From wire reports LAS VEGAS — A 24-year-old Arab American from Michigan beat out 50 other women to take the 2010 Miss USA title last night. Rima Fakih of Dearborn, Mich., won the pageant at the Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino on the Las Vegas Strip after strutting confidently in an orange and gold bikini, wearing a [...]
It is a no-brainer that Hummus is 100% Lebanese. Anyone dare to disagree? Source: CNN Lebanon set a record for the largest plate of hummus Saturday in the continuing gastronomic war with Israel over the regional delicacy. The war has played out publicly for years with two sides outdoing each other for the [...]
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 [...]
