12/09 10:30 - Lecture : 6 minute(s)
Syria Iran Ukraine United States Israel Palestine
This month brings world leaders together to mark the annual opening of the United Nations General Assembly. Their formal speeches in front of the assembly vary in interest, as many contain more pious platitudes than meaty information. The real work of interest often happens behind-the-scenes, as world leaders meet bilaterally or in small groups ...
16/09 16:00 - Lecture : 5 minute(s)
Lebanon Hezbollah Lebanese Army Israel United States
The Lebanese government has yet to fully grasp the seismic shift in Israel’s defense doctrine from containment to preemption. Hezbollah, even if armed with rudimentary weapons like slingshots, will not be tolerated. Beirut must disarm and disband the Iran-backed militia immediately and will be given one final chance to do so. This is the Easy ...
12/09 09:00 - Lecture : 3 minute(s)
Lebanon United States Hezbollah Israel
During a recent visit to Beirut, Senator Lindsey Graham emphasized Lebanon’s unique role as a beacon of coexistence and resilience, driven by its diverse religious and ethnic communities. He proposed a robust defense agreement between the United States and Lebanon, positioning it as a strategic avenue for enhancing regional stability and ...
19/09 11:10 - Lecture : 2 minute(s)
Hassan Nasrallah Hezbollah Lebanon Raoucheh
The Raouche Rock crisis has no real bearing on Lebanon’s political life. Yet, it does reveal the deep divide in how political figures are perceived: either as sacred icons or as demons. Hezbollah’s fabricated controversy over projecting the images of Hassan Nasrallah and Hashem Safieddine on the rock to mark their assassination is nothing more ...
11/07 19:45 - Lecture : 5 minute(s)
Lebanon Banks Banque du Liban Economy
At midnight between Monday and Tuesday, June 9, the terms of the four vice governors of the Central Bank of Lebanon (BDL) expired: Wassim Mansouri, Bachir Yaqzan, Salim Chahine, and Alexander Mouradian, along with the mandate of the president and members of the Banking Control Commission and three members appointed as experts to the Capital ...
09:00 - Lecture : 4 minute(s)
Hezbollah Hamas Iran Israel United States Lebanon
The paradoxes of the Islamic summit are blatant and quite equivocal. One wonders what elicited this mobilization after two years of apathy and diplomatic inaction. An early summit could have spared Gaza and its population the tragedies brought about by the apocalyptic vision of Hamas, the cynicism of its handlers and leaders and their ruinous ...
17/09 18:00 - Lecture : 4 minute(s)
Addiction Psychoanalysis Void Cry Despair Drug
What if addiction is not simply an excess, but a silent call to fill an absence? From a psychoanalytic standpoint, dependence expresses the language of a body left without symbolic support. Psychoanalysis examines the unconscious roots of addiction, its connection to trauma, and its ties to the maternal bond. Addiction can be understood as a way ...
18/09 11:00 - Lecture : 6 minute(s)
Lebanon Syria Israel Peace United States Donald Trump Hezbollah
For decades, Israel and Lebanon have lived under a paradox: perpetual hostility punctuated by temporary ceasefires. The 1949 Armistice created quiet without peace until the Lebanese state allowed the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) to operate from its south in 1969. That decision transformed southern Lebanon into a launchpad for attacks on ...
14/09 08:00 - Lecture : 6 minute(s)
At the end of August, in a Lebanon beset by crisis, Maronite Patriarch Cardinal Bechara Rai stood once more before the altar to renew the nation’s consecration to the Heart of Mary. First Lady Nehmat Aoun joined the faithful in this solemn act, a gesture first made in 2012 during Pope Benedict XVI’s Synod on the Middle East, and again in 2017 ...
20/09 13:30 - Lecture : 2 minute(s)
Hezbollah Joseph Aoun Lebanon Saudi Arabia Yazid bin Farhan
Saudi envoy Yazid bin Farhan’s visit to Beirut coincided with a call by Hezbollah’s Secretary-General Naim Qassem for dialogue with Saudi Arabia. Political sources said the overlap was coincidental. The Saudi envoy offered no reaction, suggesting Riyadh merely took note of the statement. According to the same sources, bin Farhan’s meeting ...
16/09 15:00 - Lecture : 5 minute(s)
Donald Trump Volodymyr Zelensky Ukraine United Kingdom United States
This Tuesday, London is preparing to welcome Donald Trump for his second state visit; an unprecedented honor for a US president and, more broadly, for a non-royal head of state. By accepting a fresh invitation from the Crown, a privilege exceedingly rare in the history of international relations, the American president is receiving what he likely ...
14/07 11:15 - Lecture : 4 minute(s)
Lebanon Syria Islamist Hezbollah
The issue of Syrian prisoners in Lebanon has resurfaced, alongside that of Islamist detainees, many of whom have been held for years without trial or clear charges. This tragic reality highlights a blatant pattern of ongoing political and judicial injustice, where hundreds of individuals are denied their most basic legal and human rights under ...
06/08 15:50 - Lecture : 4 minute(s)
Lebanon Israel Hezbollah Joseph Aoun
Yesterday, an exceptional Cabinet session was held at the Baabda Presidential Palace, lasting nearly six hours and marking a major political turning point in Lebanon’s modern history. Under the presidency of the Head of State, General Joseph Aoun, the government adopted a bold and unprecedented decision: to set a deadline for the disarmament ...
2024-07-25 12:05 - Lecture : 6 minute(s)
Last Friday morning, the world was hit by one of the most significant IT blackouts in history. Thousands of Windows machines failed to boot up or reboot, disrupting banks, airlines, TV broadcasters, healthcare companies, major retailers, and numerous other businesses globally. While the cause of the outage is known and efforts to restore ...
13/09 11:00 - Lecture : 5 minute(s)
Mar Méma, or Saint Mammes, was a young Cappadocian who suffered martyrdom at 16 years old in the city of Caesarea in 274. Several churches and monasteries in Lebanon have been dedicated to him, and some villages still bear his name, including Mar Méma in the Batroun mountains and Deir Mimas in the district of Marjayoun. Among the churches, ...
2024-12-28 16:50 - Lecture : 4 minute(s)
One might think that Hezbollah has a short memory. But no. It resorts to manipulation and counts on the very short memory of certain Lebanese who still see it as a protective shield because they do not want to – or dare not – face reality. They refuse to admit that if part of Lebanon is destroyed and if the Israeli army is present in certain ...