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The Economist – The Lebanese Diaspora

Jester theFool — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 16:56:28 +0000

The Economist summarizes that “business people from Lebanon fare better abroad than at home.” Listen to the full article. Link to the full article. Filed under: Lebanese Expatriates, Strictly Lebanese, World Affairs

Consensus Decision-making

Jester theFool — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 19:16:15 +0000

Guest post - Consensus decision-making is a group decision making process that seeks the consent, not necessarily agreement about the “favorite” choice of all participants. Consensus may be defined professionally as an acceptable resolution, one that can be supported, even if not the “favorite” of each individual. Philosophical viewpoint The early Islamic philosopher, Al-Farabi (c. […]

Perk My City – Report Beyrouth Streets Problems

Jester theFool — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 18:08:08 +0000

Lebanese Enterpreneur Wissam Abdel Baki created Perk My City to help Lebanese local citizens report, view, or discuss the disorder in the streets of their city (currently only in Beyrouth). Violations such as abandoned vehicles, graffiti, litter, potholes, road blocks, sidewalk defects and any violation considered disgraceful to the city’s image. To report a violation, the Lebanese […]

Civil society, Students & Casual By-Passers finally take to the streets of Beyrouth, calling for peace

Jester theFool — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 00:19:36 +0000

Civil society activists, students and Lebanese youths staged a “white march” taking to the streets of Beyrouth, starting from Places des Martyrs and reaching Achrafieh’s Sassine Square. The movement “denounced all violence in the country and honors all those who were killed and wounded due to futile political bickering in the country over a span […]

Lebanon Mission for Syria: Selecting & Supporting a Syrian Humanitarian Organization

Jester theFool — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 17:05:01 +0000

It is hard as a Lebanese to be indifferent to the situation in Syria. Our blog has by enlarge been silent on the civil unrest, to our lifetime neighbour, Syria. An unrest in Syria, which is rather familiar among Lebanese whom had to traverse a 10-year demographical upheaval and civil war for us, as Lebanese, to realise how to finally live […]