Whereas article one in the document says that uh the United States would guarantee the territorial integrity of Lebanon which I'm everybody would realize would mean Israel is is violating the territorial integrity of Lebanon. It's not ensuring it. So that would mean Israel can't be locked in there and still be faithful to Article One. So the framework agreement
Lebanon which I'm everybody would realize would mean Israel is is violating the territorial integrity of Lebanon. It's not ensuring it. So that would mean Israel can't be locked in there and still be faithful to Article One. So the framework agreement immediately violates article one. The second thing that happened and this happened shortly after the framework accord is President Trump started to
So, you think the United States is going to put ground troops in, Iran are going to resist, and then chaos is going to break out in the United Lebanon, Hezbollah, including here in Yemen, the Houthis, and of course in
Oh my god. Favorite Arab country to visit? Lebanon. Ooh. OK. Most toxic trait? OK, it's not a toxic trait and I know you said no context, but I believe deep down, even though I've never experienced anything
Anissa is the author of numerous award-winning cookbooks, including "Feast-- Food of the Islamic World," "Sweet Middle East," "Levant," "Lebanese Cuisine," and many more. She was listed in 2013 in the "Arabian Business" magazine as one of the 100 most influential Arab women, as well as on the 500 most influential Arabs.
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I flew to the Moon not so much to go there, but as part of developing the system that would allow it to happen." Lebanon, Ohio, which is a little town north of Cincinnati.
they're some of the most motivated people I've ever met. Lebanon has also a huge number of refugees.
And this isn't something you'll learn on the Kiva website or in any of Kiva's literature, or whatever. Lebanon-- and things are getting bad in Syria right now.
um makes you know its way to the menu in some aspect. Uh what what we do at Lebanon then Michael is very autonom. He has a he has he's working with his team and and they do their things in past three. But for the kitchen what we have done, we have done um with the sue chefs a group that we meet two three times a
years, since Overit Younan helped achieve a moratorium on capital punishment. In Lebanon, uh we succeeded through sensitization, through spreading the culture, through discussion with people, because they didn't have this experience to discuss
in a better condition in Lebanon so that the joy would be stronger. Because Lebanon is in a war with a death toll by thousands since last March. But we cannot we cannot we cannot not to be happy
And I said, absolutely not. In Lebanon and Syria and Palestine, they cook seasonally. And it's only because of the current things that we're dealing with, whether it be climate change or war or occupation, that we're not able to access
And her purpose for writing it, despite her being an art consultant, was to record her mother's recipes, not only for herself, but for the younger generation of Lebanese who had been displaced by the war and at risk of losing their culinary heritage. Since then, she has concentrated her work on preserving Middle Eastern culinary lore, expanding her horizon in her ninth cookbook, which is now
And so for people to be able to reproduce their own food, young Lebanese people, to reproduce their own food the way their mother cooked it, No Lebanese restaurant has shish barak on the menu.
Favorite foods? I'm a big sucker for Lebanese OK, so question number two, