If you want to be notified the next time I write something, sign up for FREE email alerts or subscribe to the RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Two years after the outbreak of the war in Nahr Al-Bared, the camp's fate remains unclear. the reconstruction of the official camp might start soon, but the army keeps [...]
Tagged Army, Camp, Fateh al-Islam, lebanese, Nahr al-Bared, palestinian, Refugees, video, WarThe three-month-long war between the Lebanese army and Fatah al-Islam militants in the Palestinian refugee camp of Nahr al-Bared in northern Lebanon ended on 2 September 2007. While the Lebanese army has allowed displaced residents to return to some parts of the camp, the fate of other parts of the camp still under the army's [...]
Tagged Army, Camp, Lebanon, Nahr al-Bared, Palestine, palestinian, Refugee, Refugees, WarIn may 2007, the battle between Fatah Al-Islam and the Lebanese army broke out in Nahr Al-Bared refugee camp in northern Lebanon. Amidst heavy fighting, the Lebanese army had systematically destroyed the entire camp by september 2007. Two years later, nearly all the rubble has been cleared from the "old camp", the core of Nahr [...]
Tagged Camp, Fatah Al-Islam, Fateh al-Islam, lebanese, Lebanon, Palestine, palestinian, Refugee, Refugees, WarBy Franklin Lamb, Beirut
Time for transparency at Der Spiegel?
"We don't know where the Der Spiegel magazine did get their information from and we don't know where they brought this story from. No one in the prosecutor's office has spoken to the German magazine about anything. We have a clear policy of not leaking any information [...]
More than a year after their homes were destroyed during the battle between the Lebanese army and the militant Islamist group Fatah al-Islam, the majority of the refugees from Nahr al-Bared in north Lebanon find themselves in a difficult situation. Not able to return to their homes, stuck in pre-fabricated housing units and often unemployed, [...]
Tagged Lebanon, Nahr al-Bared, Nahr-el-Bared, palestinian, Refugee, RefugeesOne year has passed since the first Palestinians were allowed to return to the outskirts of the destroyed Nahr al-Bared refugee camp, to the so-called "new camp". Meanwhile, up to 15.000 people have resettled there, many of them waiting to access their destroyed homes in the "old camp", the core of what used to be [...]
Tagged Lebanon, Nahr al-Bared, palestinian, palestinian-refugees, Refugee, Refugees, videoEarly in the morning, between 5 and 6am, a wave of footsteps and whispering voices can be heard in the narrow alleys of Bourj ash-Shamali Refugee Camp [Sabbah: Palestinian Refugee Camp] in South Lebanon. It is in the darkness of the early morning hours that hundreds of Palestinian day laborers leave their homes, gather in [...]
Tagged Camp, camps, harvest, Lebanon, orange, palestinian, palestinian-refugees, Refugee, RefugeesBy Raja Chemayel
My phone ran up ,I picked it up ,
it was my brother phoning me from Beirut.
"Guess what !! we have won !!"…..he said.
I answered him ,
Why ?? did the US Embassy close down and left ??
or did Samir Geagea hang himself ???
"No !! we are winning………..
can't you understand ??? he shouted.
Tell [...]
Norman Finkelstein, a Jewish American political scientist and author, specializing in Jewish-related issues and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in particular talks about the Lebanese militia Hezbollah and openly supports and praises their resistance: "They (Hezbollah) show courage, they show discipline, I respect that"
On Israeli defeat and consequential withdrawal from Lebanon in 2000, Finkelstein says:"But the reality [...]
The long awaited final Winograd's report came out with unsurprising (or surprising? doesn't make a difference here) conclusions that saved Olmert's ass and his sick cabinet, however, that's not what I'm interested in at all. The real interesting part is the relation between Hillary Clinton and Winograd report.
How?
Winograd report states that the Israeli occupation forces [...]
Whew… Israel - and its army - saved again from that nasty anti Semitic PR by parents of dead children ( I remember those pictures, doesn't anyone else? More massacre albums here, here, here, here and here ) by its its own extremely fair and just politicians…
The Israel Defense Forces will not take legal action [...]
Wanted: Angelina Jolie's luscious lips or Lebanese sex bomb Haifa Wehbe's nose or breasts.
Men and women from oil-rich Arab Gulf states have been coming in droves to fix their noses, lift buttocks and enlarge their breasts in Lebanon, attracted by the reputation of the country's surgeons, its low prices, good weather and buzzing night-life.
"Sixty percent [...]
It's time of the year for Worldwide Press Freedom Index 2007. With all my reservations regarding Reporters Without Borders neutrality (having doubt after knowing that France is their financial supporter, although they are an NGO!), yet, their report was always a good indicator, if not the closest to reality - at least from my experiences [...]
Tagged Arab, Censorship, Freedom of Speech, freedom-of-pressThis is spacial news for Hillary who voted for more cluster bombs:
A British man was killed on Thursday while clearing cluster bombs dropped on southern Lebanon by Israel during its war with Hezbollah guerrillas last year, a United Nations spokeswoman said.
He was the 13th person to be killed during work to clear unexploded ordinance from [...]
I admit I have missed the news when it was announced end of last July, but better late than never.
Honored to be Bahraini by soul for living in Bahrain for the last four years, I am very happy to know that Wafaa Ganahi, a 23-year-old teacher from the Law Faculty of Bahrain University, won the [...]
