This Is Beirut 2024-07-22 17:36 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The Saydet al-Jabal Gathering said that to initiate change, “opposition MPs must take concrete steps after (almost) two years of presidential vacuum and stalemate.” The Gathering deplored the fact that opposition MPs had so far been content to “describe reality by only voicing objections.” In a press release issued on Monday at the end ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-22 16:09 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Opposition MPs Georges Okais, Marc Daou, Ashraf Rifi and Salim al-Sayegh submitted a petition on Monday to Speaker Nabih Berri, calling for a debate on the ongoing war and its repercussions on Lebanon. In a press conference held at Parliament, MP Salim al-Sayegh highlighted that since October 8, escalating threats have caused hundreds of Lebanese ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-21 17:30 - Reading : less than a minute
The “Judges' Club” in Lebanon filed a handrail with the Court of Cassation, demanding that “a serious, transparent and swift investigation be opened into rumors of sexual harassment targeting a number of female judges.” According to information obtained by This is Beirut and Houna Loubnan from informed sources, the “Judges' Club,” ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-21 15:19 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
AFP photographer Christina Assi, who was seriously injured reporting from Lebanon in October 2023, carried the Olympic flame on Sunday, accompanied by video journalist Dylan Collins, in tribute “to all the journalists, our colleagues and friends killed this year”, she explained. "It's incredible and heart-warming to see all these people ...
Allan Branger 2024-07-21 14:43 - Reading : less than a minute
A group of Lebanese skateboarders gather daily in Mohamad Bahaa Chatah Square, Beirut, to practice their passion. Although this has become their favorite spot, it also highlights the lack of skateboarding facilities in the capital.
This Is Beirut 2024-07-21 14:31 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Maronite Patriarch Bechara Rai asserted, “Lebanon is a land of holiness, unity, and fraternity among its citizens, not a land of wars, conflicts, killings, destruction, and displacement.” The patriarch urged the Lebanese to strive to protect and preserve this land of holiness and prayer. In his weekly homily, delivered on Sunday in Annaya, ...
Fady Noun 2024-07-21 10:23 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Is Lebanon's Fate Truly Tragic? Not Necessarily. Certainly battered by history, but condemned? Not if the Lebanese people recognize their role in the current disorder. From the early days of this noble national vocation, initiated by Patriarch Howayek during negotiations with the Third French Republic, he criticized the clientelism and favoritism ...
2024-07-21 10:08 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
Estephanos Doueihi, the fifty-seventh Maronite patriarch to hold the seat of Antioch since its founder Saint John Maron, was a distinguished epigraphist, archaeologist, musicologist, and philologist. As a reformer of the Church and guardian of its heritage in the 17th century, he earned the title of Father of History and Preeminent Patriarch, ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-20 17:46 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The Lebanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs has welcomed the advisory opinion issued on July 19 by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) regarding “Israel's colonization policies and practices in the Palestinian territories.” In a statement issued on Saturday, the Ministry recalled that the advisory opinion “confirms the illegality of ...
2024-07-20 16:17 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Opposition circles were puzzled by Hezbollah and Amal Movement MPs postponing the scheduled Friday meeting with opposition MPs to discuss ideas for completing the presidential election, without providing reasons for the delay. An opposition MP said: "How can Speaker Nabih Berri and Hezbollah call for dialogue on the presidential election while ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-20 13:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Lebanese Forces (LF) leader Samir Geagea reaffirmed in a statement that “the simplest, safest and most constitutional way to elect a President of the Republic was and remains the immediate and definitive convening of an open session with consecutive sessions”. This came in light of his criticism of Speaker of Parliament Nabih Berri, whom he ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-20 12:50 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The Speaker of Parliament, Nabih Berri, has ruled out the possibility of Israel launching a full-scale war against Lebanon, “a war that could involve several countries in the region”, he said in an interview with the Catholic newspaper "Avvenire". “The situation in the region is very dangerous, and what is happening threatens Europe and ...