ally, Hezbollah, analysts say. Hezbollah, which like Hamas is backed by Iran, has expressed confidence that the Palestinian group will survive the Israeli onslaught that began on Dec. 27. It has drawn parallels with its 34-day war...
