Suddenly, or so it appears to people on the outside, Lebanon has a problem with garbage. Just one day the garbage trucks didn’t come. The dumpsters were full and overflowing, and people were throwing bags of rotting stuff out on the curbs. Pictures of heaped up debris appeared in the papers for the world to […]
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Frances Fuller, Award Winning Author Of ‘In Borrowed Houses’, Thanks Lebanese-American Organization ATFL And Relates An Amazing Story Frances Fuller’s award-winning memoir, ‘In Borrowed Houses’, gives readers a penetrating glimpse of the Middle East from the inside. She puts a face on the Middle East many Americans have not yet seen [Wilmington, NC July […]
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Because bad news tends to grab the headlines away from good news, we often fail to notice or even really don’t hear about hopeful activities and statements. For this reason I have been trying to pay special attention to good news and call other people’s attention to them. Below are ten tidbits picked out of […]
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As Anthony Bourdain said on CNN in his last report from Beirut and as he was quoted in The New York Times, “It makes absolutely no sense, in a wonderful way.” Because he is definitely onto a truth here, I would like to give him a little assistance by citing a few examples, beginning with […]
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Today, July 10, an article of great interest to me, and surely to Lebanese Americans and every friend of Lebanon, came somehow into my mailbox. Written by Dr. George T. Cody, executive director of the American Task Force for Lebanon, the article deals with the power level story of the most painful period of my […]
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