Richard Rahil Al Khazen is a professional Actor located in the Washington, DC area. He has worked on a myriad of film and television projects. His credits include working with New Dominion Pictures for the National Geographic cable channel, the Discovery channel, Lifetime Cable Network, and PBS television. He appeared on The West Wing with Martin […]
وداع رسمي وشعبي حاشد لـ"كبيرة الأميرات"
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الرئيس الجميل معزياً الامير الوليد. وبدا بينهما الاميران اسماعيل وهشام العلوي. |
الرئيس لحود والامير الوليد بن طلال. |
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ممثل رئيس الجمهورية الوزير وديع الخازن يعزي ليلى الصلح في المطار |
الشقيقات بكين علياء الصلح وأولادهن والأمراء حملوها على الأكف
بدموع حارقة وحزن كبير، ودّع الابناء والشقيقات والبنات والاحفاد والاقرباء والاصدقاء السيدة علياء الصلح في مأتم رسمي وشعبي حاشد ومهيب. وقد بدأ مشوار الوداع الحزين من الصباح، بوصول جثمان الصلح الى بيروت، ورافقته شقيقة الراحلة السيدة لمياء، ارملة الامير عبد الله العلوي، واولادها الاميران المولاي هشام ومولاي اسماعيل والاميرة زينب، والدكتور سعيد الاسعد، في طائرة خاصة لطيران الشرق الاوسط آتية من باريس.
وغصّت قاعات مطار رفيق الحريري الدولي بشخصيات رسمية وسياسية ووفود شعبية ودينية حضرت من مختلف المناطق لاستقبال الجثمان، وتقدمتها شقيقات الفقيدة: منى، والى جانبها اولادها الاميران الوليد وخالد والاميرة ريما بن طلال بن عبد العزيز، بهيجة زوجة الدكتور سعيد الاسعد، والى جانبها اولادها رياض وحسن ونائلة وديالا، وليلى ارملة ماجد حمادة، والى جانبها اولادها صبري وهيّا ومهى.
وكان ايضا في طليعة المستقبلين، الوزير السابق وديع الخازن ممثلا رئيس الجمهورية، النائب محمد قباني ممثلا رئيس مجلس النواب، الوزير خالد قباني ممثلا رئيس الحكومة، وفد من كتلة "الوفاء للمقاومة" ضم النواب محمد رعد وعلي عمار وامين شري، وفد من "تكتل التغيير والاصلاح" ضم النواب ادغار معلوف ونبيل نقولا وعباس هاشم والشيخ محمد رشيد راغب قباني ممثلا مفتي الجمهورية والسفير السعودي عبد العزيز خوجة والسفير المغربي علي اومليل ورئيس المحكمة الشرعية السنية العليا الشيخ عبد اللطيف دريان يرافقه القاضي الشيخ عارف الحاج والامين العام المساعد لجامعة الدول العربية السفير عبد الرحمن الصلح ووفود من مشايخ الطائفة الدرزية، ووفود شعبية من اقضية راشيا وبعلبك والهرمل.
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ابنة الراحلة فايزة تتسلم من النائب السابق اميل لحود وسام الارز برتبة كومندور. وبدت الى جانبها شقيقتا الراحلة لمياء ومنى. |
الوزير حماده معزياً الامير الوليد. (دالاتي ونهرا) |
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بعد انزال النعش من الطائرة، لُفّ بالعلم اللبناني قبل نقله الى قاعة الشرف في مبنى كبار الزوار بواسطة سيارة اسعاف تابعة لجمعية المقاصد الخيرية الاسلامية. وهناك تلا الشيخ دريان صلاة على الجثمان، مشيدا بالراحلة "ابنة زعيم الاستقلال". ومن المطار، انطلق موكب مهيب وراء النعش، وصولا الى قصر رياض الصلح في بئر حسن، حيث القى الاهل والاصدقاء نظرة أخيرة عليه. ثم نقل الى جامع الإمام الأوزاعي، حيث أمّ الشيخان دريان والحاج الصلاة على روح الراحلة في مأتم رسمي شارك فيه النائب السابق اميل اميل لحود ممثلا رئيس الجمهورية، النائب قباني ممثلا رئيس مجلس النواب، والوزير قباني ممثلا رئيس الحكومة.
