Lack of a breakthrough in Lebanon’s presidential election was a foregone conclusion ahead of a parliamentary vote scheduled for Thursday with a majority of March 8 lawmakers pledging to boycott the session again. The lack of quorum will bring Lebanon ever closer to presidential vacuum as President Michel Sleiman’s term ends Sunday.   But despite […]

  President Michel Suleiman has promised to follow up on the achievements that he has made during his tenure, including the implementation of the Baabda Declaration, hoping for similar moves by the country’s new head of state. In remarks to An Nahar daily published on Thursday, two days before a ceremony he will hold on the […]

  Maronite institutions warned on Wednesday lawmakers against the failure to elect a new president and the consequent vacuum in the country’s top post. They said: “Obstructing presidential elections sessions violates the constitution and the national pact.” They made their statement after holding a meeting chaired by Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi at Bkirki. Moreover, they cautioned that vacuum […]

  Tele Liban’s chairman of the board said Wednesday that the state-run television station is waiting on Doha about rights to broadcast the 2014 World Cup. “There is no confirmation,” Chairman Talal Makdessi told The Daily Star on Wednesday. Makdessi said that political and diplomatic sources received a “verbal promise” that they would be able to […]

    Who was Cheikh Barbar Beik el Khazen?  Barbar Beik el Khazen, son of Cheikh Fendi el Khazen and Sultana daughter of Cheikh Chahine el Dahir was born on September 21 1861. On 15 November 1896, he married Therese daughter of Ghandour Beik El Saad, sister of Habib Basha El Saad, who gave him […]

  The Jewish community in Lebanon has officially denounced the State of Israel as the country’s sole synagogue prepares to reopen in Beirut. “We have no connection to those who wanted to live in Palestine and kill innocent people,” Isaac Arazi, head of Lebanon’s dwindling Jewish community, announced to a reporter. He spoke with the London-based A-Sharq […]

  SIDON, Lebanon: A statue of a Phoenician priest has been uncovered at an excavation site in the southern city of Sidon, along with other antiquities, the most unique find for Lebanon in decades, the British Museum team announced Monday. The priest, 115 centimeters high and dating back to the sixth century B.C., was found at […]

  Maronite Patriarch Beshara Rai stood firm Monday on his decision to go to occupied Jerusalem, a visit that has stirred controversy in Lebanon. “I told Prime Minister [Tammam Salam] that we are going to Jerusalem on a church- and pastoral-related visit,” Rai told reporters at the Grand Serail in Downtown Beirut. “There is no political motive […]

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  Beirut’s Magen Avraham Synagogue is due to reopen its doors after extensive renovations, according to a report by Israel Radio. The current structure was destroyed by Israeli shelling during the Lebanon Wars.Many Jewish residents of Lebanon subsequently emigrated following the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982 fearing reprisals. Magen Avraham Synagogue is the Lebanese capital’s only […]