Night and The Lilac
A song
The Winter
After weeks of discussions, and after a group of drafts was leaked, the Lebanese government approved last Thursday the "Financial Recovery Plan". As expected, the plan did not come close to correcting the economic imbalance, but it explained the financial and monetary conditions, ...
Memories Industry...
Nuclear minute...
Early elegy...
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Body for Rent...
The yellow breeze
Lesson of the outing...
Little Pot
I am Like a Slave...
The leak of the government's draft plan to tackle the crisis has shocked the public domain. Many attacked it as a financial plan that lacks the economic dimension, and deliberately focuses on the financial dimension of the Lebanese crisis. This constitutes an entry point to re-magnify the ......
The Heart of the Night
So far, the true goal of establishing the "Long Live Egypt" fund, which is completing its sixth year after two months, is not known. A fund from which Sisi spends personally with direct decisions without any consultation, with ambiguities in aspects of spending.....
To my Beloved Ones.....
There is an online image of the deceased President John Kennedy standing in front of the grave of James Forrestal, who was the first Secretary of Defense of the United States. The fate of President Kennedy was no different from the end of Forrestal. The difference lies only in the manner of killing
No one in ancient and modern history may have gained an interest and a positive outlook in the East and West, such as Salahuddin Al Ayyubi. It is well known that he was widely respected in the Christian West, even though he is the military commander who regained - if this political description is...
I am surprised by the elegance of weakness.
Although 89.4% of the Iranian people support the quarantine option for cities where the Corona virus has spread, this consensus, demonstrated by the latest opinion polls, has not been translated into the votes of parliamentarians who rejected, a few days ago, the law to disable the country for a ...
At a time when American officials are discussing ways to reopen the economy without igniting the corona’s outbreak in the country again, the United States today recorded a new toll that is the highest in terms of deaths due to “19” nations.
Oh My Country
Lamentations of the Departed from Andalusia
The Name of Palestine Will Not End
I did not keep the threads of your frayed dress on eons dust, She kept the sound of the remains of fig and grape leaves, And the souls of those who died, Of vineyards.
Although the number of infections with the Corona virus exceeded the threshold of 100,000, Germany remained very far from the death rates reached by its counterparts from Western European countries, such as Spain and Italy, and more recently France. Until the end of the first week of April, .....
With the absence of the ground for the expected OPEC + negotiations tomorrow, Thursday, Donald Trump's options to deal with the repercussions of the "price war" on his country are narrowing, in light of the increasing repercussions of the Corona virus and the effects of the first month of the.......
One of us is leaving The other "one" mourns his loneliness, and he admonishes whoever becomes his lonely.
What do I mean by: What after Corona? The epidemic is exaggerated and exaggerated because it affects the white man unlike malaria and Ebola who have been suffering death in Africa for decades, even death is class, but the class, that social relationship and the inherited ideological state, .....
"There is a ghost hovering around Europe." He is not the specter of communism, as Marx and Engels said in the introduction to the Communist Manifesto in 1848, and if he holds an affiliation card to the Communist Party, it also comes from outside the continent, .....
Palestinian Professor Nadra Shalhoub Kiporkian, a lecturer in law at the Hebrew University, revealed during her lecture at Columbia University in New York last month (February 2019) that the Israeli occupation authorities issued permits for major drug companies to conduct clinical trials and test...
In a gesture of calm on the streak of the deepening Sino-American crisis due to mutual accusations about the Corona virus and the trade war that preceded it, a phone call took place between the Chinese President and his American counterpart yesterday, in which he offered first aid in the face of....
If you bow, you will survive a ready launch, and there is another ready, from the opposite side, if you bow. I did not reach the town except because the news said: You are here, but the fighting was fierce, and I did not find you, you fleeing the garden, naked, on one of the nights of a thousand....
It is true that the decision of the President of the "Immunity to Israel" party, Benny Gantz, to join the bloc of right-wing and ultra-Orthodox parties, led by the outgoing Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and advance negotiations on his joining the government headed by the latter, represented...
The main requirement is to secure a plane for our evacuation. This is the response of the Lebanese students in Italy to the cabinet decision to form a committee to monitor the situation of expatriates abroad.They want nothing but to return to their families,while the government insists on dealing...
