by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Mar 4, 2013 | Transportation
Royal Jordanian has decided to avoid Syrian airspace altogether due to security concerns: Jordan’s national carrier Royal Jordanian has stopped flying over Syrian airspace for security reasons, the airline’s head said on Sunday. […] The airline, a...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Mar 19, 2012 | Sports
It is unclear why Bob Bradley, head coach of the Egyptian national football team (aka The Pharaohs), decided to camp his team in Khartoum rather than Beirut: Egypt boss Bob Bradley has decided to change the location of this month’s camp from Lebanon to Sudan, where...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Feb 12, 2011 | Looks Like Beirut
Those are the words of now de-throned, ex-Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak in a conversation with an Israeli Knesset member on January 29: Benjamin Ben Eliezer, a Knesset member, told Israel’s Channel 10 that he recently spoke with Mubarak, who told him that...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Aug 24, 2010 | Power & Water
In the face of massive power cuts in Egypt, the government in Cairo has decided to end electricity exports to Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Libya: The contracts signed with these countries stipulate that the power supply will be from surpluses during off-peak periods,...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Jun 29, 2010 | Business, Transportation
Let’s start with a quick flashback to 2009: In August, a consultancy firm spilled the beans to the press stating that the UAE-based low-cost airliner, Air Arabia, had narrowed down its search for a third hub to two choices: Lebanon or Egypt. One month later, Air...
