Lebanese Maronite Patriarch Cardinal Bechara Boutros Al-Rahi sat in his chair earlier this month listening to the discontentment of his parish delegations visiting him. Immigration, unemployment, bankruptcies that have hit all sectors, despair, potential school drop-outs with the start of the academ...
Politicians in Lebanon are no longer responsible for the grim state the country has reached. On one hand, there is a group that blames the policies of the Free Patriotic Movement and Hezbollah for the financial, economic, and social collapse since they were handed over governance control shortly aft...
In a press conference held by the son-in-law of the Lebanon’s president Gebran Bassil, he spoke of Israel’s fear of a regional competition with the Maronites and called for the West to help Lebanon maintain its political system. This idea has been echoed continually by Lebanon’s Christian leaders...
Much has been said and written in recent weeks about The Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act, also known as the Caesar Act, which came into effect this week. The intention of the law is it to punish Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad’s regime for committing crimes against humanity that have been docu...
Hezbollah’s "opponents" no longer want to address the Lebanese militia’s weapons. These so-called opponents continually emphasized the dangers of the militia’s arms which restrict the state’s sovereignty and independence for over a decade and a half, since the assassination of Prime Minister Rafik H...
When the Lebanese Civil War ended, Rafic El Hariri set out to bring back normal life to Lebanon, and of course, he started with the political apparatus of the country. As such he made a constitutional return to the sectarian political system. This time, however, Lebanese Christians were unsatisfied ...
Basketball fans around the world were given a special treat recently, as Netflix released a 10 part documentary series centred on basketball legend, Michael Jordan, and his achievements with the Chicago Bulls during the late 1990s.
Audiences were able to relive these historical moments, which s...
The current political process in Lebanon bears similarities with Lebanese “zajal” festivals, which used to be shown (and perhaps they are still getting airtime) on Lebanese national television. During “zajals”, four poets would be seated on a large table adorning the finest of Lebanese cuisine and g...
Former US ambassador to Germany and current Director of National Intelligence, Richard Grenell, has been working closely with German authorities these past few years to counter Hezbollah’s network in Germany. His efforts paid off as Berlin soon added the organisation’s military and political wings i...
The second decade of the third millennium has kicked off with a global crisis in the form of COVID-19. The virus started in China and has since caused the entire world to go into lockdown. Every day life has come to a sudden halt, and huge metropolises such as New York, London, Paris and Milan have ...
