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Lebanese Chess: November 2009
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Local ramblings on global issues. Tuesday, November 17, 2009. Museums - an imagined lens into a nation? It took me several months after my arrival into Oslo to wonder into the city's national galleries and art centres. Admittedly, I have never been much of a museum buff, but - as a history lover - I admire and respect art's historical significance, particularly in its contribution to the formation of cultural and national identity. But before you read on, I must stress that I am no art expert. Much of th...
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Lebanese Chess: April 2009
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Local ramblings on global issues. Thursday, April 23, 2009. Scots join boycott of Israel. Received this in my inbox:. The STUC move to a position of BDS followed debate on the Delegation report. With affiliated unions as well as consultations across Scotland. There were written and oral submissions from Zionist as well as human rights bodies. The STUC’s new position is a dramatic breakthrough which has the potential to greatly accelerate the boycott campaign already underway in Scotland against, fo...
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Lebanese Chess: September 2010
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Local ramblings on global issues. Monday, September 6, 2010. Now that I've graduated from my Master's program at the ANU, I have decided to upgrade my blog. You can now find my blog at:. Http:/ www.antounissa.com. Lebanese Chess will remain accessible for archival purposes only. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Follow me on Twitter. Subscribe to Lebanese Chess! Subscribe in a reader. OR Subscribe via email. 8220;Turkey’s Syria Intervention,” by Joshua Landis. Body on the line. A Lebanese-A...
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Lebanese Chess: June 2009
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Local ramblings on global issues. Friday, June 19, 2009. Since taking up my masters course in February, I have been totally consumed by studies. I am nearing the end of the exam period, but I will be embarking on a little voyage of South East Asia in July/August before moving to Norway for a period of 6 months for further study. So as a forewarning, my blogging and journalistic endeavours in the second half of 2009 will be just as sporadic as the first half. Links to this post. Sunday, June 7, 2009.
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Lebanese Chess: Prostitution, gay rights ... a Lebanon beyond tribal politics
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Local ramblings on global issues. Wednesday, September 9, 2009. Prostitution, gay rights . a Lebanon beyond tribal politics. A few items I came across that are worth mentioning. While the oligarchs of our country continue to procrastinate. Over which irrelevant ministry they'll receive (seeing as none of them do any work anyway), some other things are happening in Lebanon . believe it or not. The country has boasted about its return on the tourist map, with record numbers. But something the article didn'...
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Lebanese Chess: October 2008
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Local ramblings on global issues. Sunday, October 12, 2008. Food Wars: The Battle of Hummus. One of the impressive attributes of my old LaTrobe University was its ability to harmoniously host a variety of cultures. Most ethnic groups present on-campus had formed their own cultural group. We had everything from the Hong Kong Student Association, to the Italians, Greeks, Turks, Norwegian, and finally, Lebanese and Israeli. Tabouli salad, hummus dip, n'argileh smoke pipe, and the drbakeh drum were on offer ...
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Lebanese Chess: March 2009
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Local ramblings on global issues. Tuesday, March 24, 2009. A week of speeches. Khatami, Halper and Loewenstein . three public speakers at Australia's main political university, the Australian National University (ANU), in a week. Was eloquent and insightful about his program for dialogue among civilisations, and the need for the various civilisations to respect each other, something which he insists the West does not do vis-a-vis Islam or other cultures of the Third World. Having said that, those who pos...
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Lebanese Chess: Civil society in Lebanon
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Local ramblings on global issues. Friday, November 6, 2009. Civil society in Lebanon. Our PRIO (International Peace Research Institute of Oslo) lecture today focused on what role civil society can play in peacebuilding, primarily in post-conflict settings and preventing the recurrence of violence. I have commented on the emergence of a civil society in Lebanon before, but it is something that has gone largely unnoticed by many analysts, including the researchers at PRIO. Nevertheless, civil society in Le...
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Lebanese Chess: Museums - an imagined lens into a nation?
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Local ramblings on global issues. Tuesday, November 17, 2009. Museums - an imagined lens into a nation? It took me several months after my arrival into Oslo to wonder into the city's national galleries and art centres. Admittedly, I have never been much of a museum buff, but - as a history lover - I admire and respect art's historical significance, particularly in its contribution to the formation of cultural and national identity. But before you read on, I must stress that I am no art expert. Much of th...
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Lebanese Chess: Lebanon's political circus
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Local ramblings on global issues. Thursday, September 10, 2009. Parliamentary elections were held in June. We are now in September . still no government. An excellent editorial (below) in The Daily Star expresses exactly how I, and many Lebanese, feel about the joke that is Lebanon's politics. Spare us the agony of this freak-show called 'governance' in Beirut. To do that we need a government, but not just any old government. Such important decisions can never be taken without unanimity – or at...We know...