by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Sep 3, 2009 | Society
The Lebanese Ministry of Health has decided to abandon its H1N1 tally: Keeping a count ‘is useless and it is very expensive to test 3 million people for A(H1N1), especially since the tests will not prevent the virus from spreading,’ Mohammad Jawad...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Aug 25, 2009 | Power & Water, Society
I came across a dispatch on the GlobalPost titled, Snoop Dog, Paris Hilton … Beirut’s Back. The jest of the article revolves around the idea that Lebanon is the place to be because people get wasted on rooftops. That’s all great and fair though the...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | May 27, 2009 | Construction
Beirut Media City has been making the rounds on the Internet and in the press but apparently, there are more plans out there that the central government hopes to initiate: The water sector is a priority, with plans to build 13 dams and the Awali-Beirut water...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Apr 20, 2009 | Politics
Time Magazine has given rave reviews to the current political play titled: The Suleiman Era. Expectations were low when the former head of the Lebanese Armed Forces, General Michel Suleiman, became president in May 2008 after a nearly two-year political crisis that...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Apr 8, 2009 | Society
That’s pretty much where Lebanese students get to in high school: Kristina and Ali sit side by side in their history class and together they learn about the Phoenicians and the Romans, the Greeks and the Ottomans. But when it comes to Lebanon’s more...
