Metn

Metn MP visits parents of Lebanese disappeared

Daily Star (Free subscription) | 12/29/2009

Work begins on $800 million BeitMisk housing project

Daily Star (Free subscription) | 07/28/2009

Renaissance Holdings owner Georges Zard Abou Jaoude announced on Tuesday his $800 million project in Lebanon, BeitMisk, a residential community spread over 655,000 square meters in the Northern Metn region. �Lebanon has the potential to emerge as one of the leading tourist and financial destinations in the Middle East region.

Blank, invalid ballots could have swung Metn race

Daily Star (Free subscription) | 06/10/2009

This year's parliamentary elections saw 1,349,325 Lebanese go to the polls, with about 1.5 percent of them leaving their ballot completely blank or casting an invalid ballot. But this was the first time that blank ballots were counted separately from invalid ballots after the polls. Voting blank or voting with a protest ballot that doesn't list legitimate candidates.

"This is our first election that is not just about a family or a name,"

Libertarian Democrat Point Of View (Free subscription) | 06/07/2009

TO BE NOTED: From the WaPo: "Voters Head to Polls in Lebanon By Howard Schneider Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, June 7, 2009 9:26 AM BIKFAYA, Lebanon, June 7 -- Lebanon's Metn district has formed the base for many a Christian political dynasty, a mountainous region north of Beirut where members of the Maronite, Greek Catholic, Greek Orthodox and Armenian sects compete for the spoils of office....

Voters Head to Polls in Lebanon

Washington Post (Free subscription) | 06/07/2009

BIKFAYA, Lebanon, June 7 -- Lebanon's Metn district has formed the base for many a Christian political dynasty, a mountainous region north of Beirut where members of the Maronite, Greek Catholic, Greek Orthodox and Armenian sects compete for the spoils of office.