According to Forbes, three Lebanese are among the top 10 rich Arabs for this year. Joseph Safra, a Lebanese Brazilian banker, came in the 2nd position with $19.5 billion, while Najib & Taha Mikati ranked 8th with $3.5 billion each.
On the other hand, the wealthiest member of the Hariri’s is Bahaa Hariri who ranked 15th with $2.4 billion. You can check the full list below.
via Emirates 24/7
God forbid!
I just noticed Elnashra has published some classified communications between the interior miniter Marwan Charbel and prime minister Najib Mikati showing the data the Information Branch has requested following the assassination of General Wissam El Hassan.
In all of those documents the Information Branch is requesting the below types of data from the two mobile operators in Lebanon (Alfa and Touch), while there’s no mention of any ISP such as Cyberia, IDM, and the alike.
So unlike what has been circulating in the past few days, and judging from the content of these communications, the Information Branch is only interested in data logged by mobile operators and not ISPs. In addition, there was no explicit interest in obtaining Facebook credentials as the media was reporting.
Anyway I still find it disturbing to know that mobile operators might not be only keeping track of visited websites, but also of submitted information, e-mails, chat sessions, and even VoIP calls recordings! And it seems like they’re really doing so since the telecommunications minister never claimed those records do not exist and instead is just rejecting the Information Branch’s requests.
P.S: I found it weird that some communications were dated August 18th 2012, and got received by the office of the prime minister on the same day, even though they’re requesting data from the period starting September 13th 2012 and ending November 10th 2012. It’s like asking for data from the future!
Wissam El Hassan’s funeral started at the ISF headquarter in Achrafieh at around 2PM today and unfortunately ended violently as the protesters in downtown attempted to storm the Grand Serail to demand the resignation of PM Najib Mikati.
Below are some photos and a video from the funeral and the clash between the protesters and the policemen. (I found photo #9 quite funny by the way!)
After a meeting between our prime minister Najib Mikati and Georgia’s prime pinister Nika Gilauri, it was announced yesterday that visa restrictions will be lifted on Lebanese willing to visit Georgia, but it wasn’t mentioned when will this decision take effect.
So now we can add Georgia to the following list of countries where Lebanese can go without the need of a visa approval.
Africa
Americas
Asia
Europe
Oceania
Photo from Bab Al-Tabbaneh, Tripoli. Tens of posters covering the buildings of the area…
In my humble opinion, it’s a visual pollution!
