According to Beirut.con article, On May 8, Fransabank launched the 9th edition of its JABAL exhibition at Hotel Le Gray to great success, with 18 of the 25 artists having sold their artwork during the launching event alone. But one artist’s work – which appears in JABAL’s official catalogue – never made it to the actual [...]
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Art censorship
Posted by Michel on May 16th, 2013
Posted in Cultural, Human Rights 
Tags: Fransabank, hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah, michel aoun, saad hariri, samir geagea, The Creation of Adam 
No Comments »Dictateur” ‘s owner assaults clients for protesting breach of smoking ban
Posted by Michel on February 15th, 2013
I received the following and would like to share with you. On February 14, what began as a fun Valentine’s night for Dalal Mawad at Dictateur in Gemmayze took a turn for the worse. Dalal was doing her job as a responsible citizen by complaining about indoor smoking at the pub, but the manager was [...]
Posted in Human Rights, Opinion Tags: Dalal Mawad, Dictateur lebanon, somking ban lebanon No Comments »Lebanese Mufti issues a fatwa against civil marriage
Posted by Michel on January 29th, 2013
Lebanon’s top Sunni Muslim authority, Grand Mufti Sheikh Mohammed Rashid Qabbani issued the fatwa branding as an apostate any Muslim politician who approves civil marriage legislation. “Any Muslim with legal or executive authority in Lebanon who supports the legalisation of civil marriage is an apostate and outside the religion of Islam,” he said on the website [...]
Posted in Human Rights, Social Tags: civil marriage, lebanon civil marriage, lebanon mufti, mufti mohammed qabbani 2 Comments »Syrian Orthodox and Catholics appeal for aid in Hassake
Posted by Michel on January 17th, 2013
Source: Fides Hassake (Agenzia Fides) – Hassake, the capital of Mesopotamia (Eastern Syria), is a ghost town, isolated from the rest of the world. The population is suffering from the cold weather, there is no fuel, water is scarce, there is only one hour of electricity a day. Over 25 thousand Christians (Syrian Orthodoxs, Syrian [...]
Lebanon and Internet Privacy
Posted by Michel on December 10th, 2012
“This leaked request asks the Ministry of Information to turn over the contents of all ‘DATA Sessions,’ Meaning the Data sessions of all 3G and 2G data subscribers in Lebanon. These include log files. The log files detail access to Internet websites and IP addresses. Aside from the log files, the requests ask for usernames, [...]
Posted in Crime, Human Rights, Social Tags: internet privacy, ISF, Lebanon internet, SMS privacy, Wissam al-Hassan 2 Comments »The National Campaign to prosecute Lebanese civil war criminals
Posted by Michel on September 11th, 2012
Nayfeh Najjar, Martyr of humanity, in a country where its killers are the rulers with no compassion. They kidnapped her only son on al-Baribir Checkpoint. He was 13 years old back then. She wrote to him 4 letters and were published in al-Saffir newspapers where she worked. She waited for the return of her son [...]
What about them and their families?
Posted by Michel on August 31st, 2012
Despite pledges from politicians, parties and governments, the families of the estimated 17,000 who “disappeared” during and after Lebanon’s 1975-1990 civil war continue to wait for information on the fate of their loves ones. In addition, during the war, thousands of Lebanese were arbitrary arrested and abducted by the Syrian military and intelligence forces or [...]
La ville des adieux
Posted by Michel on August 23rd, 2012
Cette lettre est écrite par Père Georges SABE, responsible of the Frère Maristes community in Aleppo, Syria. He sent it to a friend of mine who asked me to share it with you. C’est la première heure du dimanche 12 août 2012. Le courant électrique vient d’être rétabli. Je me réveille ou à vrai dire je saute [...]
Posted in Human Rights, Religious Tags: alep, Frere Mariste syria, Halab, pere Georges SABE, Syria No Comments »Anal Exam To Charge Men With Homosexuality?
Posted by Michel on August 10th, 2012
I felt so disgusted when I heard this news a week ago. I still feel embarrassed and ashamed to be part of a society that accepts the use such methods. Lebanese police called on doctors to conduct anal exams on 36 men arrested in police raid in a porn cinema in Beirut. The person who instigated such [...]
Posted in Human Rights, Opinion Tags: cinema plaza, gay arrested, lebanese gay, lebanon homoosexual, lebanon police 3 Comments »Kif? The fall of the Syrian regime is the fall of democracy?
Posted by Michel on July 26th, 2012
In his interview with L’orient Le Jour, Michel Aoun said: “if the Syrian regime were to fall, there would be no winner. It would be the downfall of democracy, and Christians would be the first victims”. I thought i saw it all from Lebanese politicians but they always manage to catch me off guard. Aoun [...]
Posted in Human Rights, Opinion, Political Tags: baath regime, democracy syria, michel aoun, Qusayr village, Syria, syrian christians No Comments »
