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On Monday, January 25, Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409 crashed en route from Beirut to Addis Ababa. According to reports 54 Lebanese, 22 Ethiopians, one Iraqi, one French woman (the wife of France’s ambassador to Lebanon), one Syrian and seven crew members (as well as two British-Lebanese, one Canadian-Lebanese, and one Russian-Lebanese dual nationals) were on board the [...]

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Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri has again ignited controversy in Lebanon. Having already stirred the pot with a proposal to establish a committee on deconfessionalization, Berri is now pushing to lower Lebanon’s voting age from 21 to 18. The Controversy Of course, the controversy relates to the proposal’s implications for Lebanon’s delicate sectarian balance. According to [...]

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2009 was a mixed year for Lebanon. Here’s a (very) brief recap: Politics Politically, the country averted a repeat of May 2008′s armed clashes, held free and fair elections, and continued to walk the tightrope between East and West. At the regional level, detente between the U.S., conservative Arab, and Israeli camp and a front consisting of [...]

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