News tagged with “lebanese”. Found:
127 tagged news reports.
Your Search Returned 127 tagged news reports
Lebanon's other women 'out' in force
Beirut :: Lebanon | 8 days ago
Credibility
One story is by a woman struggling to reconcile her religion and sexual orientation. Another speaks about the hardships of coming out in Lebanese society and a third deals with rape. The book, the first such initiative in the largely conservative Arab...
Tags: Lebanon, Meem, Beirut, Helem, Lebanese, AFP, told afp, Closeted, LGBT rights organizations, Social Issues, International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission, Non-heterosexual, LGBT rights in Lebanon
Investment scandal hurts Hezbollah's image, even among backers
Lebanon :: TN :: USA | 11 days ago
Credibility Suleiman's brother was a Hezbollah fighter, killed in the 2006 war with Israel ...And now, his life's fortune is gone, too, lost along with the money of thousands of other Lebanese who put their faith in a billionaire financier with close ties to Hezbollah....
Tags: Hezbollah, Salah Ezzedine, Suleiman, Lebanon, Israeli, Lebanese, Shiite, Hezbollah foreign relations, Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah military activities, Politics, Anti-Zionism, Israel-Lebanon conflict, Islam and antisemitism, Islamic terrorism
Activists press Cabinet to work toward granting women nationality rights
Beirut :: Lebanon | 11 days ago
Credibility to demand an overhaul of the current discriminatory legislation, formulated in 1925. The law allows men to pass on their nationality to their non-Lebanese wives and children but forbids Lebanese women married to non-Lebanese from doing the same.
Tags: Lebanon, Lebanese, nationality law, Lina Abou-Habib, audience member, CRTD, ministerial statement, Nationality Campaign, Beirut, Human rights in Lebanon, Israel-Lebanon conflict, Lebanese Civil War, Fouad Abou Nader, Social Issues
Arab World: A democratically elected puppet?
Damascus :: Syria | 16 days ago
Credibility It would seem that Syria suffered a major defeat last week with the formation of a Lebanese national unity government. Syria has for years fought long and hard to keep Lebanon under its thumb, but in 2004, with the assassination of former prime minister...
Tags: Hizbullah, Rafic Hariri, Syria, Saad Hariri, Lebanon, Lebanese, veto powers, national unity, prime minister, unity government, Damascus, Arab people, Fouad Siniora, Michel Aoun, Hezbollah, Israel-Lebanon conflict, Lebanon￢ﾀﾓSyria relations, Lebanese Civil War, Politics
Aad: Cases of Lebanese detainees in Syrian prisons would not be closed until investigations are complete
Beirut :: Lebanon | 21 days ago
Credibility Monday that the cases of Lebanese detainees in Syrian prisons would not be closed until investigations are complete, stressing that he holds “all the Lebanese politicians who ruled before Syrian withdrawal” from the country in 2005 responsible for the...
Tags: Lebanese, Lebanon, Beirut, War Conflict, Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation, Lebanon￢ﾀﾓSyria relations
Sleiman lays foundation stone at Yamuna dam
Beirut :: Lebanon | 24 days ago
Credibility NOW’s correspondent in Bekaa reported on Saturday that President Michel Sleiman arrived at the village of Yamuna in Baalbek to lay down the foundation stone for the dam at the Yamuna lake. The president is expected to make a speech during the ceremony...
Tags: Voice of Lebanon radio, Lebanon Bookmark, Denmark, Syria, Walid Jumblatt, Michel Sleiman, Lebanese, ministerial statement, congratulated lebanon, Lebanon, Beirut, Baalbek District, Military of Lebanon, Michel Suleiman, Baalbek, Hospitality Recreation, Human Interest, Fertile Crescent, Lebanese military personnel, Great Rift Valley, War Conflict, Politics, Kamal Jumblatt, Jumblatt family, Rafic Hariri, Progressive Socialist Party, Lebanese Civil War, Druze, Irregular military, Hariri, Cedar Revolution, Syrian occupation of Lebanon, Lebanon￢ﾀﾓSyria relations, Bashar al-Assad
Al-Watan says Sleiman’s trip prelude to Hariri’s “national duty” to visit Syria
Beirut :: Lebanon | 24 days ago
Credibility Syrian newspaper Al-Watan said on Friday that President Michel Slieman’s visit to Damascus on Thursday was a “prelude” to Prime Minister Saad Hariri’s “national duty” to visit Syria, which it added will be soon. The daily said that it is Hariri’s “national...
Tags: Saad Hariri, Syrian, prime minister, minister saad, Lebanon, visit syria, cabinet receives, Damascus, Lebanese, Bouthaina Shaaban, Beirut, Amine Gemayel, Gemayel, Movement of the Future, Pierre Amine Gemayel, Lebanese by-elections, Nadim Gemayel, Kataeb Party, March 14 Alliance, Politics, Free Patriotic Movement, Gebran Bassil, Lebanese Civil War, Lebanese military personnel, Michel Aoun, Anti-Syrian, Bahaa Hariri, Rafic Hariri, Hariri, Lebanon￢ﾀﾓSyria relations, Mediterranean, Western Asia, Hezbollah, Fertile Crescent, Levant, War Conflict
Lebanese economic shake-up to focus on privatization
Beirut :: Lebanon | 25 days ago
Credibility Newly appointed Finance Minister Raya Haffar said on Wednesday that achieving higher economic growth in Lebanon requires a political harmony and a will to carry out necessary reforms. “Lebanon can attain even higher economic growth if political synchronization...
Tags: Saad Hariri, Kataeb Party, Lebanon, Lebanese, minister saad, Raya Haffar, prime minister
Najjar says Sleiman laid foundations for Ministerial Statement
Beirut :: Lebanon | 26 days ago
Credibility Wednesday that President Michel Sleiman laid the foundations for the Ministerial Statement, before commending Prime Minister Saad Hariri’s leadership skills, which “he demonstrated during the cabinet-formation process.” Najjar also said that his name...
Tags: Lebanon First, Saad Hariri, Lebanese, ministerial statement, Kataeb Party, unity government, minister saad, Hamas, prime minister
Hamas congratulates Lebanon for forming national-unity cabinet
Beirut :: Lebanon | 27 days ago
Credibility Hamas Movement issued a statement on Tuesday congratulating President Michel Sleiman, Speaker Nabih Berri and Prime Minister Saad Hariri on their success in forming a national-unity cabinet in Lebanon. The statement added that the formation proves that...
Tags: Lebanon Bookmark, Lebanon Bookmark, unity cabinet, prime minister, minister saad, Saad Hariri, Lebanese, ministerial statement
Site Links
Site Topics
Contributions
- Report Your News
- Add your voice and contribute via your cellphone - check out how to Report News via Your Cellphone
- Blog Widget
- Widget for Blog Owner