"The authority in Lebanon has one jurisdiction: transforming crises into a customer tool. This is what happened in the social emergency plan to face the consequences of "Corona". Instead of providing support to all Lebanese families that do not have a steady and continuous income in light of the....
In front of the sweeping conspiracy whispering in the political mind, searching for and exploring for a clear explanation of the analysis of what is happening in our endemic world, with the emergence of the emerging “Corona” virus, which represents a detailed historical event that shook.....
Corona's controversial threat has revived the Syrian displacement in Lebanon. With the exception of the boredom in bidding campaigns after Syria decided to close the border, no one seems to be taking advantage of the circumstance to put solutions on the table
In the footsteps of travel literature as the carrier eye for those who missed the pleasure of traveling, and with it, and through them, these writers enriched their writing with the memory of mankind and the civilizations it accomplished ... On this footsteps, Hoda Soweid fought in her new “hidden..
Why did you decide to participate in a series called “One Thousand and One Nights” (written by Muhammad Nayer and directed by Raouf Abdel Aziz), even though it was previously presented in the 1970s and 1980s?
David Khairallah was a stubborn advocate of truth, justice and human dignity everywhere. He was a champion of global humanitarian issues, a loud voice in the face of all persecution and usurpation of rights, a fierce fighter against corruption and tyranny, and advocating the rule of law, .....
The financial crisis combined with the spread of Corona, to cause the Lebanese economy to die. To date, the scale of the disaster has not been clarified, but all indications threaten to reach a serious social crisis due to the dismissal of employees and the bankruptcy of companies. However,...
The "panic" of the new spread of the "Corona" virus has dominated the actions of a large part of the citizens of the countries that the virus reached during the past weeks. From "toilet paper". However, the interests of a segment of the Americans have focused recently on supplying "arms and.........
At a time when the spread of the Coronavirus has accelerated, Kristalina Georgieva, Director of the International Monetary Fund, announced that countries affected by the virus will receive support through the rapid financing tool. She asserted, as usual, most Western officials,...
At a time when humanity suffers from the danger of the Corona virus, which - according to the intimidation - is a reminder of the horrors of the Black Plague that killed a third of the population of Europe in the fourteenth century, liberal Lebanese evangelized the Lebanese people, and all humanity,
Saudi Arabia has pushed its military weight to halt the progress of the Yemeni army forces and the people's committees in the Khub and Al-Shughf District east of Al-Jawf Governorate. The Directorate located on the Saudi-Yemeni border covers an area of ​​82% of the total area of ​​Al-Jawf............
The latest studies showed that there are more than 395 species of birds in Lebanon, some of which are migratory and some that are resident. Lebanon is located on the most important paths of bird migration in the world. Every year, during the spring and autumn migration, millions of birds pass over..
Whoever imagines that this door (the door that is mine) is closed:
Twenty academic economic figures in Ireland signed a document calling for the nationalization of banks, noting that the government erred in its error when it decided to adopt the "NAMA" method (the National Asset Management Agency created by the Irish government in late 2009 in order to face the....
The People Are Mature ... A Poem
The new Coronavirus continued its outbreak in the United States, recording 323,516 infections and 9,171 deaths, mostly in New York State, at a time when the US administration is still grappling with the crisis. ...
“The United States will work side by side with the Internal Security Forces to develop and implement a prisoner classification system,” said US Ambassador Elizabeth Richard, addressing the Secretary of State, the discriminatory Attorney General, the Director General of the Internal Security Forces,.
After “Bouh al-Sanabel” (written by Fathallah Omar 2018) and “Faraj and Rahma” (written by Muhammad al-Nabulsi 2019), Syrian director Muhammad Yassin Waqf continues his journey with the “Beirut International Center for Artistic Production” for the third year in a row, and this year will be over.....
The Turkish and Russian parties chose to overcome the large number of differences between them on the basic issues, and to reach a shy agreement that ignores the sensitive points that were the reason for the recent tensions. This makes the agreement a mere truce or "warrior break", pending further..
With fire before the understandings, the Syrian army and its allies established their control along the international route Aleppo - Damascus and secured it east and west. They were also able to completely remove the menace from the city of Aleppo, and chase them to the extreme countryside......
