by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Mar 19, 2012 | Security
The article by Mitch Smith for the Inside Higher Ed covers the move by American students, interested in studying in the Middle East, to Beirut as regional favorites fall foul to the Arab Spring. However, what is interesting about the article is that Mitch never fails...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Sep 1, 2010 | Regional News
Israeli Minister of the Interior Eli Yishai believes that Israel lost the July 2006 war because Israelis have turned their back on God: “But here we come to the Second Lebanon War, without Syria, without Jordan, without Libya – just 2,000 Hezbollah men. 2,000!...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Feb 3, 2010 | Security
Where financial centers flash their Dow30, FTSE100 and CAC40, here in Lebanon we have our AK-47 index: Officially, the only legal weapons in Lebanon are shotguns meant for hunting birds. And although much of the population was heavily armed during the 1975 to 1990...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Oct 22, 2009 | Telecommunication
NGOs the world over are known for their immediate action whenever there is trouble brewing in any part of the world. They are there to provide people with the basic needs in order to survive traumatic times. However, one NGO has learned that sometimes people need to...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Sep 23, 2009 | Looks Like Beirut
So let me be the first to say those people are stupid: “People used to say that this place was like Beirut,” says Adrian Hall, as he arrives for work on the Barne Barton estate in Plymouth. But the rows of clean, pastel-coloured blocks of flats don’t...