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Bike napping beats kidnapping but who is in charge here – not the police it seems, or?????
A Separate State of Mind | A Blog by Elie Fares
A friend of mine parked his motorcycle yesterday in front of a house he was visiting in my hometown only to hear the engine ignite a few minutes later.
He ran outside and saw a stranger driving his bike away. He frantically tried to chase him but there was no car. He was fortunate enough to have a family member be in Batroun at the time of the theft. That person immediately called the police hotline 112 as he chased the motorcycle driver on the Lebanese highway.
The police informed him that he was not allowed to ram his car into the motorcycle and that he should let them know where he was driving at all times. So he told them when he passed the Mseilha Citadel. He told them when he passed Chekka. He told them when he passed Anfeh.
He kept his phone to his ear and spoke…
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A Separate State of Mind | A Blog by Elie Fares
Back in December, I hosted a photographer who wanted to visit Lebanon in order to experience our on-the-edge diverse lifestyle. I showed him around as much as I could given the short time I had, taking myself to Tyre for the first time in my life. I had never been that far South before. I left him there in order for him to see life in that Southern city firsthand. A couple of days later, we met up in Beirut and somehow he started contrasting and comparing my country with his. He comes from one of the world’s biggest superpowers so it’s understandable that my country is lacking in comparison.
But I couldn’t take it. Snarkiness started to ooze out of every word I uttered like the sharp blade of a knife. Jabs here and there about how his country could never – ever – have the history that my…
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War and revolution are always about more than numbers – individual families, children, grandparents, babies on all sides suffer for???
Medecins Sans Frontieres’ head in Lebanon, Fabio Forgione, gave a presentation entitled “Misery beyond the War Zone: Life for Syrian Refugees and Displaced Population in Lebanon”
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“Visualizing Palestine is the intersection of communication, social sciences, technology, design and urban studies for social justice.
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We risk all for next to nothing
Silent Spring
Silent Spring
(Friday Protestors demanding the return of Military rule. Photo, the Daily News Egypt)
Main Headlines:
Monday
- Morsi uses TV interview to burnish image.
- Salafist Nour Party to run in parliamentary elections.
- Beltagy:Opposition makes farcical demands to postpone elections
- Qandil tells opposition to stop providing cover for “vandals.”
- Stock market drops for a second day as protests continue
- Federation Of Chambers (FCC) “boycotts” Ministry of Supply.
- Three Salafists resign from Islamic umbrella group.
Tuesday
- Opposition NSF to boycott the elections.
- Shura Council to deliberate tax reform draft law within 48 hours.
- Court rules Gaza tunnels threaten national security
- Celebrities, public figures call for elections boycott.
- Five hundred Egyptian factories close as a result of increased Mazut prices.
- Egyptian prosecution opens investigation into air balloon accident.
- Revised economic plan hikes cigarette, iron, cement, alcohol taxes.
- FJP investigate its leader Ali Abdel Fatah after he
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