NewsLab

Bethléem ce matin, il fait beau et doux. Ici, il n’y a pas CNN ni Blomberg TV, qui diffusent en boucle la dégringolade de la bourse. On est à des années lumières de Wall Street et des Goldens boys déprimés pour cause de banqueroute.Ici, les gens font leur marché, citrons verts, bananes, quelques figues, […]

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I highly recommend you this news piece about the housing crisis called “Foreclosure Alley”. It’s really eye-opening. Click here.

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Pictures I took at the Sunflower theatre in Beirut. This exhbit is based on true stories that were told to the author of the exhibit, so each one represents a real person, a true story while they were running away from Palestine, or stories they heard…

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Sept. 18 (Bloomberg.com)
In 1983, Isaac Arazi and his wife were caught in sectarian fighting during Lebanon’s warA Shiite Muslim militiaman helped the couple escape. Arazi, a leader of Lebanon’s tiny Jewish community, sees the incident as a lesson in the Arab country’s tradition of tolerance. Now he is trying to make use of that […]

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I’m having trouble with the blog or the connexion. Anyway I’m rewriting this post for the second time I think this is NewsLab’s way of getting its revenge.
A couple of weeks ago, we covered an information in a way that did not please everyone here. The story was about a lebanese army helicopter that […]

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C’est la fin des vacances, les bourses des tunisiens sont presque vides et les pères de familles attrapent la fièvre d’inquiétude à la veille du mois de Ramadan (le mois de jeûne des Musulmans), un mois qui demande selon certaines familles des dépenses particulières suivie par la rentrée scolaire et universitaire et l’Aïd…. […]

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Le GSPC Qaïda Maghreb a perpétré un autre carnage. Ce groupe terroriste a, encore une fois, endeuillé le pays et déversé sa haine sur des jeunes venus de toutes les wilayas du pays pour l’examen d’entrée à l’Ecole supérieure de la Gendarmerie nationale des Issers, dans la wilaya de Boumerdès. Le bilan officiel, qui est […]

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Tuesday 19th August 2008, a date which will be carved in the memory of all Egyptians who are watching the Egyptian Parliment going on fire. El Shura Council, or Magless El Shoura as we call it,  an old and historical heritage located in Down Town, not very far from the American Embassy in Cairo, is […]

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Those who thought the singer who entertained thousands last week in Martyrs Square was Lebanese are mistaken.
Indeed, Mika was born in Beirut to an American father and a Lebanese mother: Lebanese law does not allow Lebanese women to pass down nationality to their children.
So the brilliant artist who should be (and would like to be) […]

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Turkey’s constitutional court ruled against closing the governing AK Party for Islamist activities but decided to impose partial financial penalties on the party. The decision triggered satisfaction to the political world and Brussels. After the rule, stocks in trade markets presented a rising tendency.

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