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Lebanese bombshell Maya Diab turned heads on Friday night after performing on the TV singing competition Star Academy.
The sexy senorita made three wardrobe changes on the night, leaving less to the imagination with each new outfit.
First Maya came out dressed in a see-through fishnet dress, which showed off her long pins and more than what some of us might have wanted to see.
by dailyStar.com.lb
Sierra Leone reportedly informed Lebanon that it has agreed to take in the small Mediterranean country’s trash, local daily As-Safir said Saturday.
The Lebanese Foreign Ministry received a letter Thursday from Sierra Leone authorities informing it of the country’s willingness to accept Lebanon’s waste.
The letter, which was originally directed to Holland’s Howa BV firm, is allegedly signed by an adviser for Sierra Leone President Ernest Bai Koroma.
As-Safir newspaper said that Freetown, Sierra Leone’s capital, consented on the condition that the waste be free of toxins, underlining that the approval remains at a preliminary stage until Sierra Leone’s government and president confirm the deal.
Lebanon is bound by the U.N. Basel Convention on hazardous waste
The Associated Press, Beirut Saturday, 9 January 2016 Lebanese security officials say masked gunmen have shot and killed a police intelligence officer and wounded his wife in an attack on the officer’s car in a town near the Syrian border. The officials say the officer, Zaher Izzedine, died instantly in Friday’s attack while his wounded […]
Khalil Gibran, born 6 January 1883, is one of the most quoted prose poets, especially his 1923 work The Prophet. In The Prophet, we are told that Almustafa, a holy man, has been living in exile, in a city called Orphalese for twelve years. A ship is coming to take him home to the island of his birth. People gather and ask him for his final words of wisdom — on love, on work, on joy, on children. The book has become bedside reading for all those who consider themselves “spiritual but not religious”.
But there is also an earlier Gibran writing in Arabic, a critic of the political and religious conditions of his day — a set of four short stories bound together as Spirits Rebellious. (1) Soon after the publication of the original Arabic version of Spirits Rebellious in 1908, considerable agitation developed. The book was publicly burned in the Beirut market place by Maronite Church and Ottoman State officials who judged it fiercely dangerous to the peace of the country. Gibran’s bitter denunciation of both religious and political injustice brought his anticipated exile from the country. As he was already living in Paris to study art at the time, it meant not returning to Lebanon rather than having to leave. However, he was also excommunicated from the Church, which can be considered serious in a country where much civil identity and justice was based on religious membership — not to mention the popular idea that God did not allow excommunicated souls into his Heaven.
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syrian rebels said President Bashar al-Assad’s opponents are under international pressure to make concessions that would prolong the conflict, underscoring their doubts about a new U.N.-led drive for peace talks planned to begin this month.
An opposition council that met U.N. envoy Staffan de Mistura this week was under pressure "to offer concessions that will prolong the suffering of our people and the spilling of their blood", a statement signed by prominent rebel groups said.
The opposition council of rebels and Assad’s political opponents was set up last month to oversee negotiations, which are envisaged as part of a new effort to settle the five-year-long war that has killed 250,000 people.
by middleeastmonitor.com The Lebanese Parliament has postponed presidential elections for the 34th times due to the lack of quorum, Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri announced on Wednesday. “The Iranian-Saudi crisis has big implications,” Berri said, adding: “After we have been striving to elect a President of the Republic, our top ambition has turned to maintain dialogue.” […]
A former US defense secretary who served under four presidents referred the young aides on US President Barack Obama’s national-security and foreign-policy teams as "dangerously naive" in an article published on Thursday in Politico magazine.
The article describes the disillusionment of many of Obama’s top advisers who feel that the president’s rhetoric has not matched up to his policies, especially in the Middle East.
"Many Obama supporters started out believing that the president had grand ambitions for replacing George W. Bush’s militaristic posture with a more enlightened and progressive approach to the world before coming to believe they had misread a president who was not the idealistic internationalist they had thought he was," Michael Crowley wrote for the magazine.
Adds details on Charara, new law, Szubin quote, effect of the sanctions)
WASHINGTON, Jan 7 (Reuters) – The United States imposed sanctions on Thursday on Lebanese financier Ali Youssef Charara and his telecommunications company for providing support to Hezbollah, the first such designations made under a law signed by President Barack Obama last month.
Charara serves as chairman and general manager of Beirut-based Spectrum Investment Group Holding SAL, which provides telecommunications services in the Middle East, Africa and Europe, the U.S. Treasury Department said.
He has received millions of dollars from Hezbollah to invest in commercial projects that financially support the group, the department said in a statement.
Carlos Slim Helu
The population of Lebanon is, at upper estimates, around 4 million – not counting the million-plus refugees.
But Lebanese living in Lebanon is just a drop in the bucket: Multiply that by two or three and you’ve got the number of Lebanese expatriates; we like to spread around quite extensively!
Here are the top 10 Lebanese expat communities around the world by population size, based on estimates, along with some of the most famous people form each country who are of Lebanese descent.
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