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Min Ayna Laka Hatha? The Arabic proverb that best translates to: from where did you acquire this wealth? This of course implies at worst a sense of corruption and at best a susceptible source of wealth.
Full financial disclosure has proven to be a public policy measure that increases accountability in the public sector. The financial […]

BEIRUT (AFP) - Lebanese may have lost homes, loved ones and livelihoods, but one thing they haven’t lost in the aftermath of the war is their legendary sense of humor.
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Jokes helped them survive Israel’s devastating military onslaught and are now making the post-war healing process a lot easier. Anecdotes are to be found everywhere — […]

The times they are a changin’….to an earlier point in time…
AMMAN â?? The government on Monday said it renewed last week Hamas politburo chief Khaled Mishaalâ??s passport upon his request.
â??Mr Mishaal holds a Jordanian passport… he submitted a request to renew his passport and it was approved,â? Government Spokesperson Nasser Judeh told a weekly press […]

Conan hosting was probably the only good thing about the Emmys this year. The new and controversial voting system that spit out strange nominations and snubbed the big hitters like LOST just screwed things up. What made it disappointing for me wasn’t so much the show but rather the fact that the West Wing won […]

Abdallah Amhaz (L) and his bride Mona stand in the rubble of a destroyed building before their wedding, organized by Hizbollah, in a district that was damaged during the conflict between Israel and Lebanon’s Hizbollah in Beirut’s southern suburbs, August 27,2006. REUTERS/Jamal Saidi (LEBANON)

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A few weeks ago there was a big deal made over a Reuters photographer that was fired because of a few fake photos. Suddenly bloggers with a lot of free time on their hands started doing their own professional photoshop investigations, much to my amusement. Well Reuters has just paid for it in Gaza. The […]

Hezbollah chief Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah has said he would not have ordered the capture of two Israeli soldiers if he had known it would lead to such a war.

“Had we known that the kidnapping of the soldiers would have led to this, we would definitely not have done it,” he said in an interview on […]