Just before Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan headed to Moscow to meet his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, armed factions with Turkish artillery and missile support launched attacks on several axes in the rural areas of Aleppo and Idlib, apparently in an attempt to achieve gains.
t can no longer be stalled. Banking secrecy must fall today before tomorrow. Every day that passes by means of the survival of one of the most important sources of corruption. Yesterday, the subcommittee's subcommittee took a step forward, but incomplete. It decided to remove banking secrecy from...
Behind the scenes of the game of fire in northern Syria, a set of triple and bilateral encounters has defined the features of the current battle. The basis for what is going on is Damascus’s decision to move towards the liberation of Idlib, in addition to securing the “Damascus-Aleppo”,.............
Sarkis Naoum's new book, "From Mizyara to Washington: When Memory Wakes Up", is one of the most important publications issued by the Lebanese press for years. The importance of the book comes from the author's sincerity in his account of his journalistic career (and political, somewhat, as Kamal,...
It is true that the current president is known for his ups and downs, arrogance, arrogance and sometimes even recklessness, in addition to committing a number of political and diplomatic lapses that made him a source of ridicule and subject to criticism repeatedly, but the political, military,......
Six new HIV infections were registered in the past two days, bringing the total number, until yesterday evening, to ten, one of them in critical condition. Thus, Lebanon has moved from the stage of containing the virus to the stage of limiting its spread, according to the Physicians Syndicate,......
On the night of Valentine's Day, the Lebanese band opened its play "In the Heart: The Love Project" in Beirut, after it presented it last year in Italy. The play, directed by Maya Zbib (Collective Writing), relies on a common approach to play on the vulgar notions of this intense situation,...
Amman Three noons were launched by the Jordanian king, Abdullah II, prior to the official announcement of the American "Deal of the Century": no to harm to Jerusalem, not to an alternative homeland, not to resettlement. Since that time, precisely after the US President Donald Trump recognized,......
Q. What is the ruling on one who prays and does not say the remembrance of prayer nor the adhkaar after the prayer? Q. What are the places and times for answering the invitation, and by saying,O Lord, three times, and saying,O Most Merciful,the Most Merciful three times,is the supplication answered?
The American sociologist has finally returned, in a new book containing colorful charts depicting black lives in America. Accurate statistics that gave African Americans lives were shown in Paris early last century, at a time when ethnic human exhibitions were still common in Europe.....
Wuhan, the capital of China's Hubei Province, is actually three cities: Wuchang, Hankou and Hanyang, which are divided by the Yangtze and Hanging rivers. One day, the city was said that if you wanted to find the happiest people, go to Wuhan, the city that would have been competing with New York,....
This story could have been a scenario for a Hollywood movie, and its summary could be written as: “This film tells the story of the Swiss company Crypto AG, which has sold equipment to encrypt military and diplomatic contacts in most countries of the Western camp, for a period of about 50 years.....
It is too early to talk about mobility, but it is good to say that here he grows up every day and invades the street and changes - on a personal level - my map that defined its streets, its livelihoods, and its protectorates with a new life. The transients became crowds chanting, and the police,....
The "common man" party will head the local authority in Delhi for an additional five years
After months of intense debate, and despite pressure from the Administration of U.S. President Donald Trump, the EUROPEAN Union has agreed to enter Huawei's european 5G market....
The American decision to leave Lebanon collapsing seems to be under implementation. The Saudis joined the same idea. They are more enthusiastic than the Americans, too. And between them, France is in a difficult situation. Neither does it want to confront Washington and Riyadh, nor is it capable....
The power in Algeria has not succeeded in causing a division between Arabs and Berbers The movement rejects parties, and the latter wants to benefit from it to renew itself.
For several years, China has been pursuing a separate currency to ensure its economic sovereignty. After the global financial crisis in 2008, the People's Bank of China signed bilateral currency exchange agreements (“Swap” agreements) with the European Central Bank,...
During his visit to Brussels to attend the NATO meetings, the American Chief of Staff, Mark Millie, reaffirmed the intention of the United States to withdraw from some of its military deployment arenas, such as Africa and the Middle East. The decision to significantly reduce the number of these ....
Yellow leaves cover the roadside. Every friend sheet, every companion paper. All alphabet, their fruits were not borrowed from the time of isolation, because the time of those who fall from the autumn tree is a time when dreams were not dormant, when the eyes wiped the lands near and far,...........
