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Lebanese singer and composer Melhem Barakat dies after illness

29 October 2016

BEIRUT: Renowned Lebanese singer and composer Melhem Barakat passed away Friday at the age of 71 after a battle with cancer. Barakat is the father of four children including Majed, Waed and Ghinwa from his ex-wife Randa Azar and Melhem Jr. from his second marriage […]

FPM to Mark October 13, 1990

16 October 2016

The Free Patriotic Movement will commemorate next month the ouster of its founder MP Michel Aoun on October 13, 1990 on the Presidential Palace road in Baabda, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Friday. The FPM will mark the occasion on Sunday, October 16, FPM sources told […]

Nixon Library opening ceremony for re-imagined galleries draws dignitaries, crowds

15 October 2016

YORBA LINDA – A year in the making, the Richard Nixon Presidential Library & Museum has been reborn. And so too, perhaps, has its legacy: from staid and stodgy to hip and incisive. The presidential library is, its patrons and officials hope, ready to engage […]

Bassil, Bou Saab lay wreath on martyrs monument in Hadat

14 October 2016

NNA – FPM leader, Minister of Foreign Affairs Gebran Bassil, accompanied by Minister of Education and Higher Learning, Elias Bou Saab, laid a wreath on the martyrs monument in the town of Hadat on the occasion of October 13, in the presence of Baabda MPs […]

Foreign Ministry offers condolences on Italy’s earthquake victims

27 August 2016

NNA – Foreign and Expatriates Ministry expressed in a statement on Friday its “sincere condolences and sympathy to the Italian Republic, government and people, on the victims of the earthquake that hit the Lazio region in central Italy, which claimed the lives of many innocent […]

Lebanese singer dies at 77 from throat cancer

23 August 2016

BEIRUT: Famed Lebanese singer and actor Samir Yazbek passed away Monday at age 77 after a two-year battle with throat cancer. Yazbek lost his voice after he was diagnosed with lung cancer years ago, but his songs remained in the hearts of many who loved […]

AUB marks 100 years since the passing of its visionary founder

21 August 2016

BEIRUT: This week marks the centenary of the passing of AUB founder Dr. Daniel Bliss, who left a legacy of 60 years of service to education in Lebanon. By the time of his death in 1916, the elderly Dr. Bliss had accomplished a remarkable set […]

AUB mourns former Dean Thomas Sutherland

3 August 2016

NNA – The American University of Beirut (AUB) mourns the passing away of former Dean, Dr. Thomas Sutherland, who passed away Friday night in Colorado, USA at age 85. Sutherland served as Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture and Food Sciences at AUB from 1983 […]