by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Feb 8, 2011 | Politics
The National has an entertaining article on Lebanon’s prime minister-designate, Najib Miqati’s credentials, primarily his education: In a section of [Miqati’s official] website entitled “From ‘average student’ to Harvard”, Mr...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Jun 1, 2009 | Politics
An interesting article out of Canada: Corporate sponsors are paying for hundreds of supporters of the pro-Western Future Movement in Calgary and in other Canadian cities to vote on June 7, CBC News has learned. The way the Future Movement coordinator in Canada puts...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | May 31, 2009 | Politics
This is it; the final leg of the election campaign and the expats are flocking in: Lebanese expatriates have started arriving in Beirut to vote in crucial parliamentary elections that could decide the future of the country. According to the Qatari newspaper:...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | May 17, 2009 | Politics
…and he’ll run for MP: For fisherman Mahmood Khaled, nicknamed Abu Karam, it’s all about standing up for Lebanon’s poor and downtrodden. “I have no offices and no money,” the mustachioed 47-year-old father of 15 told AFP. Khaled...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Apr 20, 2009 | Politics
Time Magazine has given rave reviews to the current political play titled: The Suleiman Era. Expectations were low when the former head of the Lebanese Armed Forces, General Michel Suleiman, became president in May 2008 after a nearly two-year political crisis that...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Apr 13, 2009 | Politics
That seems to be the gist of it in South Africa: [African National Congress treasurer-general Mathews] Phosa was confident of a convincing ANC win in the election, as was Mashatile, who predicted a large majority. This was said during the ANC function in Johannesburg...
