Posted By
Najib
Nov 26, 2016 05:13
Lighting up the Christmas tree is becoming a nice tradition at City Centre Beirut. Last year, I couldn't make it but I made sure to attend yesterday and bring Baby Brian along. The event was scheduled at 7 but people started gathering on all City Centre levels around 6:30 PM, then Minister Alain Hakim and Anabella Helal showed up to push the countdown buzzer and light up the tree amid Christmas chants by a small…
Posted By
Najib
Nov 26, 2016 02:34
Bashir Gemayel was assassinated on September 14th 1982 when a bomb exploded in the Beirut Kataeb HQ in Achrafieh. He was only 34 years old and had just been elected President of the Lebanese Republic. A member of the Syrian Socialist National Party called Habib Shartouni was charged with the assassination at the time but he escaped prison in 1990 and no one knows his whereabouts ever since. On Friday and after 34 years, Lebanon's…
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