These articles represent opinions of only the author by saudigazette.com.sa BEIRUT — Lebanon’s president stressed that stability is “a red line” after Prime Minister Saad Hariri’s shock resignation, Justice Minister Salim Jreissati said on Monday after meeting the president. In a televised speech, Saad Hariri had said he feared an assassination plot against him […]
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Lebanon’s president will not accept the resignation of prime minister Saad al-Hariri until he returns to Lebanon, palace sources said on Sunday, delaying for now politically difficult consultations on his successor. Lebanese Army Denies Uncovering Any Plot to Assassinate Hariri. BEIRUT (Daily Star.com.lb): Hezbollah Secretary-General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah has urged calm in […]
A Saudi government official with close ties to security says 11 princes and 38 former government ministers, deputies and businessmen are being held in five-star hotels across the capital, Riyadh, in an anti-corruption sweep. The official spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the press. […]
by Alexei Oreskovic – Business Insider – For 11 minutes on Thursday night, the world experienced a first: US President Donald Trump was not on Twitter. Trump’s account was temporarily kicked offline by a Twitter employee. At first, Twitter said it was an “inadvertent” human error. The company followed up a couple of hours later, […]
khazen.org greatly regret the resignation of Hariri government We hope strength peace and prosperity for Lebanon. Below article represents only the opinion of the author. (CNN) by By Chandrika Narayan, Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri unexpectedly resigned Saturday during a trip to Saudi Arabia, saying his life was in danger, and creating a leadership vacuum in […]
by – Al Monitor – BEIRUT — In Lebanon, women count for 3.1% of the deputies in parliament compared to 22% on average elsewhere in the world. Meanwhile, Lebanese parliamentarians refused to pass in June a quota guaranteeing that women must represent 30% of decision-making positions in politics. In this context, succeeding professionally as a Lebanese woman is challenging. But some incentives and business organizations are pushing potential candidates to try and launch their own businesses in this sexist climate. Aline Kamakian, the owner of Mayrig, an Armenian restaurant in Beirut, began selling life insurance policies at age 18, after her father died. “I faced a lot of sexual harassment, because at that time a woman selling stuff was considered selling herself,” Kamakian told Al-Monitor. “But I overcame my frustrations and succeeded. In 2003, I opened my father’s dream restaurant, Mayrig.” But without a father or husband, she couldn’t get a loan and had to ask her cousin to be her business partner. “It is not by law but common practice. It wasn’t until this year that I could buy my cousin’s shares,” she added.
Recognized as woman entrepreneur of 2014 by the Brilliant Lebanese Awards, Kamakian is also a board member of the Lebanese League for Women in Business (LLWB), an association launched in 2006 by 12 women to encourage their peers to strive in business. The LLWB is funded by various institutions like Mercy Corps, UK AID, the UN Development Program and Green Public Procurement. The LLWB’s projects mainly focus on developing businesses, such as the league’s “Join and Grow” networking sessions, where successful entrepreneurs come to talk and exchange ideas, as well as the monthly workshops on specific topics taught by experts. With connections to universities and financial institutions to implement business and governance programs, the LLWB is also involved in developing skills and community in rural areas and advocates actively for more rights and opportunities for women in Lebanon. “I think our activities are important because women are often reluctant to open their own company,” LLWB regional committee member Najah Jaroush told Al-Monitor. “Sometimes they are afraid or ashamed because of the way society might see them. As the market is overtaken by men, they could also be intimidated and wouldn’t dare to ask questions or ask for help. The LLWB intervenes here to create a role model and let women be encouraged by others, because if they see successful women they would think they can do it too. We then train them to develop a business language to propose their ideas and follow up on every step they take to help them grow. Not being alone gives recognition, motivation and power.”
The Daily Star BEIRUT: A shrine to Maronite Saint Charbel was inaugurated at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City on Saturday. Maronite Patriarch Beshara Rai attended the inauguration ceremony, giving his blessing and a dedication. “St. Charbel now watches over you from 5th Avenue at St. Patrick’s Cathedral,” said Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the Archbishop […]
by Rick Liaz, Contributor – huffingtonpost.com — Lifestyle blogging has been wide spread among many Instagram accounts. It has become a trend, a popular platform for people to share all sort of experiences. But what happens when an Instagram account becomes a community by itself? Well, this Lebanese account — MAGLebanon — will explain to […]
by www.ncronline.org Washington — U.S. Vice President Mike Pence criticized the United Nations’ efforts to help persecuted Christians in the Middle East in a speech Oct. 25. Since the organization “failed” to help Christians and other minority religious communities, he said, aid from the United States from now on would be routed through the U.S. Agency for International Development and “faith-based and private organizations” to help those who are persecuted in the region.The vice president, who was the keynote speaker at the Solidarity Dinner for the Washington-based group In Defense of Christians, did not identify any of the faith-based or private groups that will receive the money, nor did he say how much they will receive, but instead criticized the U.N. saying it had denied help to faith-based groups.
“Christians and those who are persecuted in the Middle East should not have to rely on multinational institutions when America can help them directly and tonight it is my privilege to announce that President [Donald] Trump has ordered the State Department to stop funding the ineffective relief efforts of the United Nations and from this day forward America will provide support directly to persecuted communities,” he said. The vice president also announced that he will be making a trip to the Middle East in December but did not release details.”I promise you one of the messages that I will bring on the president’s behalf to the leaders across the region is that now is the time to bring an end to the persecution of Christians and all religious minorities,” he said.
Pence was introduced at the dinner by Supreme Knight Carl Anderson, CEO of the Knights of Columbus. The dinner was part of three days of prayer, workshops, meetings and a lobbying effort by the nonprofit In Defense of Christians organization, which advocates mostly for Christians in the Middle East but also calls attention to the plight of other minority groups in the region.The organization primarily aims to call attention to disappearance of Christians from their ancestral home, prompting Christians in the U.S. to do something to help them. The organization claims “over 200,000 volunteer citizen activists” in its ranks.
Pence said Christianity is facing “heartbreaking” acts of violence as well as an “exodus” from its ancestral home, but said the Trump administration is focused on destroying “the embodiment of evil in our time: ISIS.” He largely focused on the group as the source of the evils perpetrated on Christians who “are today the targets of unspeakable acts of violence and atrocities.”The vice president is correct that Christians are under particularly brutal pressure in countries where local branches of IS are active, such as Iraq, Syria, and Egypt,” said Michele Dunne, a senior associate at the Middle East Program of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington.
Peter Rutzler 8 hours Read more at: https://inews.co.uk/essentials/sport/rugby-league-fever-gripping-lebanon-eve-world-cup/ Peter Rutzler 8 hours Read more at: https://inews.co.uk/essentials/sport/rugby-league-fever-gripping-lebanon-eve-world-cup/ By Peter Rutzler –– Lebanon is not the first place that comes to mind when you think rugby league. But, thanks to the country’s Australian diaspora, the sport has found a foothold in the Middle East. Their return to […]
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