If I was the president of the country, I would pull out of the group of Francophone countries, immediately. I have never heard of a more stupid organization to be a part of for a country like Lebanon. We speak Arabic! We are not Francophone!
Apparently, TV5 executives were in Lebanon recently explaining how much TV5 [...]
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El-Francophonieh mitil ijri!
Posted in Culture, tagged Arabic, Francophone, French, Language, Lebanon, Middle East on March 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Time to standardize Lebanese
Posted in Culture, tagged Arabic, Lebanese, Lebanon, Middle East, Sectarianism on January 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I think its time to standardize the Lebanese language. No, not to piss off March 8. I actually think its an important step in our nation’s development. We all identify with our language as that which we express ourselves most comfortably in. We also see that despite it being an offshoot of Arabic, Lebanese is [...]
Trendy Fateh militant
Posted in Culture, tagged Terrorism on August 22, 2007 | 3 Comments »
What strikes me in this picture of the Fateh Al-Islam leader is that he is wearing nifty glasses. What happened to all that piety he claims for himself? I mean, a nice pair of glasses can be quite pricey these days.
Arabic under threat
Posted in Culture on March 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
An article appeared on Al-Arabia’s web site regarding the threat that Arabic is facing as a living language in the Arab world. I have long considered this to be a major problem facing Arab countries and Arab society in general, especially as new ideas and innovation in the Arab world, as few as those are, [...]
Public libraries
Posted in Culture on March 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
We often complain of the lack of descent public libraries in Lebanon. Instead of complaining, we can do something. There are in fact a number of public libraries (contact them) in the country and all of them accept book donations. I am sure there are also ways to donate money for facilities as well as [...]
Lebanese Optimism
Posted in Culture, Economics, Foreign Affairs, Journalism, Politics, Society on February 4, 2006 | 2 Comments »
In this blog I plan to write about why and how I think Lebanon’s future is a bright one. We are a resilient nation, though we have many problems. We are also a very determined nation and I think we will eventually find our way out of the crisis we are in. Once out, we [...]
