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Can Lebanon rise from its abyss? Father Elia Mitri argues that hope is our greatest force. Our deepest sickness is the refusal to see the preciousness in each other. Recovery isn't a political project but a personal one, starting with the virtue of acknowledging others and taking responsibility for ourselves.
Read moreA few days ago, Netanyahu threatened to eradicate Lebanon. Has Israel begun to implement the so-called “map of the new Middle East”? There is a primordial question. A country that was founded, on usurpation, with global support, is it resuming its wars singlehandedly? Also few days ago, the president of France said: “Israel has the ...
Read moreIt was not the war raging in our vicinity that compelled me to write, nor was it what befalls us of its shrapnel, or rather it was not the only thing that compelled me, but it was also this aggravated wound that we were not able to protect our military and security institutions and their ...
Read moreIn my house, a malfunction in accessing the television network had helped me abstain since months, from local news, political programs, and others. This is an abstention that I sometimes decide on my own. There is nothing to lose! When I want, I am compensated for this abstention by receiving news websites on my phone. ...
Read moreOn the evening of August 4, 2020, I was in the church. The explosion, that boomed out, seemed to me as if it was happening in my office, where I was waiting for the time when we arise to “the Supplication to the Theotokos”. I went up to the church looking for the source of ...
Read moreA friend of mine showed me a footage of a nursery, in which some female employees were abusing infants, both verbally and in action. Does such kind of iniquity exist?! My friend confirmed that the video is authentic, and that the nursery, in which this vicious abuse took place (read it in the sense of ...
Read moreThe question my grandson posed to us yesterday is: "is this Lebanon?". He knows Lebanon. He lived in it a little more than the years he spent away from it. He did not explain himself. He said nothing about what he knew about his country. He said nothing about us, about their house, about ours… ...
Read moreThere is no country like Lebanon that teaches you to “fend for yourself”: in your health safety; in your children’s education; in water and electricity, and in your commute… Do not expect from the country, that is, those who are supposed to rule it, to help you in anything. It is preoccupied with many things, ...
Read moreMost of those who deal with public affairs in our country today excel at one thing, namely, at offering you more and more poison every day. Every responsible person, having an iota of wisdom, if he thinks of developing himself in what he is doing, he will subject himself to criticism and evaluation. I do ...
Read moreMy wife read what I had written a few days ago about our clinical death in Lebanon (26/1). She asked me: “Have you heard the joke people are circulating today?” She did not wait for me, but continued to say: "The entire Lebanese people are surprised that the entire Lebanese people are still silent (about ...
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