by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | May 2, 2013 | Government
The US State Department recently issued their 2011 list of “Gifts to Federal Employees From Foreign Government Sources Reported to Employing Agencies” as reported by the Office of the Chief of Protocol. Interestingly, it’s a list of gifts high-level...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Jul 14, 2011 | Government
In 2010, Michael Karam had written an article for Abu Dhabi’s The National about the Lebanese love affair with foreign passports. He goes to mention the “nationality hierarchy” in that, for Lebanese, certain passports are above others (in his...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Apr 20, 2011 | Government
Lebanon’s Ambassador to the US is facing a lawsuit from a former housekeeper for failing to pay minimum wage and verbally abusing and mistreating her. Lawyers for the ambassador argue that diplomatic immunity protects the ambassador and his family from...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Apr 20, 2011 | Government
According to the Iranian Students’ News Agency, PM Saad Hariri is now the proud owner of a Samand: Iran delivered a domestically-built car “Samand” to the office of Lebanese Caretaker premier Saad Hariri. An Iranian informed embassy official...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Apr 4, 2011 | Government
Lebanon will not be taking part in this year’s Venice Biennale, possibly due to the collapse of the government: …political instability has led [Lebanon] to withdraw from the event entirely. The curator was to have been Georges Rabbath, who had titled the...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Mar 9, 2011 | Government
…Europe needs to open its purse to set-up a helpdesk at the Beirut Court: The Help Desk will help citizens to find their way around in the Court of Beirut and provide them with administrative information on locations of courts, organigrammes and deadlines....