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Sports - This autumn, Ramadan made it hard on sportsmen and trainers
By Mhamad Ezzedine
This year, just like every Ramadan, Lebanese athletes were due to combine religious convictions with sports. This year’s sacred month in Islam, during which the believers should fast from sunrise to sunset, came in a critical training period...Full Story>> |
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Health - Obesity: a globe trotter?
By Yara Sfeir
Is Obesity a problem only found in the United States and Europe or does it also exist in Lebanon? What percentage of the population is obese in Lebanon? What about in the rest of the Middle East? Recent research conducted in the region reveals...Full Story>> |
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Health - Alzheimer : families also need help
By Élodie Morel Lebbos
September 21st marked the 15th world day against Alzheimer’s. In Lebanon there are around 35000 people suffering from this pathological disease which affects around 1% of the population and is still locally considered a taboo. Since 2003, a...Full Story>> |
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Social - Ramadan drummer struggles with changing times in Sidon
By Mahmoud Zayyat
For the past 37 years, Mohammed Fannas's "tambour" drum has woken up Muslims of the southern Lebanese city of Sidon during Ramadan for their last meal before a day of fasting from sunrise. But now Fannas feels endangered and faces...Full Story>> |
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Entertainment - 'Invincible' Palestinians rap from Lebanon refugee camps
By Rima Abushakra
Teenage rappers Yassim Kassem and Mohammed Turek have no qualms about upsetting politicians or clerics when they sing of inter-Palestinian violence and the daily hardship of life in the refugee camps.Full Story>> |
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Social - UN soldier trades her blue beret for a veil
By Ali Dia
Sylvia Monika Wyszomirska is a Catholic from Poland, but in an effort to integrate better into south Lebanon's conservative society she has traded her UN peacekeeper's beret for a headscarf during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.Full Story>> |
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Business - Back to school with steep bills
By Virginie Vilar
Salary stagnation, inflation : the purchasing power of the Lebanese is in free fall. In this harsh economic situation, the start of a new school year is often a financial burden for parents, because, unlike other expenditures, school stationery...Full Story>> |
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Politics - Sunni and Shiite communities expecting Sarkozy’s visit to Damascus
By Virginie Vilar
Nicolas Sarkozy began on Wednesday a two-day visit in Damascus to meet Syrian President Bachar el Assad. It is the first time after three years that a French president visits Syria. In 2005, after the assassination of Rafic Hariri, Jacques Chirac...Full Story>> |
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Social - In Lebanon, deminers hang up their detectors as funds dry up
By Rima Abushakra
Since the end of the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah, 27 civilians and 13 deminers have been killed in southern Lebanon as a result of cluster bombs and unexploded ordnance. With funds drying up for the demining operations under way, the UN...Full Story>> |
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Business - On the streets of Beirut, the political situation fired up the “On Sale” banners
By Sarah Hourany
Doha Agreement, election of a new president, formation of a national unity government: for Lebanon, those facts result in the improvement of the local economy, which benefits from the comeback of the stability, whether durable or not. While the...Full Story>> |
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