Nadine Daher in MTV speaking about etiquette of demonstrations Daily Star Lebanon: Lebanese Twitter users launched a mocking campaign against the local channel MTV Thursday for airing a program section that taught audiences how to act by the "etiquette of demonstrations". The sarcasm hype was sparked by the latest episode of MTV’s early morning show named "Etiquette," […]
United Nations (United States) (AFP) – The UN Security Council on Wednesday called on Lebanon’s parliament to elect a new president to help ease a political crisis that has fueled street protests. The appeal came after Lebanese lawmakers again failed in their 28th bid to elect a new president and fill the post left vacant since May 2014.
The deadlock in parliament took place against the backdrop of street protests first sparked by frustration over rubbish collection but that have since mushroomed into anger at Lebanon’s political class.
Lebanese anti-government protesters are seen behind metal barricades and other reinforcements that were installed as extra security measures around the Lebanese government building after anti-government protesters removed barbed wire barriers during recent demonstrations, in Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2015. Lebanon’s Interior Minister Nohad Machnouk warned protesters Wednesday against staging sit-ins or attacks targeting state institutions, saying such actions will no longer be tolerated. Machnouk spoke a day after a group of protesters marched into the Environment Ministry in Beirut, occupying a floor of the building in a drawn-out standoff with security forces that lasted nine hours. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
Jamie Dettmer, voice of America
As anti-government street protests continue to rock Lebanon’s capital, the country’s political elites are scrambling to find a way to quell rising public anger over alleged government incompetence and graft.
In a crisis that has grown out of lacking municipal services, analysts say there are now signs that a group of lawmakers may be backing the idea of appointing Lebanese army chief Jean Kahwaji as president, a post that has not been filled for more than a year.
Tensions came to a boil over two weeks ago when security forces opened fire on thousands of mainly youthful demonstrators who took to the streets to protest, initially against uncollected garbage piling up in Beirut. The protests quickly spawned a movement with expanded demands that now threatens the fragile sectarian power-sharing arrangements underpinning Lebanon since the end of its 15-year-long civil war in 1990.
The Guardian
The Jeita Grotto lies around 11 miles north of Beirut, in the Nahr al-Kalb valley. It is an extraordinary site which could be one of the wonders of the world but remains an intimate experience. It comprises two interconnecting karstic limestone caves, spanning 5½ miles.
There is a huge concentration of crystallised formations and extraordinary stone shapes, such as stalactites, stalagmites, columns, ponds and draperies.
Euronews, Police in Lebanon moved in to clear protesters who had staged a sit-in at the environment ministry. Their action highlighting an ongoing rubbish disposal crisis was the latest in a series of protests at the country’s political paralysis.
The demonstrators called for the resignation of Environment Minister Mohamad Al Machnouk.
Police moved in after protesters ignored an ultimatum from the authorities to leave.
The head of Green Party, who witnessed what happened, sympathises with their cause but not their methods.“We deplore state institutions being taken hostage. We can’t accept people entering state buildings like this. Our cause is purely environmental,” Nada Zaarour said angrily.
Outside the building hundreds more demonstrated.
Al Bawaba
Lebanon was the seventh largest source of greenfield FDI projects among 19 Arab countries, behind the UAE. (File photo)
The cumulative value of outward greenfield foreign direct investment (FDI) from Lebanon totaled $7.2 billion between January 2003 and May 2015, according to figures released by fDi Markets.Lebanon was the seventh largest source of greenfield FDI in nominal terms among 19 Arab countries during the covered period, behind the UAE ($297.4 billion), Bahrain ($68.4 billion), Kuwait ($66.5 billion), Qatar ($47.5 billion), Saudi Arabia ($41.4 billion) and Egypt ($19.8 billion).
"Google has changed a lot over the past 17 years — from the range of our products to the evolution of their look and feel," the company writes in the intro of a YouTube video announcing the news. "And today we’re changing things up once again…" The company writes that its new "simple, uncluttered, colorful, friendly" logo better reflects the different ways people interact with Google on their smartphones, watches, TVs, cars, or desktop computers.
The news comes not long after the big cooperate restructuring that turned Google into a subsidiary of a new parent company called Alphabet, run by Larry Page. This logo swap is the first dramatic change we’ve seen so far under new Google CEO Sundar Pichai.
