Source: CNN (CNN) — When Olympic skier Chirine Njeim tells people she’s from Lebanon, they often laugh in disbelief. Now at the Vancouver Winter Games, and competing alongside two other athletes from her home country, Njeim still has to convince people she’s telling the truth. “A coach from another country asked me in the elevator the other day [...]
Source: huffingtonpost.com Press freedom is suffering in Lebanon, despite a modicum of maneuverability allowed by the law and the government’s non-interference with journalists, Information Minister Tarek Mitri claimed. “Journalists come to complain to me about being harassed at work, even if they belong to the same party or religious sect as the media’s owners or officials,” he [...]
Is this some sort of a game or what??? BEIRUT (Reuters) – Lebanon’s Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said on Tuesday the powerful Shi’ite guerrilla group would hit Israel’s Ben Gurion airport if the Jewish state struck Beirut’s international airport in any future war. “If you hit Rafik al-Hariri international airport in Beirut, we will hit Ben-Gurion [...]
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View Trailer here: http://www.sonypictures.com/classics/persepolis/More movie information here: http://imdb.com/title/tt0808417/Note: There now are talks that the movie has been unbanned in Lebanon…
By Khaled Yacoub Oweis DAMASCUS (Reuters) – Syrian users of Facebook said on Friday the authorities had blocked access to the social network Web site as part of a crackdown on political activism on the Internet. “Facebook helped further civil society in Syria and form civic groups outside government control. This is why it has been banned,” [...]
Naval Gazing The U.S. Navy this week unveiled a new maritime signal to be used in the Easter Mediterranean. According to senior White House sources, the message to be conveyed by the signal will be: “stop f*cking with this tiny country”. AP reports, The U.S. Navy is sending three warships to the eastern Mediterranean Sea in [...]
توقعات مايك فغالي الخاصة ل “ليبانون فايلز”مطارين في لبنان، وسواد، وازدهار، وزلزال بعد 4 هزات توقعات مايك فغالي (خاص “ليبانون فايلز”) نورد فيما يلي التوقعات التي ادلى بها الاستاذ “مايك فغالي” لموقع ليبانون فايلز حرفياً من دون تصرف او تبويب او زيادة او انقاص، وذلك للحفاظ على المصداقية، وبهدف عدم تحريف اي كلام، اذ اننا [...]
Beirut – Like Michael Hayek , Mike Faghali is also a psychic and is famous in Lebanon and the region for his predictions. Today he provided his predictions to Lebanon Files website exclusively Ya Libnan translated the predictions which were posted on Lebanon Files in Arabic . Some of these predictions are logical extrapolations and [...]
