Tag: Bachir Gemayel
Lebanon: Reconciliation impossible? (2/2)
“Shia clerics receive a much more rigorous education than Sunni clerics. They have a solid training in theological sciences. They learn Aristotelian logic before...
Lebanon / History: Bachir Gemayel
On September 14, 1982, Bachir Gemayel disappeared, just 3 weeks after being elected President of the Lebanese Republic, assassinated in an attack which will...
Lebanon / History: May 25, 2000 and the Israeli withdrawal from South Lebanon
Lebanon has been commemorating "Liberation Day" every May 25 since 2000, which is actually the anniversary of the Israeli withdrawal.
This historical period straddles that...
Lebanon / History: the withdrawal of Syrian troops on April 26, 2005
It was on April 26, 2005 that the last Syrian troops left Lebanon, thus putting an end to a presence of almost three decades...
The « Christian » Samir Geagea, destroyer of the rights of Christians
Samir Geagea, leader of the Lebanese Forces (FL) party, gave an interview to Radio Liban Libre (RLL) on 18 February 2021. He said that...
Lebanon / Civil War: A Day in Hell, April 13, 1975
As Lebanon prepares the commemoration the anniversary of the beginning of the civil war, it is important to remember that fratricidal conflict. It claimed...
