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On this photo, taken on 10 February 2016, a young Syrian girl asks motorists for money in Beirut. Today, with the refugee crisis, like during the Lebanese civil war, the most vulnerable children in Lebanon are exposed to the risk of trafficking for adoption.
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" class="adapt-img size-full wp-image-16768 limited" width="273" height="182">by Emmanuel Haddad - published in equaltimes.org
A fundamental rupture was preventing Christiane from moving forward in life, even though she did not really know why. Until one day, during a somewhat drunken night out, her best friend told her she had been adopted: “Your whole life is demolished within seconds. All your foundations have been a lie. Your identity, everything,” stammers the thirty-something year old woman in a café in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, where she came back to live three years ago to find her biological family.
Christiane is one of the 10,000 children who were illegally adopted during the conflict that tore Lebanon apart between 1975 and 1990. During that period, everything could be bought and sold: weapons, drugs, toxic waste, prominent and less prominent hostages… and children. For Zeina Allouche, co-founder of the NGO Badael Alternatives, which supports adopted adults in their quest for their origins, one thing is certain: “They were not adoptions, it was trafficking, a business. The children were sold for prices as high as €10,000 (approximately US$10,700).”
Badael is fighting for a law to protect the right of these stolen children to know their origins.
By Libyan Express The Lebanese judiciary has found Hannibal Gaddafi, son of deceased dictator, Moamar Gaddafi, not guilty for the charges of …
by Makram Rabah - .middleeasteye.net
The usual vibrancy of Beirut’s night life was briefly shattered on Saturday, as news broke of the arrest of a suicide bomber in Hamra Street, one of the most cosmopolitan quarters of the Lebanese capital. Disturbing at it may seem, the Lebanese are no strangers to acts of violence such as the occasional explosions which, up until recently, were restricted to areas with a high Shia population.
The account of the operation that the security agencies provided to the media resembled a second-tier Hollywood production in many of its elements
Hezbollah’s full immersion in Syria, fighting on the side of the Assad regime, triggered a series of terrorist attacks from the Islamic State group, which has tried and succeeded several times at targeting Shia areas in the southern suburbs of Beirut. Yet the most interesting part of last Saturday night was not the dramatic thwarting of the terrorist attack, but the way in which the public reacted to this incident.
No sooner had the euphoria subsided over the capture of Omar al-Assi, the 25-year-old nurse turned suicide bomber, than many Lebanese, used social media to ridicule the theatrical fashion in which the security agencies (military intelligence and the police information branch) had seized the culprit.
By George Friedman and Jacob L. Shapiro, Mauldin Economics
In geopolitics, a deep understanding of geography and power allows you to do two things. First, it helps you comprehend the forces that will shape international politics and how they will do so. Second, it helps you distinguish what is important from what isn’t. This makes maps a vital part of our work, here at This Week in Geopolitics. So we have decided to showcase some of the best maps our graphics team (TJ Lensing and Jay Dowd) made in 2016. These four maps help explain the foundations of what will be the most important geopolitical developments of 2017.
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