Beirut- Lebanese President Michel Suleiman called his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad and the two agreed to meet on the sidelines of the Union of the Mediterranean summit that opens on Sunday in Paris, an official said on Wednesday.
Graphic design is a booming industry across the world and the Middle East is no exception. But what exactly is graphic design? As Natalie Fallaha, a graphic-design professor at the Lebanese American University (LAU) explains, "Tagged as 'commercial art' since
A Lebanese man serving a long jail term in Denmark was able to escape with the help of a crowd taking part in his mother's funeral, which he had been given leave to attend, police said Wednesday. Hassan Mohammed al-Souki,
Iran has called on the United Nations to exert strong pressure on the Israeli government to release four Iranian citizens who were abducted in Lebanon during the 1975-1990 Civil War, Iranian newspapers reported on Wednesday. In a letter to UN
Maronite Patriarch Nasrallah Butros Sfeir said Lebanon was "in need of its friends" during the third stop on his tour of Australia Wednesday. "Lebanon is in need of its friends, and among them Australia, in order to promote democracy, sovereignty,
Hizbullah now has three times more rockets than it had when Israel went to war with Lebanon two years ago, Israeli public radio cited intelligence officials as telling a cabinet meeting on Wednesday. Members of the inner security cabinet were
Sharp differences emerged within the March 14 bloc over the distribution of cabinet shares on Wednesday, as Progressive Socialist Party (PSP) leader MP Walid Jumblatt insisted that his bloc had the right to more cabinet seats than the Lebanese Forces
Former Interior Minister and leader of the Marada Movement Sleiman Franjieh called on the Lebanese Army Wednesday to fulfill its duty in calming the violence raging in Tripoli, and "not to remain still or neutral." Franjieh also said that nominating
Beirut celebrated the spirit of education over the weekend with the graduation ceremonies of two prominent institutions in the capital. Haigazian University honored 157 students on Friday, while City International School celebrated its fifth commencement ceremony on Saturday.
Peace is spreading in the Middle East - at least it is through art. ArabAd, a regional monthly communications and business magazine based in Beirut, launched its first poster design contest this year with the theme of the competition centered
A visiting French scientist said it is unlikely that a high-magnitude earthquake will hit Lebanon soon, despite recent media reports to the contrary. Paul Tapponnier, professor of geophysics and director of the tectonics laboratory at Paris' Institut de Physique du
The garbage-strewn sands of Ramlat al-Baida coupled with a brilliant sunset over the Mediterranean were the perfect setting to highlight the contrast between the way things are and how they could be. Here, at around dusk Tuesday, activists and volunteers
Four people were killed and dozens wounded in street battles between rival sectarian camps armed with rockets, sniper rifles and grenades in the North Lebanese city of Tripoli on Wednesday. Fighting raged on a main road separating the areas of
The Embassy of Italy in Beirut and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) inaugurated on Wednesday the new municipal olive oil mill in the town Bakiffa, near Rashayya, in the presence of representatives from the of the Council for Development
The Syrian government decided on Wednesday to exempt all Lebanese and other Arabs leaving the country from paying exit fees, local media outlets said. Following appeals from Lebanese officials, the Syrian Cabinet said it had reversed an earlier decision to
Tripoli - Clashes raged in Lebanon's northern capital Wednesday between minority and majority supporters , killing at least four people and wounding 53, according to police and hospital records.
Beirut - The focus will again be the formation of the government. After meeting with the president , Prime Minister -Designate Fouad Siniora said Tuesday that the government formation could take few more days, but refused to specify a date,
Eleven academics presented draft papers on the role of the military in Middle Eastern countries at a conference held by the Carnegie Middle East Center this week. Monday's workshop, entitled "The Military and State in the Middle East: Political, Economic,
