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I spent nine years working as a flight attendant. I found the airline subculture to be very fascinating and unique. I knew I would eventually write about it. Flying all over the world, staying in a new hotel every night, meeting hundreds of new people every day…it was difficult, intimate and lonely all at the same time.

Flying isn't what you think. There isn’t any typical path for flying as an attendant. We had attendants from other airlines, other countries. What you’ll find is that some flight attendants haven’t taken a single college class, others have associates or bachelors and masters degrees, it was such a great experience.

Gulfnews , Joseph A. Kechichian, Senior Writer

Beirut: Lebanon, where one out of every four residents is a refugee, rejected a proposal to naturalise the estimated 2 million Syrians if they chose to stay. On Wednesday, senior officials responded to a pitch made by United Nations (UN) Secretary General Ban Ki-moon who argued that refugees should be given the right to apply for citizenship in host states.

The objective, while doable in most countries, confronted immense hurdles in Lebanon where a fragile and increasingly threatened confessional balance holds the country together and prevents a permanent fissure. Rashid Derbas, the Minister of Social Affairs, said Ban and other world leaders know all too well “that Lebanon, with all its factions, sects and institutions, has a united stance on this regard,” and cannot tolerate such political diktats. He told reporters after attending a meeting of a ministerial committee on the refugee crisis chaired by Prime Minister Tammam Salam: “We hosted Syrian brothers just the way brothers should behave. We are a noble and generous people, but we are also patriotic. Out of our adherence to our patriotism and that of the Syrians, we refuse to give our nationality to anybody and don’t accept that others abandon their nationalities as well.”

by albawaba.com: A military judge in Lebanon on Wednesday sentenced 106 to death over participating in clashes with the Lebanese army two …