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Tag Archives: Lebanese
A Beirut River Park, Why Not?
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Tagged Beirut, environment, green, green space, Lebanese, Lebanon, Park, parks, seaside, urban, Urban Design, Urban Park, urban planning, urban renewal
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And, we continue to live in darkness…
While our dimwit, visionless, and completely corrupt politicians drag us further into the new dark ages, literally and figuratively, a country not too far from us basks in abundance of light! Denmark is one of the smallest countries in Europe, yet it ranks 21st … Continue reading
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Tagged amal, amin gemayel, aoun, électricité du liban, Beirut, berri, beyrouth, dannish, denmark, electricity, Free Patriotic Movement, geagea, gemayel, hariri, Hassan Nassrallah, hizbullah, jumblatt, kataeb, Lebanese, Lebanese Forces, lebanese politicis, Lebanon, Liban, libanais, libanaise, michel aoun, nabih, nabih berri, Phalangist, saad hariri, sami gemayel, samir geagea, walid jumblatt, wind power
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Anthony Bourdain Returns to Beirut
Beirut is the next stop on Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown. Bourdain describes Beirut perfectly. He says, “It makes no damn sense at all in the best possible way, and you should come here.” While it’s absolutely true that Beirut makes … Continue reading
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Tagged anthony bourdain, Beirut, cooking, food, gourmet, Lebanese, lebanese cuisine, lebanese food, Lebanon, Levant, parts unknown
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The Armenian Genocide: Time for Turkey to Face Up to Its Own History
No matter how much Turkish leaders today try to sugarcoat the legacy of the Ottoman Empire, the result will always come out bitter. Turkish President, Erdoğan can bemoan European imperialism as much as he wants, but that will never whitewash … Continue reading
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Tagged Alawite, armenia, Armenian, Armenian genocide, armeniangenocide, Assyrian, Beirut, Cypriot, Druze, Erdoğan, genocide, Greek, gutenburg, Imperialism, Iraq, Lebanese, Lebanon, Levant, Levantine, Maronite, masscacre, Ottoman, Ottoman Empire, printing press, Shia, turkey, turkish, Yazidis, Yerevan
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What Arabs can learn from the Scots!
Israel has decided to officially recognize Arameans as a distinct nationality in the country’s population. It allows Arabic-speaking Christians of Israel to change their status from “Arab” to “Aramean.” This has created uproar among Palestinians, and other Arabs, accusing Israel … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazigh, Arab, Arab Christians, Arabic, Arabs, Arameans, Armenian, Brit, Druze, Ethnicity, Heritage, homogenization, Kurd, Languages, Lebanese, Maronite, referendum, Scotland, Scots, Self-determination
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What the Municipality of Beirut Can learn from New York’s Times Square
If this could be done on the busiest intersection in one of the most populated cities in the world, then what excuse does the Municipality of Beirut have? The fact is that the people administering the affairs of our capital … Continue reading
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Tagged Beirut, Lebanese, Lebanon, new york, Public Space, Snøhetta, Times Square, urban, Urban Design
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Rescuing the Beirut River the Korean Way
A picturesque river once ran through a capital city, but as the city grew, the river was buried under tons of cement. Does that sound familiar? For Beirutis it should, but I’m not writing here about Beirut’s ancient river, but about … Continue reading
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Tagged Beirut, Beirut River, Carla Aramouny, Cheonggyecheon, city, ecology, environment, korea, Lebanese, Lebanon, Park, Phillipe Skaff, river, Sandra Frem, seoul, urban, Urban Park, urban renewal
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“A Letter from Beirut” by John Keane
John Keane, Professor of Politics at University of Sydney on Lebanon, Syria and the failure of the democratic world… “Does democracy have anything to do with the worsening humanitarian catastrophe in Syria? In recent days, in editorials and columns around … Continue reading
Ranking near the bottom of the global peace index
While Hassan Nassrallah tries to “liberated” Syria, his own country ranks near the bottom of the global peace index. Then again, the word “peace” is not in his dictionary. “Lebanon ranked 142 out of 162 countries in a global peace ranking, … Continue reading
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Tagged Hassan Nassrallah, Lebanese, Lebanon, Peace, Vision of Humanity
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“The Lebanese Message” on BBC
BBC’s John Laurenson’s asks in this edition of Heart & Soul, whether the Lebanese Message, which Pope John Paul II exalted, can survive with the Christian population shrinking due to immigration and war threatening to spill over from neighboring Syria. Laurenson … Continue reading
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Tagged Arab, BBC, Beirut, Benedict XVI, Catholic, Christian, Heart & Soul, John Laurenson, Lebanese, Lebanon, Muslim, Pope, Pope John Paull II
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Imagining Lebanon 