Canadian citizen facing deportation in Australia says he is on a hunger strike (The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada News)
MELBOURNE, Australia – A Canadian citizen who has lived in Australia for nearly a decade says he has gone on a hunger strike to protest his imminent deportation to Canada.
Lebanon’s Palestinians: refugees for life (Middle East Online)
Human rights groups warn Palestinian refugee camps could one day explode unless their issue is addressed.
Storm in a teacup (Al-Ahram Weekly)
Dubai World, Dubai’s main investment and holding company, triggered a wave of panic when it announced that it was seeking to defer repayment of up to $59 billion of debt.
Lebanon’s Palestinians: refugees for life (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas’s visit to Beirut on Monday casts the spotlight on the plight of nearly 300,000 Palestinians in Lebanon who fear they are doomed to be refugees for life.
Global Advertising Guru Highlights The Importance Of The Lebanese Market With Second Visit To Beirut (Zawya)
Beirut – Lebanon (6 December, 2009): The growing importance of the Lebanese advertising market was highlighted recently with the second visit to the local TBWA office in Beirut of Mr. Jean-Marie Dru, Chairman of global advertising network TBWA/ Worldwide.
The resistance will go on (Al-Ahram Weekly)
Twenty-four years, two world orders, a civil war, a liberation war, a war of resistance and numerous political developments separate the first political manifesto of Hizbullah — issued in 1985 — and the second issued Monday.
Pollution costs Lebanon 500 million dollars a year (Middle East Online)
Lebanese government to start fund for environmental issues, concrete plans to fight climate change.
Waltz with Bashir : Animation and Memory (Animation World Network)
In 1982, Ari Folman was a soldier in the Israeli Defense Forces on duty in Lebanon, part of the army occupying Israel’s neighbor during that country’s ongoing civil war.
Palestinian leader to visit Lebanon (Sydney Morning Herald)
Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas’s visit to Beirut on Monday casts the spotlight on the plight of nearly 300,000 Palestinians in Lebanon.
Hariri to visit long-time foe Syria (Middle East Online)
Lebanese PM will be visiting Syria after tense ties with Damascus since his father’s assassination.
