Lebanon's most unlikely war hero
9 May, 2008
By Rebecca Armstrong
The manager of Le Royal Hotel in Beirut is flustered. Fumbling for keys and dropping credit cards, he explains that his jitters are because there's a big star staying in the hotel whom he has just had the good fortune to meet.
LSD is the latest trend in Lebanon's drug scene
9 May, 2008
By Hala Alyan
"It's like being part of a huge spiritual experience. When it hits you and you look around the room and realize that everyone is sharing it with you...that's what it means to me."
Capturing human catastrophe through visual arts
6 May, 2008
By Tom Lewis,
Ya Libnan Volunteer
It is happy news that although the scintillating Home Works IV forum on cultural practices is now but a distant memory, one ember still glows brightly in its wake.
2008 'Follow the Women' bike ride in Lebanon
5 May, 2008
Beirut - The follow the women organization has released the following on the occasion of the bike ride which will start in Lebanon and ends in Palestine in 2008 .
Lebanese in Virginia preaches lessons learned from civil war
4 May, 2008
By Gene Marrano
From his childhood in Lebanon to his present and greatly appreciated life in the Roanoke Valley as a physician and internal medicine specialist at Lewis-Gale Medical Center, Roy Habib felt he had a story to tell.
Ethiopia bans its citizens from seeking jobs in Lebanon
3 May, 2008
Beirut / Addis Ababa -- Celebrating Labor Day on Thursday, Ethiopia has officially banned all travel of its citizens to Beirut in search of jobs. The Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs disclosed.
The New Levantine Style
3 May, 2008
By Andrew Lee Butters, TIME
Lebanon's contradictions - it's the geographic and figurative bridge between East and West, modern and traditional, Muslim and Christian - have been a source of both instability and inspiration.
Lebanese roots inspire Brazilian jewelry artist
3 May, 2008
By Geovana Pagel
Sao Paulo - Her passion for Arab music began when designer Maria Fagundes from Sao Paulo was still a child.
Hollywood continues to propagate negative Arab stereotypes
2 May, 2008
Beirut - American films and TV dramas portray Arabs and Muslims as fanatics and villains, ingraining harmful stereotypes and easing the path for U.S. foreign policy, a U.S. academic argues.
Have a banana, it's an amazing fruit!
1 May, 2008
Beirut - Ya Libnan received the following article that will make you want to have a banana each minute. We thought we will share it with our readers, because of the tremendous health benefits this fruit offers.
Haifa covers up body to sing in Bahrain
1 May, 2008
Beirut & Manama - Haifa Wehbe, Lebanon's unofficial sex symbol, performed in Bahrain despite a controversial attempt by the ultra-conservative parliament to stop the show.
The U.S.is home to many Hezbollah Shiites from Lebanon
30 April, 2008
By: Mona Alami
Beirut- The growing rift between the U.S. and Iran has spread also to Lebanese soil, with Muslim Shiite youngsters frequently seen burning U.S. flags.
Jesus is Muslim in Iran
30 April, 2008
By Jeffrey Fleishman
Tehran - A man wrapped in a shawl stood at the door. "This is Jesus," said another man.
The show goes on for Haifa Wehbe in Bahrain
30 April, 2008
Efforts by conservative MP's to ban Haifa Wehbe from a major concert in Bahrain fell through, allowing her to perform on Labor Day on Wednesday.
Syrian beheaded by Saudi Arabia for drug smuggling
28 April, 2008
Beirut / Damascus - Scores of angry Syrians are protesting in Damascus against Saudi Arabia's beheading of a countryman convicted of drug smuggling.
Open audition for film tackling Lebanese-Australian stereotypes
28 April, 2008
Sydney - Transformers star Rachael Taylor is to return home to star in a controversial low-budget film that offers realistic insight into the lives of young Australian Lebanese men.
From New York to Beirut, flash mobs a phenomenon
22 April, 2008
By Tamar Trocki and Carol Kuruvilla
Last Friday, New York University College of Arts & Sciences (CAS) junior Simon Levy happened to glance out his window.
AUB alumni named Carnegie Scholar
21 April, 2008
Tufts University professor and Cambridge resident Leila Fawaz was named a 2008 Carnegie Scholar by the Carnegie Corp. of New York and will receive a two-year grant of up to $100,000 for her research on "The Experience of War: Muslims in the Middle East and South Asia, 1914-1920."
Israel reliving 'embarrasing' 2006 war through film
20 April, 2008
By Griff Witte
Soon after war unexpectedly broke out on the border between Israel and Lebanon in the summer of 2006, Yariv Mozer, then a 28-year-old Israeli reservist, was called up to the front. With him, he took his rifle and his video camera.
South Korean troops give back to South Lebanon
19 April, 2008
Tyre - Her bright red Islamic veil framing her young face and contrasting sharply with her white uniform, Walaa Ayoub kicks up a storm as she practices the taekwondo moves her South Korean trainer has taught her.
