Word: beirutization
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WATCH OUT, CNN? On July 2, Iran launched Press TV, an international satellite-news channel in English. The station will present newscasts--with an Iranian spin, no doubt--and reports from its 26 correspondents in cities like Beirut and Gaza City as well as New York, Washington and London. Newcomers to the 24-hour English-language news market since 2005 include Russia Today, France 24 and al-Jazeera International...
...Wednesday, Walid Eido, an outspoken anti-Syrian politician, was killed along with his son, two bodyguards and six civilians in a large car bomb explosion in Beirut. He was the seventh anti-Syrian figure to be assassinated since the murder of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in February 2005. In the north, Lebanese troops remain locked in a bloody three-week confrontation with militants from the Fatah al-Islam faction in the Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp. Lebanese officials say that the recently formed Fatah al-Islam was sent into Lebanon by Syrian military intelligence to cause instability...
...Intifada bases are located, has become a sealed-off military zone. "Everybody is focusing on us and the PFLP-GC because we are pro-Syrian, but we are proud to be pro-Syrian," says Ibrahim Abu Mohammed, a Fatah Intifada security official in the Shatila Palestinian refugee camp in Beirut...
...possibility of a confrontation with the Lebanese army appears to be playing on the minds of the PFLP-GC. The entrance to a PFLP-GC base at Naameh in the coastal hills nine miles south of Beirut has been reinforced recently with sandbags and fiberglass tubs filled with earth. A uniformed gunman pulled a wool mask over his face at the approach of a TIME correspondent. As he called his commander by field telephone, a dozen other heavily armed fighters emerged from a small trail running into the brush-covered hillside beside a long-abandoned factory partially destroyed by years...
...stance on final clubs is notably hands-off because it does not officially recognize them, but aside from the Cambridge Queen’s Head, the alternative social spaces the College provides are laughable. Given the choice between hitting the books at Lamont Café or the Beirut tables at the Fox, the administration cannot honestly expect the average college student to choose the former...