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President Michel Suleiman voting in Amchit
 

 

Lebanese voters wait outside a polling station to cast their vote during the country's municipal elections in Dekwaneh, northeast of Beirut
 
 
 
Tens of thousands of Lebanese headed to their Mount Lebanon hometowns Sunday to vote in the first of four-stage municipal elections marked largely by consensus among rival politicians.

Additional army and police forces have been deployed in Mount Lebanon towns and outside polling stations to ensure security for the vote.

There are 795,372 registered voters in Mount Lebanon, the nation's most populous province. They will choose 313 municipal councils from among 9,559 candidates and 921 village headmen from among 1,377 candidates.

Interior Minister Ziad Baroud said 57 of the 313 Mount Lebanon municipalities have been won uncontested.

Municipal elections in Lebanon are held every six years. The three remaining stages of voting will be held this month

Cities with tight elections: Jounieh - Ghosta - Zouk Mikhael - Kfardbyen - Sin el Fil - Antelias - Dbaye - Jbeil - Ajaltoun - Dekwaneh many cities in chouf and baabda and many more.  

 

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New Tv Response

Written By Malek el Khazen     In one of your Last Week News introduction, in response of the Patriarch of Antioch …

 

Written by Malek Fady el Khazen
 
In response to an article that tayyar.org posted about the Notables and Laws:
 
http://www.tayyar.org/Tayyar/News/PoliticalNews/ar-LB/elkhazen-keserwan-ed-89034.htm
 
I have read with great disappointment this article, first because they are wasting our time and secondly because they are either ignorant or what they claim is either lies or fiction and falsification of the Lebanese history. “A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.” (Marcus Garvey)
 
In the tayyar article they are praising and envy Tanios Chahine Rebellion:
 
1- Tanios Chahine has slaughtered young children and women all because their family name was el Khazen!
2- Tanios Chahine was used as a tool by the English and Ottomans to eliminate their historical rivals, the el Khazen family and to control the trade route from India to Lebanon
3- Tanios Chahine was also referred as "Cheikh el Chabeb" I thought Chahine was against feudalism? Why would he give himself a feudal title?
4- Tanios Chahine fight was only against one feudal family. One part of Chahine Jacquerie Rebellion was a result of a power struggle from one side the Abi-Lamaa family, England and turkey and from the other side the Khazen.
5- During the French revolution all the noble families were put aside from power or even eliminated. While during the 1858 so called rebellion there was not a single attack against feudal families except the Khazen. So the question is how did this rebellion end feudalism?
6- The results of the 1858 rebellion left the Maronites with no leaders which has caused the community of being slaughter during the 1860 massacres
7- Tanios Chahine fled in the 1860 massacres lead by the Druze against the Maronite community to hide in the el Khazen house and leaving his community.

By Deacon Keith Fournier 4/10/2010 Catholic Online (www.catholic.org) Now that he is The "800 pound Gorilla" in the room in the coming …

Khazen History

Historical Feature:
Churches and Monasteries of the Khazen family