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 ...
YaLibnan (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
Beirut - Lebanese Christian Maronite bishops warned Wednesday during their monthly meeting that the fighting in Gaza could spread to Lebanon, local LBC TV station reported. Heads of the churches of the majority Maronite Christians in Lebanon said in their statement following the meeting that the situation in Gaza could move to other neighboring countries, particularly Lebanon. "The division in Lebanon...
Ya Libnan | Lebanon News Live from (Free subscription) | 3 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.
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.
Hootsbuddy's Place (Free subscription) | 3 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...
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...
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.
YaLibnan (Free subscription) | 5 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...
snapped shot (Free subscription) | yesterday
Thanks for noticing the most obvious flag in this picture , Reuters... Caption reads: A Lebanese child shouts slogans near a Venezuela's flag during a protest organized by a leftist group in front of the Egyptian embassy in Beirut, against Israel's attacks on Gaza January 7, 2009. The Arabic writing on the Venezuelan flag reads, "Arab Republic of Venezuela".
Pan-African News Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday
Hezbollah rally in Beirut expresses solidarity with the Palestinian people under military siege in Gaza. Over 700 have been reported killed. Originally uploaded by Pan-African News Wire File Photos Wednesday, January 07, 2009 15:47 Mecca time, 12:47 GMT School hit piles pressure on Israel The UN says it regularly sends the Israeli army exact geographical coordinates of its facilities Israel is facing...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
Hassan Nasrallah speaks out against Israel to thousands of angry Shia in Beirut marking Ashura, the end of 10 days of grief over the death of Muhammed's grandson
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday
Beirut - The leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah Wednesday warned Israel from venturing into a new attack against Lebanon, saying it would be nothing compared to the July 2006 war. What they (Israelis) saw in the July War is nothi...
