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Any room left for dreaming?

Let freedom ring! Wednesday August 28, 2013, while watching President Obama acclaiming Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous “I have a dream” speech, I kept on following up on local news, tweets and alerts: from the possible military attack on Syria, dismantling car bombs, unveiling information about Syrians involved in the cruel blasts that took place […]

In the Land of Cedars : Lebanon must learn its lesson from the thirty years of violence

Thousands of images rush through my head when I think about living in Lebanon. It is incredible how fresh the memories are—how painful the events are to recall. Indeed, it is euphemism to call them “events.” They are perhaps more accurately described in stronger terms: “wars,” “atrocities,” “massacres,” “kidnappings,” “hijackings,” “plots” and even “gross treason.” […]