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Plane crash near Beirut
by LeliaLeb

Till now there are no survivors. These images were filmed at the Hariri hospital where families are waiting for the ambulances to take the corpses to the hospital were DNA tests are being held in order to identifu the [...]

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Beirut and Lebanon are still stuck in an endless summer. Last monday, Beirutis were on the Corniche, walking, fishing, swimming and sun bathing. An incredible weather for January, while ski lovers are still impatiently waiting for the snow to fall on the mountain tops. Here [...]

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Une fanfare conjointe  de l’armee et de la police, puis un magnifique spectacle de cloture apres le defile des delegations

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Relativement epargnee par la guerre, la synagogue de Beyrouth est en train d’etre reconstruite par la multinationale Bloomberg, dans la plus grande discretion et alors que le pays est encore officiellement en guerre avec Israel. Une joie pour les juifs libanais du Liban et de [...]

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The U.S. military in Iraq has said that Iraqi forces arrested two people allegedly financing Lebanese Hizbullah operations.
The army said in a communiqué that the two men were seized on Monday during a combined search of a suspected militant safe house in a northern Baghdad [...]

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L’Orient des femmes n’est pas aussi reluisant que l’on pourrait le croire. La conférence-débat organisée dans le cadre du 16e Salon du livre francophone de Beyrouth a été l’occasion pour Nahida Nakad de dresser un constat effarant mais réalistes, des droits de la femme au [...]

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Tuesday, October 20, 2009
AP
BEIRUT —  A leading school in Lebanon was forced to remove pages from a history book said to describe Hezbollah as a terrorist organization after a Cabinet minister from the militant group complained, a state news agency reported Tuesday.
Hezbollah, which has fought Israel [...]

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By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS (AP) –
NICOSIA, Cyprus — The two couples had never met each other, and probably never would. They had come from opposite sides of a border between longtime enemies.
But Elie Wakim and Nada Ghamloush from Lebanon, and Dimitri Stafeev and Olga Zaytseva from [...]

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