ELECTRONIC LEBANON
Electronic Lebanon, a project from the Electronic Intifada, offers commentary, analysis, human rights and development information, and voices from on the ground. Quality submissions are welcomed, preferably from contributors with an organisational affiliation.
Hicham Safieddine
29 December 2008
 Like much of the world press, Israel's war on Gaza dominates the headlines in Lebanon. Massive protests in Beirut, particularly at the Egyptian embassy, took place. In an address to the tens of thousands of demonstrators, Hizballah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah called, among other things, for ordinary Egyptians to open up the crossing at the Egypt-Gaza border by force and in defiance of government security forces. Nasrallah's explicit condemnation of the Egyptian regime and the stern response by Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit reflects the long-term impact of the Gaza war on the dynamics of regional alliances playing out in Lebanon. [MORE]
Hicham Safieddine
18 November 2008
 Civil strife usually ends when there is truth and reconciliation. In Lebanon, it subsides when a truce poses as reconciliation. Top Lebanese leaders are doting over each other, calling for a new pact of political rivalry that is confined to the arena of democratic and peaceful confrontation. Meetings between top March 14 and March 8 officials have calmed fears of further clashes on the streets. With the notable exception of Christian leaders, all sectarian heads are trying to unite their ranks in the run up to next year's parliamentary elections. Meet the Lebanese Press is The Electronic Intifada's regular review of what is making the rounds in the Lebanese press and the pundits' take on it. [MORE]
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LIVE FROM LEBANON: DIARIES
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Ray Smith
22 October 2008
 One year has passed since the first Palestinians were allowed to return to the outskirts of the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp, destroyed by the Lebanese army during three months of fighting in the summer of 2007 with Fatah al-Islam, a small Islamist militant group. Meanwhile, up to 15,000 people have resettled in the camp. Ray Smith reports on their situation from Nahr al-Bared. [MORE]
Ray Smith
20 October 2008
 Burj al-Shemali is located at the edge of Tyre and was established in the early 1950s after Zionist forces expelled hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their homeland. Today some 20,000 people live in the quiet, but fenced-in Burj al-Shemali Camp. More than two-thirds of its labor force work at least part-time in agriculture. Ray Smith writes from southern Lebanon. [MORE]
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Report
18 December 2008
 BEIRUT (IRIN) - It was the summer of 1982 when Zahira Najjar, 66, last saw her son Abdallah, then 17 years old. The family was in Bhamdoun, a mountain resort east of Beirut, at the height of Lebanon's 15-year civil war. Only Syrian forces were on the ground when Abdullah went to find transport to the capital to get his wounded leg seen to, Najjar said. She has seen and heard nothing of him since. "I can't describe my feelings. A mother's heart cries blood," Najjar said, pulling a black-and-white photograph of the youth from her wallet.
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Report
5 November 2008
 NAHR AL-BARED (IRIN) - As he picked plastics and paper off the rubble-filled conveyor belt, Issam Sayyed indicated to a white house behind him pock-marked with bullet holes and with its roof caved in. "That's my home," said the father of nine, a Palestinian refugee displaced from the Nahr al-Bared camp in northern Lebanon, which was ruined in a 15-week war last year between the army and Islamist insurgents. [MORE]
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a-films
13 November 2008
 More than a year after their homes were destroyed during the battle between the Lebanese army and the militant Islamist group Fatah al-Islam, the majority of the Palestinian refugees from the Nahr al-Bared camp in northern Lebanon find themselves in a difficult situation. Not able to return to their homes, stuck in pre-fabricated housing units and mostly unemployed, many feel frustrated and hopeless that things will improve. [MORE]
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Podcasts
EI's Nigel Parry on Free Speech Radio News (17 August 2006)
EI discusses "diplomacy" in Lebanon on Flashpoints, Audio, Flashpoints.net (26 July 2006)
EI's Laurie King-Irani on CBC discussing Canada and Lebanon, Audio, CBC (23 July 2006)
EI's Ali Abunimah appears on KPFK discussing Lebanon, Audio, KPFK (20 July 2006)
EI's Ali Abunimah on WBAI 99.5, Audio, "Middle East Exploding!", WBAI, New York City (17 July 2006)
EI's Laurie King on KPFK Pacifica, Audio, Middle East in Focus, KPFK, CA (14 July 2006)
EI on KPFK to discuss Israel's invasion of Lebanon, Audio, KPFK (13 July 2006)
EI's Ali Abunimah speaks about the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, Audio, Flashpoints.net (13 July 2006)
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