وفي نهاية الصلاة، حمل نعش الراحلة أبناء شقيقاتها الأمير الوليد بن طلال والأمير خالد بن طلال ورياض سعيد الأسعد وماجد حمادة والأميران إسماعيل وهشام، وصولا الى المقبرة في مقام الإمام الأوزاعي، حيث ووريت في الثرى.
اشاد بالاجماع الوطني علـــــى ادانة القتل الفتنوي
وديع الخازن: موقف جنبلاط عامل ايجابي وهزة وجدانية
المركزية – اشاد رئيس المجلس العام الماروني الوزير السابق وديع الخازن بالموقف الملفت لرئيس اللقاء الديموقراطي النائب وليد جنبلاط الذي حرص على ابقاء حادث قتل الشابين زياد غندور وزياد قبلان بمنأى عن التسييس.تعليقا على الإجماع الوطني حول إدانة جريمة خطف وقتل زياد قبلان وزياد غندور أدلى الخازن بالتصريح التالي:
لم يشهد لبنان إجماعا وطنيا على قضية كمثل إجماع قياداته على إدانة القتل الفتنوي الذي أرتكب بحق شابين بريئين في مقتبل العمر، لا لشيء إلا بدافع مشبوه من أجل الإيقاع بين اللبنانيين لا سيما على خلفية مذهبية بغيضة.فإذا كانت العبرة بالنتائج فإن دم الزيادين، الغالي على قلوب مواطنيهم وضمائرهم، لن يذهب هدراً بفضل جهود القيمين على الجيش اللبناني وقوى الأمن الداخلي والأجهزة الأمنية على إختلافها.
وقد يكون هذا الحادث الإجرامي، على بشاعته وشناعته، عاملا إيجابيا يشكل هزة وجدانية في الحالة السياسية والإقتصادية والمعيشية التي وصل إليها الوطن عل المترددين في الحلول يرعوون ويلطفون.
After a night full of beauty at Casino Du Liban, only one girl wore the tiara & carried the title of Miss Lebanon 2007 … 19-year-old Nadine Njeim was crowned by the former Miss Lebanon Gabrielle Bou Rached.
This is really funny, this is the second Nadine Njeim that wins a Miss Lebanon title!
Nadine will be represnting Lebanon in the Miss Universe 2007 pageant, which will be heald in Mexico on May 27th. Good Luck!
The two runner-ups are Maha Khoury & Sahar Sbeity. For more pictures and VIDEOS click read more
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By Nada Bakri, BEIRUT: Columnist and political activist Alia Solh, who was the eldest daughter of former Prime Minister Riad Solh, died on Thursday in Paris. She was 75. Solh died of a heart attack a few days after checking in to the American Hospital of Paris. Known as "the daughter of independence," Solh was heir to the towering legacy of Lebanon’s first prime minister, a politician who helped lead the struggle to drive French troops out of Lebanon. her father was also widely considered to be a pillar of the pan-Arabism movement.
Alia Solh started a long career of advocacy, writing about and influencing Lebanon’s po- litical life from the campus of the American University of Beirut in the early 1950s. On campus she was known for leading demonstrations for women’s rights, and she wrote extensively about Lebanese and Arab causes for a variety of publications.
When the 1975-1990 Lebanese Civil War entered its eighth year, Solh left Beirut to settle in Paris. "I preferred to leave and to take my memories with me, so I could tell the world about them and the Lebanon I knew, so that people would not forget the pearl that lies under the dirt," she said during a 2001 interview published by The Daily Star.
By Robert Fisk in Beirut , Walid Jumblatt may be one of the more charismatic figures in Lebanese political life but when he tells his people to avoid violence, they do as they are told. And so another sectarian killing – the murder of a 12-year-old Sunni boy and his neighbour, their bodies dumped outside Sidon on Thursday night – was transformed into a reminder that the post-civil war Lebanese can remain united.
