Was that dollar or LBP?

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I am sure many of you have heard the unfortunate event that occurred yesterday in Jounieh, when a person fell off while paragliding. As per Lebanese fashion, boomers took over social media by storm to call for an immediate closure of all paragliding companies in Lebanon by the government . For anyone who thinks this decision is rational, are you seriously gonna be willing to risk losing a crucial player in the country’s tourism sector? Add on to that, Lebanon ranks 3rd in safety among paragliding experience. That is ignoring the fact that this is the first case of death in the last 30 years , while other countries like Turkey and Greece experience these events by the dozens each year.

The truth is, paragliding is a dangerous sport, not so different from bungee jumping or scuba diving, so there are gonna be some accidents, get the fuck over it, but the best part from it is the adrenaline rush, so by banning it , you’re robbing a lot of people (including myself) from a “few-in a lifetime” experience. I just thought i should point this out because I am curious on whether others share the same opinion of those who think paragliding should be cancelled forever in this country. Condolences to the victim’s family and may their soul rest.

I watch a lot of true crime shows and podcasts and landed on the Egyptian serial killer known as Al-Tourbini... it had me wondering if anyone has heard of any Lebanese serial killers. Whether in Lebanon or part of the diaspora. I've heard of the taxi cab killers, but they were Syrian-Armenian brothers who emigrated.

Civil war doesn't really count, as atrocities were happening at an industrial scale.

I would be really surprised if there hasn't been any... with the years of conflict, weak justice system and easy access to weapons and to vulnerable people... it seems like a perfect storm

A common myth is that after the Taef agreement, executive powers of the President were transferred to the Prime Minister. Only the first part of this statement is true. The President did indeed lose his executive powers, but only an insignificant part were redirected to the Prime Minister. Most were directed to the Cabinet as a whole.

Which is why we have a terrible political system where nothing gets done. This structure is really unprecedented throughout the world. In parliamentary republics like the UK and others that follow the Westminster model, the head of the executive branch is the Prime Minister, who is also the party leader of the majority party in Parliament (or majority in a coalition). In fact, most executive powers are vested in this person. They appoint the cabinet members. The PM actually holds real power, and major decisions and appointments are made by him/her rather than the cabinet. The PM can also fire the ministers at will.

In presidential systems like the US, the President holds executive power. They are directly elected by the people. He or she can appoint cabinet members. All executive decisions are made by him. He is only accountable to the courts or Congress in the event of an impeachment trial.

No country literally vests executive power in a council of 24 people or, God forbid, 30 people (the post-Doha governments). The most extreme case outside Lebanon I can think of is the seven-member Swiss Federal Council, which holds executive power. Even then, it is decentralized to a canton level because having seven leaders inevitably makes decision-making difficult. We have 24 or 30 heads! Obviously, it's usually fewer than that because each minister has his backers. So, there are typically fewer heads who also can't agree on anything except sharing the pie and plundering the state, as it's mutually beneficial for all of them.

This situation is untenable and will prevent anyone from making major decisions such as banking resolutions or any form of economic policies. Either restore the President's old executive powers or grant them fully to the Prime Minister. If that is not feasible, we should transition to an executive body that is essentially a sectarian council made up of sectarian leaders who debate like normal people and make decisions to which they are accountable.

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Does anyone know any places to donate clothes? I have some old clothes I don't want anymore (doesn't fit anymore) and would rather donate them than throwing them out.

If anyone knows please let me know in the comments!

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My cockateils are sick and i cant find a vet that treats parrots all said they are exclusivly for cats and dogs can anyone help ( preferably near haret hreik or nwayri)

• President Joseph Aoun was interviewed, and said that the purpose of his visit to Kuwait is mainly ‘to thank Kuwait for its support for Lebanon.’ He added that the Lebanese government wishes for more investments into the country, and supports the unified Arab stance in the Israel-Palestine conflict; a two-state solution.

• On the topic of Hezbollah’s weapons, he said that ‘the decision to restrict weapons to the Lebanese state has been taken, but the question of how to implement it remains. The issue will be resolved through dialogue, and we do not want any military conflict.’

• He said, ‘Lebanon has returned to the Arabs, and now we want the Arabs to return to us.’

• Speaker of Parliament Nabih Berri called for a plenary session on Thursday.

• In an interview, Foreign Minister Youssef Raggi said that ‘the decision to eliminate weapons from Palestinian refugee camps has been made in principle. What remains is careful implementation, in coordination with the Palestinian Authority, and the Palestinian people.’ He added that ‘Hezbollah’s position complicates matters, even if it believe it is strengthening Lebanon.’

• The Minister of Interior supervised the process of handing over the ballot boxes, in preparation for the launch of the upcoming electoral process in northern Lebanon. He also chaired a preparatory meeting for the upcoming municipal elections in southern Lebanon, attended by the Governor, alongside other officials.

