On April 14th, 2016, Me Diana Rhayem was appointed to serve as a member of the Advisory Council of World Vision International.
World Vision is a global Christian relief, development and advocacy organisation dedicated to working with children, families and communities to overcome poverty and injustice.
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 Tripoli last Friday, through investigations still taking place with respect to the kidnapping of the Turkish pilot and assistant to the blast that occurred in Rweiss in the Southern suburb of Beirut;not to mention the number of illegal check points popping up here and there, all this and the newly appointed Prime Minister is still unable to form his Government while thousands of Syrians fleeing through the Lebanese permeable borders. Read more
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.”
There have been so many of these events in Lebanon. When I stopped to think about what to say about life in Lebanon when writing this piece, all these memories came into my mind at once, and the sounds of war rang in my ears. Each person probably remembers these events differently, depending on their region and religion. But what the events have in common is that they destroyed our beloved country—the country of the cedars and honey and of the old townhouses filled with the warmth and hospitality of its people, and with its beautiful wild flowers of all colors and scents, hundreds of bountiful fruit trees, and all four seasons.
