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The Swiss newspaper Le Temps uncovered new documents, which L’Orient-Le Jour reviewed, shedding light on Anna Kosakova, a key figure in BDL Gov. Riad Salameh’s circles who assumed an important role in acquiring real estate in Paris L’Orient-Le Jour / By Nada MAUCOURANT ATALLAH Le […]

(Beirut) 12 August 2020, on Thursday former warlord Nabih Berri (who remains Lebanon’s speaker Speaker of parliament Parliament since 1992) scheduled an extraordinary session to transfer prerogatives of investigate Judge Tarek Bitar to the Higher Council for the Trial of Presidents and Ministers. The Higher […]

As the sheer scale of Lebanon’s meltdown continues to be absorbed by its people, some are starting to confront an unpalatable view that the state’s very foundations were flawed at each of its incarnations. From the Ottoman empire to French mandate, Syrian tutelage, the ravages […]