Tag Archive 'Lebanon'

Terrorist Smack

Al Qaeda’s Ayman Al-Zawahri disrespecting Hezbollah on the Lebanon War: “What victory? Retreating 30 miles backwards?”

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The Tidal Empires of War

(photo: Charles Roffey - Charles & Fred)
Someone once said that in Damascus you truly can get a little bit pregnant. It’s a good aphorism, because if you asked the foreign minister of almost any state in the Middle East or the Mediterranean what his government’s policy relationship was with Syria, he would automatically furrow his [...]

Beirut Today

My buddy Alex compares the Beirut of today with the Beirut he remembers from 2005. This because he didn’t feel safe reporting anymore from Mogadishu. And he longs to go back home to his garden… in Kabul. His book on sufism is coming out some day soon.

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