Both boys were associated with Mr Jumblatt’s largely Druze Progressive Socialist Party but he was the first to call for a government inquiry.Ziad Ghandour and Ziad Qabalan were "martyrs for national unity”, he said alongside members of the Sunni and Shia clergy. "Let’s keep this away from politics, let the judicious process take its course and stop the malicious rumour-mongering.”
Mr Jumblatt even held out a hand to his Hizbollah opposition, thanking them for denouncing the murders and claiming that both himself and Hizbollah were "united by a struggle and resistance (to Israel)”.The Christian ex-president Amin Jemayel, whose politician son Pierre was assassinated in November, even hoped that these recent killings might persuade government ministers and Hizbollah to return to talks after months of crisis following the withdrawal of Shia ministers from the cabinet.The week’s murders have thus again proved that Lebanon can resist the anger of civil conflict. But there had better be no more.
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JERUSALEM, April 28 (UPI) — An Israeli board of inquiry says Israel’s prime minister was rash in going to war against Lebanon last summer. The Winograd Commission concluded Ehud Olmert used "misguided and rash judgment," but stopped short of calling for his dismissal, The Times of London reported Saturday. There is a widespread perception in […]
PARIS, April 24, 2007 (AFP) – French President Jacques Chirac, who leaves office next month, is to move from the Elysee palace to a chic apartment on the capital’s Left Bank, a French newspaper reported Tuesday.
The apartment is being lent to the Chiracs by the family of the former Lebanese president Rafic Hariri, who was assassinated in Beirut in February 2005. Chirac was a close personal friend of Hariri.
Bernadette Chirac is already overseeing the moving of their furniture and possessions to the 180 square-metre (1,900 square-feet) apartment, which has a view across the River Seine to the Louvre museum, said the daily Le Parisien.
The building lies not far from the historic Ecole des Beaux Arts (Fine Arts School) in a neighbourhood known for up-market antique dealers and art galleries. However it is north-facing and fronts onto the Quai Voltaire, which is a major traffic artery.
According to Le Parisien, several photographers stationed outside the apartment were told to leave by police Monday after a complaint from Bernadette Chirac.
BEIRUT: With the second anniversary of the withdrawal of Syrian troops from Lebanese territories to be marked this weekend, the Free Patriotic Movement’s (FPM) youth club at the American University of Beirut (AUB), in collaboration with detainee advocacy group SOLIDE, hosted a conference on Wednesday calling for attention to the plight of Lebanese detainees in Syrian prisons. "We consider the withdrawal of Syria from Lebanon to be incomplete if our compatriots are still being held over there," Bassam Karam, vice president of the youth club, told The Daily Star. "The message from today is that we will continue to press forward with this, and we want the United Nations to extend its mandate on the Hariri investigation to include an investigation into the detained in Syria."
The club circulated a petition prior to the conference calling for such an expansion to the role of the UN commission investigating the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. Attending the conference was FPM MP Gibran Bassil, SOLIDE founder and activist Ghazi Aad, FPM youth club members and some of the parents of inmates held in Syria. Karam questioned the priorities of the international community. "Why do the assassination of a high-ranking official and the assassination attempt of another official deserve an international investigation, while a crime committed every day by Syrian authorities against the families of the detainees and their children does not deserve an international investigation committee? Are the missing second-class citizens?" he said.
By Nadim Ladki, BEIRUT, April 26 (Reuters) – Lebanese police on Thursday found the bodies of a Sunni Muslim government supporter and a 12-year-old boy whose abduction earlier this week was linked to Lebanon’s rising sectarian tension. The bodies of Ziad Qabalan, 25, and Ziad Ghandour, 12, were found in a field north of the port city of Sidon, 40 km (25 miles) south of Beirut, after a local television station received an anonymous phone tip, police sources said.
Ghandour’s father and Qabalan are members of the Progressive Socialist Party of pro-government Druze leader Walid Jumblatt, a fierce opponent of Syria and its Lebanese ally Shi’ite group Hezbollah. Jumblatt swiftly appealed to supporters not to take things into their own hands.