ByTheEast Desk (Lebanon)
ByTheEast editorial staff.
How “I-don’t-give-a-shitism” and corruption destroyed Beirut
Beirut was destroyed. Once again. On August 4, following a massive explosion that ravaged Beirut’s neighbourhood, including ones up to 10 km...
Restoring confidence: the impossible Lebanese jigsaw
Confidence is not something you can buy. Or summon. In Lebanon nowadays, confidence won't be restored without the right men in the...
Lebanon: Hariri out, now what?
Victory #1 for this new Lebanon, check. Yesterday at 3pm, Saad al-Hariri resigned as Lebanon’s prime minister on Tuesday, declaring he had...
Lebanese protesters want to kick out the regime
The same flag all over Lebanon, after the same burning tires all over our TV screens: thousands of...
Crisis? What crisis?
It was the riots waiting to happen. Hundreds of Lebanese protested Sunday in the country's capital and other areas over an economic...
(Failed) State of emergency
"All these accidents that happen follow the dots", the songs says. Lebanese deep crisis is no exception. Except nothing here is accidental....
Lebanon-Algeria deals to boost agricultural cooperation
You may not know it, but Lebanon-Algeria's relationships are close. Both countries have a lot in common, except their size as Algeria...
Lebanon-Poland: some ties to boost
Ambassador of Poland to Lebanon Przemyslaw Niesiolowski said on May 17 that his country aims at increasing cooperation between Polish and Lebanese...
Algerians protest in Algiers, Paris: “We want our democracy back”
Yesterday our Paris correspondent David Hury was in the crowd on the Republic Square. As in Algiers and in other European cities,...
Fouad Zmokhol on reforming Lebanon: “It’s time to act”
ByTheEast: A few weeks ago, Beirut hosted the Arab Economic and Social Development Summit which turned out to be a fiasco....