LEBANON

By Dr. Amine Jules Iskandar President of the Syriac Maronite Union – Tur Levnon To show the importance of Syriac in the Lebanese tongue, and to proof it is a dialect of Syriac, we will go through 6 typical phrases and 5 proverbs, and analyze them word by word to…

This article was originally published on 3 December 2008 by The Gatestone Institute. The original can be found Here. By  Jean-Pierre Katrib On May 21 2008, an agreement brokered between Lebanon’s feuding factions at Doha, Qatar ended days of armed unrest and 18 months of political stalemate.  For many, this…

DIMANE – Syriac Maronite Patriarch Béchara Boutros al-Raï received German ambassador to Lebanon Andreas Kindl at the Patriarchate in Dimane. Talking points were the recent developments in Lebanon and the relations between Germany and the Patriarchate. His Holiness thanked Germany and the German people for standing with the Lebanese people…

BEIRUT — “Beirut Chants for Hope,” an evening of spiritual hymns and patriotic songs, was held in Mar Maroun Church in the Gemmayze district in downtown Beirut on Wednesday, opposite the site of the 4 August explosion at Beirut’s port that killed 191 people, injured over 6,500, and left 300,000 other…

BEIRUT — A massive fire has broken out at the site of the 4 August explosion at Beirut’s port that killed nearly 200 people, injured over 6,000, and left 300,000 other homeless. Firefighter crews at #Beirut port. Blaze caused by oil and tires igniting. AKA last thing anyone in this…

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of the Treasury has blacklisted two former Lebanese ministers and imposed sanctions on them for their support of Lebanese Hezbollah and involvement in corruption. In a statement released on Tuesday, the U.S. Treasury announced that it had imposed sanctions on the former Lebanese Minister…

BEIRUT, BKERKE, Lebanon – As designate Prime Minister Mustafa Adib has started forming a new Lebanese government, Syriac Maronite Patriarch Bechara Boutros al-Raï on Sunday called on the PM-designate Adib to form a “small, qualified and strong” emergency-government. His Holiness Al-Raï stressed that “fateful times” in Lebanon today require a…

By Dr. Amine Jules Iskandar President of the Syriac Maronite Union – Tur Levnon Is today’s spoken Lebanese originally a dialect of Syriac? To answer this question in an academic way we need to consider the analysis of the following linguistic approaches: • The Syntax: the structure of the phrases;…

BEIRUT — A month after the Beirut port disaster, the World Council of Churches, Act Alliance, and the Middle East Council of Churches offer their deepest condolences to all Lebanese who lost loved ones on 4 August. The groups declared their solidarity with the bereaved and wounded and called for…

BEIRUT — On Thursday, a month after the massive explosive at Beirut’s port, a rescue team in the  Gemmayzeh managed to locate possible trapped under the rubble of collapsed buildings. Paramedic Eddy Bitar said that the team, with the help of trained dogs, detected signals indicating the presence of breathing…