Michel Touma 2024-09-16 13:55 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The strategy of gradual encroachment, aimed at progressively undermining, step by step, the various mechanisms of the State and the country's politico-communal framework… This is the unapologetic and ongoing approach adopted by Hezbollah. The Maronite Patriarch, Cardinal Bechara Rai, succinctly captured this reality in his Sunday sermon ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-16 13:26 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
In a flurry of escalating tensions along the Israeli-Lebanese border, Israeli artillery strikes continue on Monday. An Israeli air raid on the town of Houla Monday afternoon killed one Hezbollah combatant and injured two. Israeli artillery had targeted the town of Aita al-Shaab with three heavy shells on Monday morning. It launched three ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-16 13:05 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
MP Alain Aoun raised concerns that the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) has evolved into a personal venture, with little space left for those not aligned with Gebran Bassil. In an interview with Al-Jadeed on Sunday, Aoun stated, "I have weathered significant challenges over the past seven months, maintaining a deliberate media silence in the hope of ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-16 12:07 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The Contract Professors Committee at the Lebanese University (LU) has announced “a general and open strike starting on the first day of the academic year 2024-2025” until its demands are finally approved by the Council of Ministers. In a press release issued on Monday, the LU contract workers said that their decision to strike was made ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-15 14:50 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Elias Khoury, the esteemed Lebanese writer, novelist and critic, passed away on Sunday at the age of 76. Born in Beirut on July 12, 1948, Khoury was celebrated internationally for his prolific body of work, which includes nearly ten novels, translated into multiple languages, and a significant corpus of literary criticism. In addition to his ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-15 14:13 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Maronite Patriarch Bechara Rai declared on Sunday that "Lebanon's survival depends on reversing the downward trajectory that the country is experiencing." He emphasized that this requires "the election of a president of the Republic who would restore the essence of national partnership," using the State of Greater Lebanon as a starting point and ...
2024-09-15 13:05 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Ali Hamiye, the caretaker Minister of Public Works and Transport, has urged residents and citizens not to dump waste into storm drains. In a tweet on his X account, he announced that "the work of paving and cleaning rainwater drains is ongoing and continuous on various highways across all Lebanese regions, from Beirut, south and north, to Mount ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-15 10:58 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The wave of resignations within the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) has now reached Amin al-Khoury, the party's coordinator in the United Kingdom. Khoury resigned from the FPM’s organizational framework on Sunday. In his resignation statement, Khoury criticized FPM leader Gebran Bassil, stating that he had failed to manage the party's internal ...
2024-09-14 18:21 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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The Lebanese Forces (LF) and the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) both called, on Saturday, on private and public schools and technical institutes not to register Syrian migrants in an irregular situation for the academic year 2024-2025. The controversy surrounding this case comes a day after the Ministry of Education issued a circular authorizing ...
Maurice Matta 2024-09-14 16:22 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati continues to refuse to issue a decree to appoint a new board of directors for the Compensation Fund, despite repeated calls from the teachers' union. The union believes this decree would enable the Fund to start over, allowing for a financial rescue plan to protect teachers' compensations and gradually ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-14 15:30 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Lebanon's private teachers' union has set September 18 as the date for a meeting during which a final decision will be made concerning the steps leading to a general mobilization after the government failed, in their view, to address their demands. This decision, accompanied by recommendations, will be submitted to the general assemblies to be ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-14 15:25 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
For the 42nd commemoration of Bachir Gemayel's assassination on September 14, 1982, a mass in his honor was celebrated on Saturday at Saint Michael Church in Bickfaya. In Beirut, in front of the Kataeb house in Ashrafieh, party members paid tribute to their former leader, killed in a bomb attack. In attendance were his son, MP Nadim Gemayel, and ...