Even if independent candidates don’t win big on election day, they are already having an impact on Lebanese political culture....
Text above reads roughly: “What are you waiting for? 0 percent downpayment. Now you can be independent” It’s hard to...
In Arabic “جو” (pronounced jao or jaaw) means atmosphere or mood. Somehow it doesn’t convey the same ‘mood’ in English....
The Lebanese police are celebrating their 153rd anniversary. At a commemoration event, the head of the force pledged officers would...
Keep your friends close, but keep your enemies closer. I’m not a fan of quoting cliches, but in these Machiavellian times,...
There has been much fanfare about the removal of political signs and posters from Beirut, as part of a reported...
It’s easy to get the depressed with all the violence in the news these days and the knee-jerk jingoism to accompany...
Lebanese president Michel Sleiman left office today, but his presidency will linger a while longer in billboards erected across the...
For those interested, this is actually not a joke. He told me with a straight face that he’d given up...