من "نهار" ساحة الشهداء، الى الكاتدرائية التي غدت أيقونته الكبرى، الى جوار الشهيد جبران، حيث رقد بقربه في اللقاء الأبوي، ودّعت "النهار" عميدها غسان تويني وتحسس لبنان نفسه مستهيباً وحشة فراق من يرحل ولا يغيب. "المتمرد حتى على الموت" الذي "لم تجذبه تفاهة هذا العالم" على ما قال في وداعه متروبوليت جبل لبنان للروم […]

  The opposition Syrian National Council said on Sunday that it had elected Kurdish activist Abdel Basset Sayda as its new leader at a meeting in Istanbul. "Abdel Basset Sayda has been elected president of the Syrian National Council as successor to Dr. Burhan Ghalioun," a brief statement said. He takes over from Paris-based academic Ghalioun, the […]

    Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi hoped in his Sunday sermon for the national dialogue that President Michel Suleiman has called for to be “fruitful.” Suleiman has invited political leaders from across the political spectrum to attend the dialogue session at Baabda palace on Monday. While the Hizbullah-led March 8 majority welcomed the all-party talks from day […]

      German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle on Thursday held talks with top Lebanese leaders, stressing the need to “exert all efforts to prevent an importation of the Syrian conflict into Lebanon.” The German diplomat called on the Lebanese political forces to shoulder their responsibilities in this regard. In a statement in Istanbul ahead of traveling […]

Khazen.org prays for Ghassan Tueni and his family. One of the few unique symbols of Lebanon. May he rest in peace! He was one of the pillars of Lebanon    رحل… فجر النهار   Biographical note  Born in 1926, Ghassan TUENI is a public figure and a Lebanese journalist. He occupied several ministerial and diplomatic functions. Holder […]

    The sentencing of former warlord Charles Taylor last week reminded the world of the existence of – and the lasting damage caused by – that most shadowy of luxury goods: blood diamonds. Liberia’s former president was sentenced at an international court in The Hague to 50 years in prison after being found guilty last […]

  ساساً، ولا حتى قنّ دجاج. تغيّرت القرى. ليس في ألوان الخضر التي في الدكان، أو في رائحة المناقيش ما يفتح الشهية. الساحة خالية، حتى من نصب للشهداء. مجرد جدران تملؤها النعوات. هو التمدن يقتضي إحلال سيارة سوداء بشعة محل سواعد الشباب في نقل المسنّين من أسرّتهم إلى القبور. يتزوجون في بيروت ويُدفنون في عكار. […]

  The Shia taxi driver who brought me home from the airport a few nights ago answered my question about the fate of the 11 Lebanese Shia pilgrims kidnaped in Syria with a rather shocking statement: “We don’t care. We don’t want them back if this causes any humiliation to the Sayyed. He will not […]

    President Michel Suleiman stressed Tuesday the necessity of resorting to dialogue, as the only way “to agree on the integrity of national security, the thing that would remove the weapons of civil strife”. In a speech marking the World Environment Day, Suleiman said that “economic progress is a main condition to achieve development, modernization […]

  شدد رئيس الحكومة نجيب ميقاتي بعد لقائه البطريرك الماروني مار بشارة بطرس الراعي على أن "الحوار ضروري ويجب تمثيل الجميع فيه"، مؤكدا أن "هذه الحكومة أثبتت أنها تأخذ بكل الآراء ورأينا في كل المفاصل أنها تمثل كل اللبنانيين" ومشيرًا الى انه أكد للبطريرك على "الخطة لموضوعة لتفعيل العمل الحكومي بين مختلف الشرائح الممثلة فيها […]