14-year old Abbas Hussein Yazbeck tried to commit suicide earlier today after failing his Brevet exam. Abbas shot himself in the head and was rushed to the hospital where he's still under intensive care. The father pointed at the Education Minister for exerting a lot of pressure on the students by deploying cameras and army men to monitor the exam rooms and asked him to resign. There's always a lot of pressure when it comes…

The Hadath Municipality Christians-only policy is not recent. In fact, it's nine years old and I'm surprised Mohammad Awwad, the 27-year old journalist who brought this issue back to the spotlight, didn't know about this policy when he decided to rent. Unless of course he knew about it and just wanted some attention, which worked out pretty well as the topic was covered by The Washington Post yesterday. When interviewed, the head of the Hadath…