Alissar Boulos 2024-05-10 19:02 - Reading : less than a minute
Good evening and welcome to The Intelligent Recap. It’s Friday, May 10th, and the 217th day of the war in Gaza. In tonight’s episode: The staggering cost Lebanon is paying for the war, and the controversy surrounding the EU grant to Lebanon. Also, May 4th marked the 145th month since the Beirut Port explosion. In international news: The ...
2024-05-10 18:09 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
The European Union (EU) seems to be on the defensive, especially since the uproar caused by the announcement last Thursday of a one-billion-euro aid package to help Lebanon put up with the burden of Syrian migrants. In a second attempt (the first being yesterday, May 9, on the occasion of Europe Day) to justify the granting of this sum over a ...
2024-05-10 14:11 - Reading : less than a minute
The Supreme Islamic Shiite Council filed a criminal complaint on Friday against comedian Shaden Fakih because of a video clip that was widely shared on social media on Wednesday, in which she jested about Islamic and Christian prayer rituals. Th charges, which were pressed by attorney Prof. Ali Fayez Rahal, came in accordance with provisions of ...
2024-05-10 12:09 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
General Security Director-General, Major General Elias Bayssari, announced that he is preparing a comprehensive study on the Syrian migrants’ file, “which will be detailed and presented at the conference devoted to address this issue, in Brussels next month.” In an interview with Al-Joumhouriya, Bayssari revealed that he “is in the ...
2024-05-10 11:11 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Tensions intensified on the Lebanese-Israeli border on Friday. Two civilians were killed in an Israeli drone strike near a phone transmission station in Tayr Harfa. The victims were Ghaleb Hussein al-Hajj, head of the Civil Defense paramedical staff of the Islamic Mission Scouts, and Youssef Fadi Jalloul, a technician with Powertech, the ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-09 23:43 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea has announced plans for a protest sit-in in Brussels on May 27, simultaneously with the international conference on Syria. During a televised interview on Thursday evening, Geagea criticized “the weakness of Lebanese authorities, particularly successive governments,” in managing the issue of the Syrian ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-09 22:42 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Sandra De Waele, Ambassador of the European Union (EU) to Lebanon, said on Thursday that the €1 billion package announced by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is intended "to support Lebanon" until 2027. Speaking on Europe Day, De Waele elaborated on the purported aims of this financial support, which she said should "support ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-09 21:49 - Reading : less than a minute
Josephine Abi Ghosn, the Lebanese Ministry of Tourism's ambassador for religious tourism, received the Arab Union for Tourism Media Award for the best tourism documentary film in the Arab world. The award ceremony for her winning documentary, Visit the Pathways of Jbeil on Holy Thursday, coincided with the Arabian Travel Market 2024 in Dubai, ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-09 20:50 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
On Thursday, MPs of the Strong Republic Bloc (Lebanese Forces) presented a memorandum to the representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Beirut, emphasizing that "Lebanon is not a country of asylum, but a transit country," citing the massive Syrian presence in Lebanon. During a meeting with the UNHCR ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-09 20:37 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
In a country that prides itself on being high on democracy, freedom of expression has never been so suppressed. Thursday, comedian Shaden Fakih, from awk.word comedy club, was the target of religious authorities. Acting on instructions from the Grand Mufti, Sheikh Abdellatif Derian, Dar al-Fatwa filed a complaint against the comedian for ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-09 20:12 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
A closed meeting, organized by the Maronite Center for Research and Documentation, and focusing on the illegal Syrian presence in Lebanon, was chaired on Thursday by Maronite Patriarch Bechara Rai in Bkerke. The meeting was attended by the caretaker Minister of Interior, Bassam Mawlawi, representing caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati, the ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-09 18:52 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Judge Tanios Saghbini, Public Prosecutor at the Court of Appeal in Mount Lebanon, has initiated proceedings against twelve individuals - five of whom have already been arrested – on charges of involvement in the TikTok pedophile network. These include Georges Moubayyed, a hairdresser who has already been apprehended, and Paul Meouchi, owner of a ...