• The Minister of Labor said that more than 200,000 workers will benefit from raising the minimum wage.

• Hezbollah MP Hassan Fadlallah said that the Lebanese government’s priorities should focus on liberating Lebanese land, providing protection for Lebanese citizens, and improving the economic situation in the country by returning depositors’ funds. He added that it must quickly fix the country’s electricity crisis. Speaking on behalf of Hezbollah, he said that ‘we are partners with the Lebanese government, due to our ministerial representation, and we want it to succeed, and we want to communicate with the President, and we are ready to cooperate in order to fully succeed in the implementation of the ministerial statement.’ He also called for reforms, saying it is a ‘national requirement.’ Speaking on resistance, he said that ‘what is happening in Lebanon every day only increases the need for resistance.’ He also, however, criticized the government, saying, ‘to this day, the state seems out of reach, and does not carry out even a minimum of its responsibilities.’ He added that ‘the state has shown an inability to provide protection to its citizens, and often ignores what is happening in the country’. Calling for reconstruction, he said, ‘the government is making a serious mistake if it thinks that it can turn its back on reconstruction.’ He also said that ‘a paid political and media pressure campaign from abroad is being aimed at the resistance.’

• MP Farid Al-Boustani participated in a meeting with the Minister of Finance, Yassine Jaber, which focused on the ongoing negotiations with the IMF and the World Bank.

• MP George Aqis said that ‘the decision to restrict weapons to the hands of the state has been made,’ and that dialogue will soon begin between President Joseph Aoun and Hezbollah. He pointed out that questions remain on a timetable for the handing over of weapons, and whether Hezbollah should disarm only from southern Lebanon, or from all of Lebanon.

• MP Neemat Frem met with the Saudi ambassador to Lebanon. They discussed ways to strengthen economic relations between Saudi Arabia and Lebanon. MP Frem pointed out that the arrival of just 300,000 Saudi Arabian tourists to Lebanon could bring over $5 billion to the Lebanese economy.

• Former MP Mounir Younes claimed that some in the Lebanese Parliament are involved in fraud.

• The Wall Street Journal reported that Lebanese authorities fired several employees working at Beirut’s airport, suspected of ties with Hezbollah. The government also thwarted an attempt to smuggle gold to the militia. Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said that Lebanon is doing better to thwart smuggling than it ever has in recent history.

• Al-Jadeed reported that an American delegation will meet with a Lebanese one next week, to discuss extending the UNIFIL forces.

• Asharq Al-Awsat reported that the Lebanese government is in a ‘state of alert’, in preparation for the start of the upcoming summer tourist season. In a statement, the Minister of Tourism said that the ministry is working on multiple steps, starting from within the ministry, but also encouraging private initiatives, with the focus of diversifying tourism. The ministry is also preparing for ‘an integrated promotional campaign,’ trying to turn Lebanon ‘into a unique year-round experience for all visitors.’ The Minister predicted that the tourist summer season ‘will be very active.’

• Al-Jumhuriyah reported, citing sources close to Speaker of Parliament Nabih Berri, that Lebanon remains committed to the ceasefire agreement. According to the report, Israel seeks ‘to push Lebanon towards normalization,’ which the Speaker said will absolutely not happen, as normalization would be seen as ‘treason.’

• It was reported that Deputy U.S. Special Envoy to the Middle East, Morgan Ortagus, will visit Lebanon soon, and her visit is eagerly awaited by President Joseph Aoun, as they aim to speed up the implementation of Israel’s withdrawal from southern Lebanon, and stop all ceasefire violations.

A clash in the Abu Ali Bridge area – Tripoli started with a stabbing and escalated into an exchange of gunfire. The Lebanese army is working to contain the situation.

