by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Mar 23, 2011 | Lebanese Abroard
In an escalation of events between Bahrain and Lebanon following the Hezbollah leader’s speech, Bahrain has announced that all Gulf Air and Bahrain Air flights between Beirut and Manama have been suspended (Arabic). Transliteration: The Authority for Civil...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Mar 16, 2011 | Business
Now here’s something you don’t read everyday: The cost of insuring against a default by Bahrain surpassed Lebanon for the first time since July 2009 as officials declared a state of emergency and Fitch Ratings lowered the Persian Gulf nation’s credit...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Feb 23, 2011 | Media
The writers at New Kerala seem very occupied with events in Libya that they’ve got them mixed-up with us and got me really confused. Here’s a headline from their website: Libya: Prime Minister-designate brief UN on new government PM designate? When did...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Feb 8, 2011 | Politics
The National has an entertaining article on Lebanon’s prime minister-designate, Najib Miqati’s credentials, primarily his education: In a section of [Miqati’s official] website entitled “From ‘average student’ to Harvard”, Mr...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Jan 5, 2011 | Society
An interesting tidbit, Syria has inaugurated a new casino: A casino opened without fanfare near the Syrian capital on Christmas Eve, in a bending of the rules in a secular country seeking to lure tourists but where gambling is banned out of respect for Islam....