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 [...]

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 [...]

Call to support the first major student union in Quebec or Canada to back
the international campaign for boycott, divestment and sanctions on Israel…

Montreal May 2008: Across the world grassroots movements struggling in opposition to Israeli apartheid are marking the 60th year of the Palestinian Nakba (”catastrophe”) – 60 years of dispossession, ethnic cleansing and [...]

Photo essay from Carole Kerbage.

Beirut May 10th 2008: Barbour district Beirut witnessed harsh armed battles.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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…

rabble.ca by Raja G. Khouri. May 19th, 2008.

Photo: Lebanese woman admits Israeli military destruction in south Lebanon 2006.
A cluster bomb dropped on Centre Block on Parliament Hill could also reach in its spread the East Block, Senate, Supreme Court, Sparks Street pedestrian mall, Ottawa Visitors Center, and parts of the Wellington and Metcalfe thoroughfares. Such [...]

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…

Agence France Presse (AFP). Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Photo: Stefan Christoff. Shatila refugee camp in Beirut.

Daily Star. Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

Photo: Mary Ellen Davis. Nahr al-Bared refugee camp in ruins.

BEIRUT: Palestinian refugees across Lebanon staged rallies on Tuesday to mark the first anniversary of the conflict at the Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp during which they stressed the need to reconstruct the camp and realize their right to return to [...]

Tuesday, May 15th. Agence France Presse (AFP)

Photo: Palestinian youth flash victory sign in southern Lebanon.

Marwahin: Hundreds of Palestinian refugees headed to Lebanon’s southern border with Israel on Wednesday marking 60 years since the creation of the Jewish state and exile from what was once Palestine. “We want to return to our country. We desperately miss [...]

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…

Media Advisory: Cluster Munition Coalition. Photo: Emilia.

Over 100 government gather in Dublin to seal global ban on cluster bombs.

Dublin Conference on Cluster Munitions: The final negotiations of the Oslo Process to ban the use, production, transfer and stockpiling of cluster bombs worldwide and ensure support for affected communities including clearance of contaminated land.

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 [...]