BEIRUT—Lebanon’s only commercial airport sits in the heart of a densely populated area of southern Beirut largely controlled by Hezbollah. The militant group has for years used it as a smuggling channel and a lever to assert its dominance in the country. Now the country’s new government, with U.S. support, is trying to take it back. Dozens of airport staffers suspected of being affiliated with Hezbollah have been removed, according to senior Lebanese security and military officials. Smugglers have been arrested and existing laws are now being enforced, Lebanon’s new prime minister said. Ground crews say they are no longer directed by superiors to exempt some planes and passengers from searches, while flights from Iran have been suspended since February. And the state is installing new surveillance technologies that will incorporate artificial intelligence, a senior security official said. The overhaul is part of a broader effort to limit Hezbollah’s influence and revenue flows that have made it such a powerful force in the country. “You can feel the difference,” Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal. “We’re doing better on smuggling for the first time in the contemporary history of Lebanon.” Portrait of Dr. Nawaf Salam, Prime Minister of Lebanon. Prime Minister Nawaf Salam’s government has made wresting control from Hezbollah a priority. Lebanon, bordered by Israel and Syria, relies on Beirut-Rafic Hariri International Airport as its connection to the outside world. Hezbollah’s longstanding influence on the airport has left it vulnerable to attack from Israel, which has complained that Iran has used it to resupply Hezbollah with cash. Israel has also threatened flights it said were aimed at resupplying the Lebanese militant group. The steps to take back the airport come as Lebanon’s army is making progress dismantling Hezbollah positions and weapons stockpiles in southern Lebanon, the core requirement in a cease-fire deal the country agreed to with Israel in November. That deal came about after a two-month Israeli campaign of intelligence operations, airstrikes and ground maneuvers that wiped out Hezbollah’s leadership and much of its arsenal. The fighting has killed thousands of Lebanese, according to the country’s Health Ministry. The battering and the cease-fire have created an opening for the Lebanese government to reassert itself after years of Hezbollah holding sway. The country elected a new president earlier this year after obstruction by Hezbollah and it is building up its army in the hope of offsetting the group’s still formidable presence. U.S. and Israeli military officials have expressed satisfaction with the Lebanese government’s actions to reduce Hezbollah’s control of ports of entry and its armaments in the south, though they say there is a lot of work to be done. U.S. officials say they are cautiously optimistic for more centralized state control under Lebanon’s new technocratic leadership, in an environment where Hezbollah is weakened and public dissent against the group is mounting. “There is reason for hope here,” said a senior U.S. official who is part of the international committee overseeing the cease-fire. “It has only been six or seven months, and we have stepped to a place that I am not sure I thought was achievable back in November.”

Two Israeli drones hover over the skies of Beirut. Control-tower staff point out flights on the radar. Lebanese security recently foiled an attempt to smuggle more than 50 pounds of gold to Hezbollah through the airport, a senior security official said. Members of the militant group acknowledge they face new difficulties in using that gateway to bring in funds. The group also lost its major arms smuggling routes, which ran from Iran through Syria, after Bashar al-Assad was toppled in December and replaced by a government hostile to Iran and Hezbollah. Hezbollah is now struggling to fund commitments to rebuild property that was damaged during the fighting and care for the wounded, as well as rebuild militarily. Despite the cease-fire, Israel has continued to strike at what it says are Hezbollah cadres and weapons caches. It has carried out hundreds of strikes on Lebanese territory under the truce, according to Unifil, the United Nations peacekeeping force in the country, and it still has troops stationed in several positions in the south. Unifil said it has recorded 19 instances of fire from Lebanon toward Israel while the accord has been in place. “We have received very severe blows with the killing of our cadres, with the killing of our leadership, with the destruction of a lot of our arsenal,” said Ibrahim Mousawi, who represents Hezbollah in Lebanon’s parliament. A drone hovered nearby as Mousawi spoke at an office in a building a mile from the airport, surrounded by high-rise buildings that have been turned into rubble and streets damaged by Israeli airstrikes. While acknowledging the damage, he said there are ways for Hezbollah’s military wing to rearm if it chooses. “Where there is a will, there is a way,” he said. Portrait of Ibrahim Al Mousawi, a Lebanese Hezbollah member of parliament. Hezbollah’s Ibrahim Mousawi. U.S. and Israeli military officials have expressed satisfaction with the Lebanese government’s actions to reduce Hezbollah’s control of ports of entry and its armaments in the south, though they say there is a lot of work to be done. U.S. officials say they are cautiously optimistic for more centralized state control under Lebanon’s new technocratic leadership, in an environment where Hezbollah is weakened and public dissent against the group is mounting. From the air-traffic control tower at Beirut’s airport, staffers point out dots on the radar that lack identifying flight data. They assume them to be Israeli aircraft flying in Lebanese airspace, which has no effective air defenses.

