The Guardian
The Jeita Grotto lies around 11 miles north of Beirut, in the Nahr al-Kalb valley. It is an extraordinary site which could be one of the wonders of the world but remains an intimate experience. It comprises two interconnecting karstic limestone caves, spanning 5½ miles.
There is a huge concentration of crystallised formations and extraordinary stone shapes, such as stalactites, stalagmites, columns, ponds and draperies.
Euronews, Police in Lebanon moved in to clear protesters who had staged a sit-in at the environment ministry. Their action highlighting an ongoing rubbish disposal crisis was the latest in a series of protests at the country’s political paralysis.
The demonstrators called for the resignation of Environment Minister Mohamad Al Machnouk.
Police moved in after protesters ignored an ultimatum from the authorities to leave.
The head of Green Party, who witnessed what happened, sympathises with their cause but not their methods.“We deplore state institutions being taken hostage. We can’t accept people entering state buildings like this. Our cause is purely environmental,” Nada Zaarour said angrily.
Outside the building hundreds more demonstrated.
Al Bawaba
The cumulative value of outward greenfield foreign direct investment (FDI) from Lebanon totaled $7.2 billion between January 2003 and May 2015, according to figures released by fDi Markets.Lebanon was the seventh largest source of greenfield FDI in nominal terms among 19 Arab countries during the covered period, behind the UAE ($297.4 billion), Bahrain ($68.4 billion), Kuwait ($66.5 billion), Qatar ($47.5 billion), Saudi Arabia ($41.4 billion) and Egypt ($19.8 billion).
"Google has changed a lot over the past 17 years — from the range of our products to the evolution of their look and feel," the company writes in the intro of a YouTube video announcing the news. "And today we’re changing things up once again…" The company writes that its new "simple, uncluttered, colorful, friendly" logo better reflects the different ways people interact with Google on their smartphones, watches, TVs, cars, or desktop computers.
The news comes not long after the big cooperate restructuring that turned Google into a subsidiary of a new parent company called Alphabet, run by Larry Page. This logo swap is the first dramatic change we've seen so far under new Google CEO Sundar Pichai.
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