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Lebanese Christian couples take part in a mass wedding at the Maronite Patriarchate in Bkerke on September 6, 2015. Thirty seven couples got married during the event organized by the Maronite league. (AFP)

Lebanese Maronite Christian Patriarch, Cardinal Mar Bechara Boutros al-Rahi (C) poses among couples who took part in a mass wedding at the Maronite Patriarchate in Bkerke on September 6, 2015. Thirty-seven couples got married during the event organised by the Maronite league.  (AFP)


Lebanese Maronite Christian couples take part in a mass wedding at the Maronite Patriarchate in Bkerke on September 6, 2015. Thirty seven couples got married during the event organised by the Maronite league.  (AFP)

Makram Rabah

Following the assassination of former PM Rafik Hariri in 2005, politicians and activists were debating how to brand the opposition movement to demand the immediate withdrawal of the Syrian regime from Lebanon, which was accused of killing Hariri. Many people at the time were eager to pronounce it a revolution, something which the Western media jumped on and coined as “the Cedar Revolution”.

However, Samir Kassir, a prominent columnist and intellectual, later to be assassinated, warned that it was perhaps more appropriate  to describe it as an uprising rather than a revolution. Kassir’s reasoning was plain and simple: the Lebanese had neither the stamina nor the vison to wage a revolution. What was needed was a swift political protest movement with a limited agenda, capable of achieving short-term gains.

Lebanese protestors take part in a gathering in Tyre organised by "You Stink", the non-partisan group that has organised a series of protests against Lebanon's political class and corruption, September 5, 2015 (AFP Photo/Jihad Siqlawi)

Beirut (AFP) - Only a small number of people turned out Saturday at demonstrations around Lebanon called by the "You Stink" group to protest what they call a corrupt and inept political class.

The collective had called Friday for demonstrations in the coastal city of Tyre and in Zrariyeh, both in southern Lebanon.

On Saturday around 300 people turned out in Tyre, an AFP correspondent said.

"We elected them MPs, and they have become wolves who are never satisfied," banners read.

"Thieves, thieves," people chanted.

Khazen History

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Churches and Monasteries of the Khazen family