The 2020 budget was discussed and approved in 3 hours. Perhaps it should not have taken longer as it contained only lies and illusions. An estimate of expenditures to which the forces of power have never adhered to it. An estimate of expenditures beyond the limits of any economic logic.........
Some of the discussion on the country's crisis stems from the use of the term "we". They use this to indicate in an adjective that they speak in the name of the Lebanese in general. They say we are Lebanese. They are trying to impose their approach on the debate, and this is a real mistake....
We continue in this week's "Season of Prizes" series with four films, three of which are considered the most important this year, but they did not nominate any prize even though they won many awards in European film festivals, as well as a film competing with the Academy Award for Best Film Jebni...
In Lebanon, as in quite a few countries in the region, there is a massive crowd of politicians and "fellow" citizens towards the United States.
Is America's hostility towards these countries linked to a deep love for democracy, or a deep love for the Western and Israeli occupation and the prevention of any attempt to annoy it?
The psychological and social values ​​of household projects become much more important than what was presented....
Journalist Robert Rabee said in a report published by the American Oil Price that the Middle East currently produces about a third of the world's oil, and that the most important countries exporting to it in the region during 2018 are Saudi Arabia (12.3 million barrels per day),...
From the eighties of the twentieth century until today, the term "emerging powers" is being deliberated to refer to countries in which the conditions of economic, political and institutional readiness are prepared to emerge from the cycle of underdevelopment in the poor South world.
The United States has redoubled its efforts, since the 1980s, during the beginning of the neoliberal expansion during the era of Ronald Reagan, to contain the entire globe, to change the main political concepts considered and used by the global left against the global power of the United States.
"The mask has fallen". A phrase that might apply to what matters in football. "The mask fell", and many faces were exposed. She had previously participated in the "play" of the extraordinary general assembly held to discuss the future of the football season....
There is no end to the crises in the hospital sector. The more the financial and monetary crisis recedes, the greater the problems in hospitals, both private and governmental. And every day there is something new, to warn that the worst is yet to come.
“All hospitals, without exception, are currently using the last of their warehouse equipment and medical supplies. Any device or device that is used today has no alternative insurance guarantees”. This was confirmed by Al-Akhbar, the owner of one of the companies working in this field, contrary to..
health coverage period for those who spend their jobs due to economic conditions for a period of one year instead of three months", with the increase in individual and group exchange for workers and employees......
On October 28, nine days ago, Bill Gates celebrated his 64th birthday. And if you were wondering what would anyone give to a man who owns $ 106.9 billion, an article in The Observer said that he does not care about "the material part of the gift".
Thinker Pino Arlacchi is trying to define a theoretical definition of the mafia system "where the mafia power is based on a state of chaotic rivalry to attain Jah. It represents an excellent tool for social advancement in a capitalist society, where adventure and immoral idleness are the............
Utah Jazz achieved its ninth win after beating Washington Wizards (127-116) in the NBA, while Denver Nuggets scored a remarkable victory over the Los Angeles Clippers (114-104).
Swartz was not an ordinary programmer. Arguably, Internet users around the world are indebted to him forever. What we consider today as intuitive matters on the network did not come from a vacuum, but rather, from the screams of a programmer who defended the rights of users to death.....
Al-Hariri "decided" that his phone would only answer a direct call from Nasrallah calling him to head the government
With 300 pieces of art and antiquities, some of which we see for the first time, Baalbek, the Archives of Eternity, legitimizes and dismantles the city. In the grand hall of the Sarsak Museum (Ashrafieh, Beirut), the exhibition's nine sections form diverse thresholds for entering the City of the....
The waste problem is expected to intensify in the coming years, with World Bank figures and projections suggesting that the world's solid waste production (2 billion tons per day) will increase by about 70 percent by 2050, which will see increased pressure on urban infrastructure. It will be 68 ....
The name "Hashishin" in the west and east was associated with the suicide squad stationed at the Castle of Death above the Dilm Mountains, and they were known to use hashish on the assumption of their leader Hassan al-Sabbah. However, Islamic history books, including medieval Arabic histories, .....
U.S. company Intel announced the acquisition of The Israeli company Habana Labs, which manufactures chips and algorithms for artificial intelligence for $2 billion. Habana Labs was established in Tel AVIV in 2016 by David Dahan, ceo of the company, and Ran Halutz, who serves as vice president ......