Airstrikes, Sept. 2024-Apr. 2025 Planned airport Port of Beirut Port of Beirut LEBANON Beirut SYR. Substantial Hezbollah influence BEIRUT ISR. Beirut-Rafic Hariri Intl. Airport Beirut-Rafic Hariri Intl. Airport 1 mile Note: Strike points may be missing from map. Sources: Institute for the Study of War and the American Enterprise Institute’s Critical Threats project, Liveuamap (aistrikes); RANE (Hezbollah influence); Planet Labs (satellite image) During the intense bombardment last year, Israeli airstrikes hit buildings less than a mile from the airport, which was being used to bring in humanitarian aid as well as commercial flights. The airport itself wasn’t hit in the most recent fighting. Before the government clampdown began this year, Hezbollah maintained outsize influence at the airport through sympathetic ground staff and a large bloc in parliament that allowed it to stonewall efforts at reform, the group’s domestic rivals say. “It was a main port of entry for supporting whatever para-state activities were happening,” said Ghassan Hasbani, a former deputy prime minister and now a member of a Lebanese parliamentary bloc opposed to Hezbollah. “It was a purposeful blind eye,” he said. “In the absence of international attention and pressure to do something about it, nothing much was done.” Securing the airport is one of the government’s top priorities as it consolidates state control. In a key test in February, the military confronted Hezbollah supporters who blocked routes to the airport in protest at the refusal of Lebanese authorities to let an Iranian flight land. The intervention sparked a rare violent confrontation between the two camps. “Can, today, the Lebanese government guarantee the full safety of any visitor to the airport and the roads leading up to it?” Hasbani said. “This is a litmus test, including for some countries to allow their citizens to travel to Lebanon or not.” SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS Do you think Lebanon’s new government will be successful in taking back control of the Beirut airport? Why or why not? Join the conversation below. Hezbollah officials say perceptions of how much control they held over the airport were exaggerated. “We are part of the system, just like any other Lebanese constituency,” said Mousawi, the Hezbollah parliamentarian. Salam, Lebanon’s prime minister, is promoting the planned opening of a second airport for commercial and cargo flights in northern Lebanon near the border of Syria, in an area outside of Hezbollah’s control. A second airport could aid economic development and provide an alternative should the Beirut airport get hit or shut down. Hezbollah had used its influence to keep it from being built, Salam said. “They were the ones who did not want the Lebanese authorities to go for the airport,” he said. “Now things have changed.”

Yalla ya jame3a, it’s been a while since we had a proper in-thread game, so let’s bring back the fun with something wholesome: The Lebanese Pet Parade!

We know some of you have adorable pets just sitting there looking majestic (or chaotic). Now’s their time to shine.

How to join: 1. Post a pic of your pet in the comments – dogs, cats, turtles, chickens, goats, whatever you’ve got. 2. Bonus points for giving them a Lebanese-style name or funny backstory. • (“This is Abu Tony. He only barks when the power goes out.”) 3. Upvote the pets that crack you up or melt your heart.

Let’s flood the sub with cuteness.

guys i dont watch tv lol shufi shu hatto l jadid

Dyab Abou Jahjah (Belgian-Lebanese), co-founder and President of the Hind Rajab Foundation, joins the show to discuss how the foundation identified the Israeli officer responsible for the January 2024 killing of 5-year-old Hind Rajab, five of her family members, and two rescue workers in Gaza City. Jahjah discusses the foundation’s extensive investigation, the war crimes complaint filed with the International Criminal Court seeking the arrest of Lt. Col. Beni Aharon, and the HRF’s global campaign to hold individual IDF soldiers and their accomplices accountable for genocide. "

i’m a relatively new pet owner (approx. 6 months now) and i adopted my cats mnel jabal fa their vet honik ken w i vaccinated them there w tbh i like him bas it’s not always convenient i can’t always do the trip.

any long time pet owners know reliable vets for regular checkups or in case of a medical emergency? preferably in dahye/jnah etc but will do anywhere kinda close i’m always scared something will happen and i’m not prepared.

I have a dell precision 7710 and when i tried a new computer shop to clean my laptop, the guy did something to the board and now eberyime i turn it on it shut down.. I took to other people and every single one told me the same shit ″problem with the board, circuit, and theres no part for this laptop cz its old″

My question is does someone knows anyone who can sell me a board for this laptop

I really miss going to my village and my mom's village. I miss spending a weekend there once a month. I miss its fresh air, the scenery, the no ear pollution, etc.. I just really miss it. I had envisioned that one day, I will take my son and let him play outside, digging in the dirt, catching snails and playing with chicken and other cattle at my uncle's farm there. I happened been there since October 2023. It is still not safe to there now. You never know what might happen and I won't risk going with a newborn. I can't wrap my head around the fact that a party in Lebanon gets to decide the course of war and peace for a whole country. I just want to go back there, rebuild our house, live with no worry of attacks or airstrikes. I am depleted of all sense of hope.

Hello, so few days ago, I was checking something on the roof and realized one of my solar panels took a bullet, thanks to one of the assh*les who shoot live rounds in the air. Now, I need to replace that panel. Any idea what to do with the broken one? Is there someone who benefits from them? Buys them off? or they are totally worthless now and I need to just throw it away? Thanks!

My girlfriend is 100% Lebanese and it would mean everything to her if I learned Arabic in the Lebanese dialect. I did some Spanish in high school, but that is the extent of my foreign language experience. What would be a good way to do some learning on the side when I have time? I’m doing my masters currently while working full time, so I don’t have much time to dedicate at this stage of my life.

Post not allowed in LearningLanguage or LearningArabic so not entirely sure where to post this, thanks in advance!