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The Maronite Patriarch said Monday the Lebanese National Pact was a covenant among the country's religious minorities rather than a bilateral compromise between Christians and Muslims. On the eve of the anniversary of the Maronites patron Saint Maroun, Sfeir warned Maronites against selling their land and stressed that Lebanon, though not the Maronites' country of origin

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Nahas calls for turning Beirut into Arab broadcasters' center

Telecommunications Minister Charbel Nahas pledged on Monday to provide all the facilities required to make Lebanon and especially Beirut a city center for all broadcasters' studios which have the capacity of providing the best technologies and most modern techniques. "Lebanon will make every effort in order to transform Beirut to an open city for broadcasters [...] Full story

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Too much ado about a handshake

There are handshakes, and then there are handshakes. One type of handshake took place recently in Europe, at a security conference in Munich, between Saudi Prince Turki al-Faisal and Israeli official Danny Ayalon.

Naturally, the incident has sparked a commotion in the Arab world, similar to such occasions in the past. Such "scandals" are a dreary waste of time and effort

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Ethiopian Airliner's flight recorders sent to France

The flight recorders from the Ethiopian Airlines plane which crashed off the coast of Beirut were transported Monday to France, where investigators hope to unlock the secret of what caused the disaster. A team of specialists left Rafik Hariri International Airport at dawn with the black boxes on Prime Minister Saad Hariri's private plane, the National News Agency reported

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Making theater out of historical tragedy

Making theater out of historical tragedy is a difficult balancing act. Too much focus on a small-scale human story can belittle terrible acts of war or genocide taking place in the background, making them seem merely metaphorical exteriorizations of the characters' stormy inner lives. The vast genre of slushy WWII dramas manifests this peril [...] Full story

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Facing Al-Qaeda in the Maghreb threat
By James Badcock

They know it in Paris, Rome and Madrid. There is a big security hole to the south of Europe, the existence of which is confirmed by ongoing hostage crises involving citizens from France, Italy and Spain. The hostages are being held by Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), which has celebrated its third anniversary with a wave of kidnappings [...] Continue reading

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By Jean-Pierre Lehmann

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By David Newman

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By Nina Khrushcheva

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Sluggish NSSF system forces citizens to wait without end for urgent services

The National Social Security Fund (NSSF) remains teetering on the edge of collapse and a major strain on the country's private and public coffers. The need for immediate reform of the NSSF is an issue of life or death for many, particularly the chronically ill and the elderly. Reforming the NSSF has been a governmental priority for years, but the institutional rot has continued [...] Full story

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US Supreme Court in the eye of the storm
By Chibli Mallat

When the Supreme Court's decision Buckley v. Valeo invalidated in 1976 the first serious post-Watergate attempt to regulate campaign finance, the New York Times did not even mention the case. This week's decision, Citizens United v. FEC, which invalidates a three-decade effort to limit the impact of money on politics, took two-thirds of the paper's front page. [...] Continue reading

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James Rowles

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Chibli Mallat

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Joel Zinberg

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George Saad

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Bank Employees' Union celebrates new executive committee at Padova Hotel

Members of the Bank Employees' Union had a good old knees-up at the Padova Hotel on February 2 after the election of their new executive committee. Among the hundreds who turned out for the cocktail reception were Sama Ghanim, Salim Ashkar, Joseph Shammas and Ghassan Saliby [...] Full story

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