Plane crashes off Beirut coast
An Ethiopian Airlines flight crashed into the Mediterranean Sea just minutes after taking off in Beirut early this morning. Ninety people (including seven crew) were aboard the flight bound for Addis Ababa that included 54 Lebanese and 22 Ethiopians as well as passengers of other nationalities. Early reports indicate that most of the Lebanese passengers [...]
Suicide in Lebanon
Theresa Seda fell to her death from a 7th floor balcony across the street from my home.
Change will come to Egypt
There is an energy and a general optimism among much of Egypt’s workforce unlike I’ve seen anywhere else. Ask most Egyptians, they will tell you that change will come, it has to. Many others are too used to their US-backed Hosni Mubarak who has ruled for nearly three decades to think that things could ever [...]