French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius called Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblatt on Sunday and voiced France’s support for Lebanon’s stability, the PSP said in a statement. The statement also said that Fabius voiced France’s solidarity with Lebanon “in this critical phase” as well as “support for Lebanon’s stability.” Earlier on Sunday, demonstrators congregating in […]
President Michel Suleiman on Sunday stressed that the government “must not provide cover for perpetrators and criminals” and called for “speeding up the indictments” in the cases of ex-minister Michel Samaha and the Nahr al-Bared clashes, in a speech eulogizing slain Maj. Gen. Wissam a-Hasan, chief of the Internal Security Forces’ Intelligence Bureau. “I cannot […]
The funeral for a top Lebanese security official has turned violent as protesters demanding the resignation of the government poured into the streets around central Beirut amid teargas, rock throwing and the occasional burst of gunfire by security forces. Lebanon’s political opposition had called upon protesters to use the funeral of General Wissam al-Hassan, […]
Social networking seems like a very new phenomenon and, certainly for the younger generation, it’s hard to imagine a world without Facebook and Twitter. But social isn’t (and never was) just these two platforms – in fact, it actually predates both of them by over thirty years. Yep. The history of social media is, […]
The Princeton Review ranked the Northeastern University School of Law as having the most liberal law students, in its 2013 edition of the “Best 168 Law Schools,” which was released last week.
The Princeton Review surveyed 18,000 students attending the 168 law schools to decide a number of titles, including the schools with the “best professors,” “best classroom experience,” and “best career prospects.”
To determine whether a school was liberal or conservative, students were asked the following question, “If there is a prevailing political bent among students at your school, how would you characterize it?” Answer choices were: very liberal, liberal, middle of the road, somewhat conservative, very conservative. The Vermont Law School came in second, and American University ranked third. The Ave Maria School of Law in Florida was named the law school with the most conservative students.
Among other rankings by the Princeton Review, Simmons College offered the best opportunities for women among business schools. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology business school ranked the toughest to get into. The Yale Law School (not Harvard) ranked as the toughest law school to get into.
Liza Hays, a third-year student at the Northeastern School of Law, said she used to work for MoveOn.org, a public policy advocacy group that is considered very liberal. But at Northeastern, she leans to the right.
“I feel conservative at Northeastern,” Hays said. “And in the general population I’m liberal.”
Daniel Medwed, who teaches criminal law at Northeastern, said he has taught at two other law schools, one in New York and the other in Utah, and that Northeastern students are by far the most progressive.
“[It’s] really refreshing and exciting as a teacher,” he said.
Medwed said at his previous schools there were “pockets of progressive students,” and he is pleased with the number of forward thinking students at Northeastern who care deeply about public interest law. Many of his students are interested in pursuing careers in the non-profit world, he said.
“What’s wonderful about Northeastern and what attracted me to work here is the public service aspect,” Medwed said. “A large number of students are committed to serving the public interest.”
Audai Cote, who is originally from Revere, said the political bent at the Northeastern School of Law is reflective of Massachusetts in general, he said.
“It’s almost a smaller representation of Boston,” said Cote, who is a first year student.
Cote said he is socially liberal but fiscally conservative, and that he usually does not talk politics while at school. He thinks the Princeton Review ranking is strongly tied to the substantial number of LGBT students at Northeastern.
Sarah Young, a third-year student, agreed.
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Sunni Muslims took to the streets and burned tires across Lebanon in protest against the killing of senior intelligence official Wissam al-Hassan in a car bomb on Friday, witnesses said.Protesters, infuriated by the death of the prominent Sunni, blocked roads in the eastern Bekaa valley region, the northern area of Akkar, neighborhoods of the capital Beirut and in the southern city of Sidon. Former Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri accused Syrian President Bashar al-Assad – a member of an offshoot of Shi’ite Islam – of being behind the huge car bomb which killed Hassan and at least seven other people in central Beirut on Friday. The attack has brought the violence in neighboring Syria to the Lebanese capital, confirming fears that the conflict is infecting the surrounding region.
Sunni Muslim protesters burn tires and block street in Beirut as they protest against kiling Senior Lebanese intelligence official al-Hassan
Firefighters extinguish fire at the scene of an explosion in Ashrafieh, central Beirut
People react as Lebanese policemen secure the scene of an explosion in Ashrafieh in Central Beirut
Raw: Car bomb rips through East Beirut
Members of civil defence and Lebanese civilians carry an injured man after an explosion
Lebanese Red Cross and civil defence personnel work at site of explosion in the Ashafriyeh
A deadly car bomb blast which rocked a main square in Beirut on Friday brought back dark memories of Lebanon’s violent past and the civil war which tore the country apart. "We’ve seen this all before, we’ve grown up with it," said 34-year-old Bassam, who works in the Ashrafieh neighborhood where the bomb struck. The […]
ولد وسام الحسن إبن بلدة بتوراتيج الكورانية العام 1965 وهي بلدةعرفت بشغفها بالسلك العسكري وحبها لخدمة الوطن. كان وسام الحسن ضابطا ً ملحقا ً برئيس الوزراء الراحل رفيق الحريري و مكلفا ً بمهمة البروتوكول ، وصودف عدم وجوده معه يوم إستشهاده في الرابع عشر من شباط 2005. عُين في العام 2006 رئيسا ً لشعبة […]
Brigadier General Wissam al-Hasan, chief of the Intelligence Bureau of the Internal Security Forces, was killed on Friday in a car bomb attack in the Beirut district of Ashrafiyeh, state-run National News Agency reported. The powerful explosion rocked a street adjacent to Sassine Square in Ashrafiyeh, leaving seven other people dead and 78 others wounded, […]
ARSAL: This Lebanese border town has become a safe haven for war-weary Syrian rebels, a way station for wounded fighters and home to hundreds of frightened Syrian refugee families. Residents of Arsal, a Sunni Muslim town of 40,000, say they have strong motives to help those trying to topple Syria’s regime: they themselves were harassed […]
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