by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | May 31, 2009 | Politics
This is it; the final leg of the election campaign and the expats are flocking in: Lebanese expatriates have started arriving in Beirut to vote in crucial parliamentary elections that could decide the future of the country. According to the Qatari newspaper:...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | May 17, 2009 | Politics
…and he’ll run for MP: For fisherman Mahmood Khaled, nicknamed Abu Karam, it’s all about standing up for Lebanon’s poor and downtrodden. “I have no offices and no money,” the mustachioed 47-year-old father of 15 told AFP. Khaled...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Apr 13, 2009 | Politics
That seems to be the gist of it in South Africa: [African National Congress treasurer-general Mathews] Phosa was confident of a convincing ANC win in the election, as was Mashatile, who predicted a large majority. This was said during the ANC function in Johannesburg...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Apr 6, 2009 | Politics
Dubai’s first low-cost airline will hit the skies on June 1st with its maiden flight to Beirut: Flydubai will start with flights to the Lebanese capital of Beirut on June 1 and to Jordan’s capital Amman on June 2, chairman Shaikh Ahmad Bin Saeed Al Maktoum...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Feb 11, 2009 | Government, Politics
The Lebanese government seems to becoming more “e”. The interior ministry on Tuesday announced it has set up a website for the 2009 elections in Lebanon. Unfortunately, they used a web address which cant be easily remembered and I am unable to make out the...
