Word: beirutization
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...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...
Alums recall Kristof as one of the brightest undergraduates on campus—he graduated Phi Beta Kappa in three years and earned a Rhodes Scholarship. But he didn’t strike his peers as the type who would be held up at machine-gunpoint in Beirut and elude rebels chasing him through the jungle in Congo...
Speaking from the Grand Serail, the seat of the Lebanese government in Beirut, Prime Minister Fouad Siniora had something dramatic to say in his interview with TIME. He had just gotten off the phone with Secretary of State Condeleezza Rice, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and other world leaders to thank them for their help in establishing an international tribunal to bring plotters in the assassination of one of his predecessors to justice. Now, he says, Lebanese authorities have evidence that Syrian intelligence operatives are behind the ongoing violent clashes in a Palestinian refugee camp near Tripoli as part...
...everyone else on this rescue mission; he has drool from his mouth shyly wiped by his young son. He has a moving reunion with an old friend, Pierre Roussin, to whom he had given up a seat on a plane that was hijacked; Roussin, who was held hostage in Beirut for four years, advises Bauby, "Hold fast to the human inside you, and you will survive." The most poignant scenes are between Bauby and his father (Max Von Sydow). One flashback shows Bauby gently shaving his father; later, the father phones Bauby's hospital room, and breaks down...
...Absi was sentenced to death in absentia by a Jordanian court for the 2002 murder of U.S. diplomat Laurence Foley in Amman. His group - thought to comprise 200-500 fighters drawn from several Arab countries - has recently begun establishing a presence in other refugee camps in Beirut and south Lebanon. Islamist sources in Tripoli said that Fatah al-Islam is being funded by Salafist supporters in the city, which allows them to win popularity in the camps by providing social services. The crackdown on Fatah al-Islam, they say, is part of a broader attempt by the U.S.-backed Lebanese...