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Beirut, Lebanon - Beirut, Lebanon

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Jump to the full entry & travel map Beirut, Lebanon My first visit to Lebanon and Beirut. IMS Overview.

Israeli planes violate Lebanese airspace, Beirut says

The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago

Beirut - The Lebanese army said Thursday that Israel Air Force warplanes have violated Lebanon's airspace by flying over Beirut and elsewhere in the country. At least three enemy Israeli warplanes violated Lebanese airspace overnight and Thursday mo...

beirut to Syria Again - Ba'albeck, Lebanon

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Escaping The Sand Storms And Heat.

Prue retires to beirut

This is Bath (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago

Bath: A teacher from the city is swapping the classroom for a Lebanese refugee camp. Prue Deakin is retiring from Monkton Pre-Prep School after 24 years of teaching and has decided to move to the Shatila camp in Beirut. She ...

A Hawk and a Hacksaw: The Other Side of Beirut

Seattle Weekly (Free subscription) | yesterday

Y ou all might've heard of a little band called Beirut, the vision of New Mexico wunderkind Zach Condon, whose debut album, Gulag Orkestar , was extraordinarily well received by music critics. But the media was so busy showering plaudits on Condon's youthful be...

A Night in Beirut, Oregon

Women's Lens (Free subscription) | yesterday

Tonight in Music: A Hawk and a Hacksaw, Eartha Kitt, the Zombies, Shearwater

Line Out (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago

A Hawk and a Hacksaw featuring Beirut A Hawk and a Hacksaw are playing tonight at the Tractor. Kurt B. Reighley interviewed the duo for this week's paper. An excerpt: A Hawk and a Hacksaw perform on street corners, for fun and spare change, all around the globe. You'll find them plying this trade throughout Spain, Hungary, and Romania. Their vibrant music, heavy on strains of accordion and violin,...

A Pessimist’s View of an Art Appreciation Economy

Slow Painting (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago

I have an ongoing debate with my partner about whether the American future will be Beirut-style terrible or just sort of Detroit-style terrible. I’m the pessimist. I was reminded of this by Trisha Ready’s essay in the July 3 Stranger about how her identity started dissolving as her buying power dropped off, and how frightening [...]

GPO Sanctions Al-Jazeera, JPost Gets Details Wrong

Augean Stables (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago

Danny Seaman, Director of the Government Press Office, has decided to sanction Al-Jazeera after ther Beirut desk held a party in Samir Kuntar’s honor to celebrate his release. Seaman has ordered the GPO to withold all services, such as press credentials and help with visas, from Al-Jazeera until they provide an explanation about the affair. The Jerusalem Post covered the story, [...]

Obama's pro-Israel stance no surprise to Arabs

Reuters (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Barack Obama has convinced Arabs and Iranians he will put Israel's interests first if he becomes U.S. president, after a Middle East tour that ended on Thursday.

Summer Nights in a Hammock

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shou hal 2a3deh tags: summer nights, july 2008, mount lebanon, beirut, lebanese, hammock, photo, low light photography, 3200 iso, canon 30d -finkployd- Summer Nights on Blogging Beirut

US: Arctic may hold 90 billion barrels of oil

YaLibnan (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago

Beirut- The Arctic may hold 90 billion barrels of oil, more than all the known reserves of Nigeria, Kazakhstan and Mexico combined, and enough to supply U.S. demand for 12 years, the U.S. Geological Survey said. Beirut- The Arctic may hold 90 billion barrels of oil, more than all the known reserves of Nigeria, Kazakhstan and Mexico combined, and enough to supply U.S. demand for 12 years, the U.S. Geological...

Lebanon Awaits its Bayan Wizari (Ministerial Statement)

Counterterrorism Blog (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago

In recent weeks, the democratically-elected Government of Lebanon led by the ruling March 14th coalition has been haggling with the Iranian and Syrian-backed Hizballah-led opposition over the new Ministerial Statement, the policy document of Beirut’s new national unity government. The debate is focused on the bilateral relations between Beirut and Damascus, and the future disposition of Hizballah’s...

US abruptly cancels Syrian visitors' meeting

YaLibnan (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago

Beirut / Washington - In an abrupt about-face, the State Department on Wednesday scrubbed plans to meet with a visiting delegation from Syria, a meeting that could have signaled an easing of tense U.S. relations with Damascus. One day after he said the delegation, in Washington on what is described as a private visit, would be received by a top State Department official, spokesman Gonzalo Gallegos...

AUB adopts accommodating attitude toward students with disabilities

Daily Star (Free subscription) | 22 hours ago

For Fawzi Yassin, who graduated this year with a degree in computer science, academic standards were not his only motivation for choosing to study at the American University of Beirut (AUB) - an accommodating attitude was a high priority.

LEBANON: MANY BUSINESSES PLAN TO EXPAND, DESPITE UNREST

luca99 | 06/11/2008

LEBANON : MANY BUSINESSES PLAN TO EXPAND, DESPITE UNREST Copyright 2008 IPS - Inter Press Service/Global Information Network BEIRUT , Lebanon , Feb 6 2008 Mona Alami The year 2008 has already been grim for most Lebanese businesses: Struggles...

LEBANON: MANY BUSINESSES PLAN TO EXPAND, DESPITE UNREST

winenewsnet | 06/09/2008

BEIRUT, Lebanon, Feb 6 2008 Mona Alami The year 2008 has already been grim for most Lebanese businesses: Struggles with the nation's permanent protest movement, security problems, a brief war in a Palestinian refugee camp and sporadic bombings have brought the nation to its knees. Most recently a bomb tore through the bustling Chevrolet area on the outskirts of Beirut on Jan. 25, killing Captain Wissam...

MANY BUSINESSES PLAN TO EXPAND, DESPITE UNREST

gallopnews | 06/07/2008

Beirut - By Mona Alami The year 2008 has already been grim for most Lebanese businesses: Struggles with the nation's permanent protest movement, security problems, a brief war in a Palestinian refugee camp and sporadic bombings have brought the nation to its knees. Most recently a bomb tore through the bustling Chevrolet area on the outskirts of Beirut on Jan. 25, killing Captain Wissam Eid from the