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Entries Tagged as 'Mediterranean'

Tabbouleh is Lebanese and so is the Hummus

November 2nd, 2009 · No Comments

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Tags: Arts & Culture · History · Humour · Lebanon · Mediterranean · Meditérranée · Society · Video

La condition des femmes en Orient, une conférence-débat au goût amer au 16e Salon du livre francophone de Beyrouth

October 29th, 2009 · 1 Comment

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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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Tags: Arts & Culture · Community Development · Gender · Human Rights · Lebanon · Mediterranean · Meditérranée · Society · women

Lebanese School Rips Pages From Textbook Critical of Hezbollah

October 21st, 2009 · No Comments

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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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Tags: Arts & Culture · Education · History · Lebanon · Mediterranean · Politics · War & Conflict

In Mideast, marriage too can be a battlefield

October 19th, 2009 · No Comments

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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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Tags: Gender · Human Rights · Lebanon · Mediterranean · Meditérranée · Politics · Religion · Society · War & Conflict · women

Elections indécises au Liban, quatre ans après la mort de Hariri

June 7th, 2009 · No Comments

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BEYROUTH, 7 juin (Reuters) – Un peu plus de quatre ans après l’assassinat de l’ancien Premier ministre Rafic Hariri, qui avait porté au pouvoir une majorité hostile à la tutelle syrienne, les Libanais retournent ce dimanche aux urnes pour un scrutin législatif qui pourrait rebattre [...]

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Tags: Lebanon · Mediterranean · Meditérranée · Politics

LIBAN Un système électoral confessionnel complexe

June 3rd, 2009 · No Comments

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BEYROUTH, 2 juin (Reuters) – Petit guide du système de représentation parlementaire complexe en vigueur au Liban, fondé notamment sur l’appartenance confessionnelle.
Les électeurs musulmans sont majoritaires, avec 60,4%, devant les chrétiens, avec 39% (dont 20,9% de maronites), mais ceux-ci séparément sont plus nombreux que les [...]

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Tags: Lebanon · Mediterranean · Meditérranée · Politics · War & Conflict

Quelques secondes de glamour

May 23rd, 2009 · No Comments

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Cannes, quelques secondes de glamour
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Meme les vitrines s’y mettent (ici celle de Valentino)
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Tags: Arts & Culture · Mediterranean · Meditérranée · Personal · Travel · Uncategorized · cinema

Cabaret night in Lebanon…

May 22nd, 2009 · 1 Comment

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Tags: Arts & Culture · Lebanon · Mediterranean · Meditérranée · Personal · Travel · Video · music · women

10 questions to Berlusconi

May 15th, 2009 · 1 Comment

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Tags: Mediterranean · Politics · Video

Israel has secret plan to thwart division of Jerusalem

May 11th, 2009 · No Comments

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By Akiva Eldar, Haaretz Correspondent
The government and settler organizations are working to surround the Old City of Jerusalem with nine national parks, pathways and sites, drastically altering the status quo in the city. The secret plan was assigned to the Jerusalem Development Authority (JDA).
In a [...]

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Tags: History · Human Rights · Mediterranean · Meditérranée · Politics · Religion · War & Conflict