Lebanese anti-government protesters chant slogans as they hold their national flag outside the Environment Ministry, in support of activists staging a sit-in inside, in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2015. Lebanese security forces dragged a number of activists out of the Environment Ministry in downtown Beirut, where they were staging an hours-long sit-in on Tuesday demanding the minister’s resignation over a trash crisis that has ignited mass protests. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
Lebanese red cross volunteers treat an injured woman during clashes between protesters and Lebanese riot policemen outside the Environment Ministry, in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2015. Lebanese security forces dragged a number of activists out of the Environment Ministry in downtown Beirut, where they were staging an hours-long sit-in on Tuesday demanding the minister’s resignation over a trash crisis that has ignited mass protests. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
Lebanese anti-government protesters clash with riot policemen outside the Environment Ministry in support of activists staging a sit-in inside, in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2015. Lebanese security forces dragged a number of activists out of the Environment Ministry in downtown Beirut, where they were staging an hours-long sit-in on Tuesday demanding the minister’s resignation over a trash crisis that has ignited mass protests. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
A Lebanese policeman, center, walks between anti-government activists sitting cross-legged on the floor, during a protest against the minister Mohammed Machnouk inside the Environment Ministry, in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2015. Lebanese protesters broke into the Environment Ministry in downtown Beirut Tuesday, demanding the resignation of the minister over the country’s snowballing trash crisis. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
REUTERS/Aziz Taher
المتظاهرون داخل وزارة البيئة مشنوق طلاع برا #طلعت_ريحتـكم #فيديو pic.twitter.com/LKpN9yb0Pg
— Yumna Fawaz (@yumnafawaz) September 1, 2015
A Lebanese policeman, right, tries to drags away an anti-government activist during a sit-in protest against Environment Minister Mohammed Machnouk, inside the Environment Ministry, in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Sept.1, 2015. Lebanese protesters broke into the Environment Ministry in downtown Beirut Tuesday, demanding the resignation of the minister over the country’s snowballing trash crisis. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
A Lebanese policeman, right, tries to drags away an anti-government activist during a sit-in protest against Environment Minister Mohammed Machnouk, inside the Environment Ministry, in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Sept.1, 2015. Lebanese protesters broke into the Environment Ministry in downtown Beirut Tuesday, demanding the resignation of the minister over the country’s snowballing trash crisis. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
Lebanese anti-government activists hang on to each other during a sit-in protest against Environment Minister Mohammed Machnouk, inside the Environment Ministry, in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Sept.1, 2015. Lebanese protesters broke into the Environment Ministry in downtown Beirut Tuesday, demanding the resignation of the minister over the country’s snowballing trash crisis. Angry protests over the government’s failure to deal with the garbage crisis have evolved into the most serious anti-government demonstrations in Lebanon in years with the protesters seeing to challenge an entire political class that has dominated Lebanon since its civil war ended in 1990. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir
A Lebanese worker sets up a tall metal fence as an extra security measure around the Lebanese government building after the anti-government protesters remove the barbered wire barriers during the last demonstration, in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2015. Angry protests over the government’s failure to deal with the garbage crisis have evolved into the most serious anti-government protests in Lebanon in years. The protesters seek to challenge an entire political class that has dominated Lebanon since its civil war ended in 1990. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla
Lebanese workers set up tall metal barricades as an extra security measure around the Lebanese government building after anti-government protesters removed the barbered wires barriers during the last demonstration, in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2015. Angry protests over the government’s failure to deal with the garbage crisis have evolved into the most serious anti-government protests in Lebanon in years. The protesters seek to challenge an entire political class that has dominated Lebanon since its civil war ended in 1990. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
#khazen – What is Next we should focus on electing a Lebanese President? Keep lebanon safe & we need to vote for a #LebanesePresident first – Pray for Lebanon!! #Lebanon
Daily Star:Riot police cleared You Stink campaign protesters Tuesday from the Environment Ministry in Downtown Beirut, hours after activists began a sit-in calling for the minister’s resignation over the protracted trash crisis. Gen. Mohammad Ayyoubi asked all media to leave the building as riot police prepared to clear the floor where protesters continued their sit-in.
One hour later, police were seen carrying protesters out of the building, some of them with bruise marks and others handcuffed, witnesses said. LBC TV host Joe Maalouf, who was present when riot police began clearing the floor, said that protesters and media members were beaten and dragged from the building. An activist, who preferred to remain anonymous, said 14 protesters were still inside the Environment Ministry. All protesters were removed from the building by 9:30 p.m. Activist Mohammad Najem, who was among the last group of protesters to leave the building, underlined that they were not forced to remain inside by security forces. At least one thousand protesters, flanked by riot police, remain camped out at various entrances to the complex, chanting for the resignation of the environment minister. Two hours into the sit-in, the protesters inside the Environment Ministry appeared to be suffering from the heat after employees turned off the air conditioning and electricity, one of the activists announced on Facebook.
BBC news, Activists in Lebanon have occupied the environment ministry, in the latest "You Stink" protest over rotting rubbish in the capital, Beirut.
A video posted on social media showed rows of people sitting on the floor and demanding the resignation of Environment Minister Mohammed Machnouk.
It follows weeks of protests over the government’s failure to remove growing piles of waste on the streets.
Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s parliament speaker on Sunday promised high-level talks to try to find a way out of long-running political gridlock that sparked large anti-government protests, including this weekend.
Speaker Nabih Berri told supporters that change should come from within the system, rebuffing calls by protesters for the resignation of the Cabinet or individual ministers.
Population Movements to Keserwan - The Khazens and The Maans
ما جاء عن الثورة في المقاطعة الكسروانية
ثورة أهالي كسروان على المشايخ الخوازنة وأسبابها
Origins of the "Prince of Maronite" Title
Growing diversity: the Khazin sheiks and the clergy in the first decades of the 18th century
Historical Members:
Barbar Beik El Khazen [English]
Patriach Toubia Kaiss El Khazen(Biography & Life Part1 Part2) (Arabic)
Patriach Youssef Dargham El Khazen (Cont'd)
Cheikh Bishara Jafal El Khazen
Patriarch Youssef Raji El Khazen
The Martyrs Cheikh Philippe & Cheikh Farid El Khazen
Cheikh Nawfal El Khazen (Consul De France)
Cheikh Hossun El Khazen (Consul De France)
Cheikh Abou-Nawfal El Khazen (Consul De France)
Cheikh Francis Abee Nader & his son Yousef
Cheikh Abou-Kanso El Khazen (Consul De France)
Cheikh Abou Nader El Khazen
Cheikh Chafic El Khazen
Cheikh Keserwan El Khazen
Cheikh Serhal El Khazen [English]
Cheikh Rafiq El Khazen [English]
Cheikh Hanna El Khazen
Cheikha Arzi El Khazen
Marie El Khazen