UN clears cluster bombs from areas of south Lebanon
June 2008: AFP.
Photo: Qana Memorial, Southern Lebanon.
Tyre, Lebanon (AFP): Almost half of the areas in southern Lebanon contaminated with cluster bombs dropped by Israel in 2006 have been cleared, a UN official said on Wednesday.
“Forty three percent of the areas affected by the cluster bombs dropped during the July 2006 war have been cleared”, UN [...]
Lebanon: Call for Agricultural Revival
Broadcasts from Beirut VII: Rami Zuraky professor, activist in Beirut: Land and People.
Photo: Shattered glass in south Lebanon.
A Tadamon! interview project aiming to highlight progressive voices from the ground in Lebanon on the ongoing conflict, voices independent from major political parties…
May 2008 saw political turmoil in Lebanon reach its most violent peak since the [...]
Photo Essay: Beirut Streets. May 2008
Photo essay from Carole Kerbage.
Beirut May 10th 2008: Barbour district Beirut witnessed harsh armed battles.
Photo Essay: Beirut walls speak the language of the past
Photo Essay from Farah Kobaissy in Beirut.
Graffiti for Future Movement, founded by the assassinated Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
In May 2008 the streets in Beirut and throughout Lebanon witnessed military clashes between armed forces backing the Lebanese opposition lead by Hezbollah and the former Lebanese government supported by Saudi Arabia and the U.S. In May the [...]
Writing toward a common ground in Palestine
Egyptian author Ahdaf Soueif discusses her work in advance of her upcoming Beirut lecture…
Daily Star. by Laura Wilkinson. Friday, May 23, 2008
Giant sculptures of keys, 21,915 black balloons and wailing sirens - so far, commemorations of the 60th anniversary of the Nakba (the Palestinian Catastrophe) have unfolded across the region in the form of protest, [...]
Lebanon: Doha Deal | Sectarianism
Broadcasts from Beirut VI: Nada Bakri reporter with the New York Times.
Photo: Beirut from above.
A Tadamon! interview project aiming to highlight progressive voices from the ground in Lebanon on the ongoing conflict, voices independent from major political parties…
An interview with Nada Bakri, a correspondent for the New York Times in Lebanon, who comments on the [...]
Doha Agreement | Economic Crisis
Broadcasts from Beirut V: An interview with Professor Karim Makdisi.
Photo: Krystel Kfoury, Beirut from a distance.
A Tadamon! interview project aiming to highlight progressive voices from the ground in Lebanon on the ongoing conflict, voices independent from major political parties…
Lebanon: Qatar Negotiations | U.S. on Hezbollah
Broadcasts from Beirut IV: An interview with journalist Anthony Shadid.
Photo: Lebanese soldiers patrol Beirut.
A Tadamon! interview project aiming to highlight progressive voices from the ground in Lebanon on the ongoing conflict, voices independent from major political parties…
Movie addresses Israel’s role in Sabra-Shatila massacre
Agence France Presse (AFP). Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Photo: Stefan Christoff. Shatila refugee camp in Beirut.
Lebanon: Reporter reflections from Beirut
Lebanon’s government cancels measure against Hezbollah.
Interview with Raed Rafei, a Lebanese reporter working with the Los Angeles Times.
Broadcasts from Beirut III: A Tadamon! interview project aiming to highlight progressive voices from the ground in Lebanon on the ongoing conflict, voices independent from major political parties…
Lebanon: Currents of Conflict
An interview with Bilal Elamine in Beirut, Lebanon.
Photo: Al-Akbar, youth protests in Beirut.
Conflict in Lebanon has spread in the past week beyond Beirut, to mountain areas above the capital city, to Tripoli in Northern Lebanon. Throughout Lebanon a tense political stand-off remains between the U.S.-backed government lead-by Prime Minister Fouad Siniora and a political opposition [...]
Lebanon: Political, sectarian crisis entrenched
Beirut, 12 May 2008. IRIN Middle East.
Photo: Al-Akbar.
Hezbollah and its allies may have achieved a swift military victory in Beirut and the Druze mountains, but the political battle for Lebanon will be tougher and the consequences long-term, say analysts.
Lebanon: Beirut in Crisis
Interview with activist and publisher Samah Idriss in Beirut, Lebanon.
Photo: Lebanese gunman in Beirut.
Graphing the ever-mutable image of Lebanon’s Civil War
Jim Quilty. Daily Star. Saturday, April 19, 2008
Photo: Nadim Asfar. Beirut.
BEIRUT: In the wake of the summer 2006 war, Beirutis were witness to a curious contest. All over town red-and-white billboards, in Arabic, French or English announced “I Love Life.”
Appearing early in the political wrangle that has riven Lebanon’s citizens into two camps, the ad [...]
Lebanon: Political Crisis Set to Worsen
IPS. March, 12th. Analysis by Rebecca Murray
Photo: Opposition protests in Beirut.
Tyre, Lebanon — Soon after the U.S. destroyer USS Cole was deployed off Lebanon’s shore Feb. 28 to “preserve political stability”, a group of young men gathered around in the embattled agricultural town Qana in south Lebanon, and voiced their fears.