Sebastian lived with his partner on the outskirts of Paris for several years. The 30-year-old man's relationship with his partner gradually evolved until they chose to live together in the same apartment.
Rasmi Abu Ali (1937-2020) is not like other Arab writers. A Palestinian exile, with a different temperament in his understanding of the struggle, resistance and the country. He came late to write, but with a heavy load of irony, humor and humor, trying to exfoliate the Palestinian orange from the...
The situation of the sports sector in Lebanon is no different from other sectors in a real crisis, given the difficult circumstances that the country is going through at all levels politically, security and economically dangerous. It seems that some view the subject of sport as a luxury or .........
The philosopher Paul Thomas (author of a classic book on Marx's relationship with anarchists) gave a special course at the University of Berkeley on the concept of utopia in the history of political thought, highlighting that, throughout history, there were two basic arguments for defending ........
In 2007, Satoshi Nakamoto began work on the issuance of a decentralized digital currency that can be easily exchanged between individuals and exchange disinformation, without any authority or intermediary between them, the novel says. The idea was to take power out of the hands of central bank .....
Abderrahmane Qattani (1983) converts the language of recourse to an artistic language. But between the transformation and dialogue is the journey of "brainstorming" – the title of his new exhibition - long, the journey of the a-z, does it become with ......
Saudi Arabia will host the second semi-final of the Spanish Super Cup, which will bring together last season's La Liga champions Barcelona and fourth-placed Atlético Madrid in La Liga (21:00 BST). It is a new experience of its kind, a historical precedent for which Saudi Arabia has spent.......
Iran's success in controlling the U.S. RQ-170 Sentinel drone on December 4, 2011, marked a watershed date and a turning point in Iran's "cyber" trajectory, which has become a concern for the West. Especially the United States and Israel, given Tehran's position in developing its "electronic" .......
Apart from the difficult circumstances in the country, everyone this season is on a date with a wide fan of festive-inspired films that are suitable for the whole family, perhaps introducing some joy and pleasure to the hearts. Here, we review the highlights of the work you can see both in......
In his dissertation, the Swiss academic examines the location and role of The City of Jubail in the local and international context of the late Bronze Orient era, when it was a "communication zone" between the Near East and Egypt. Despite its central role in the regional geopolitical landscape,....
Press reports revealed in early October that Israeli Foreign Minister Yisrael Katz of the Likud party is seeking to sign "aggression" or "no aggression" agreements with some Gulf Arab states as a prelude to future peace agreements with them. "With the support of the Prime Minister,......
The concept of "political clientelism" is adopted to explain how the underdeveloped state functions and to explain its poor performance. Michael Johnson applied this approach in the case of Lebanon, considering that "islamisis is the central phenomenon in lebanese economy, society and politics".....
Those who did not know Chalabi al-Ashkar before 2011 do not realize the extent of the turn in his intellectual and political positions at the beginning of what he saw as the "long-term revolutionary process". The mass popular protests that then swept through many cities in Arab countries,.....
For years, Christian theologians have disagreed with them about providing an artistic depiction of Jesus. The early Christians thought that this was a violation of the second commandment: "Don't make you a sculpture..." (Exit 20:4-6)... Until St. John of Damascene, who was one of the first..........
Parliamentary sources indicated, in her talk to "News", that the charge against Saleh is to violate the constitution and circumvent its articles, specifically Article 76, which stipulates that "the President of the Republic is assigned the candidate of the most numerous parliamentary bloc to form...
With parliament failing so far to pass the new electoral law, the Supreme Religious Authority (Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani) has renewed criticism of the procrastination of parliamentary blocs, repeatedly calling for a "fair and equitable law", restoring "citizens' confidence in the electoral,..........
Power does not need violence because it is legitimate because of the group, but violence always needs non-political tools such as repression, circumvention, and social adaptation for ideological change or oppression. If power shifts to the power of the individual against the group, it loses its....
Saudi Arabia's escalating attack on Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has not deterred the kingdom from continuing to defy the kingdom by insisting on bringing together leaders of Islamic countries in a summit that began in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and was boycotted by Riyadh......
The American scenario is no longer a secret. Yesterday, the United States made it public. The coup d'état, which began with the resignation of The Lebanese Forces Party ministers, the easiest and most committed tool to U.S.-Saudi orders, was followed by the sudden resignation of Prime Minister Saad,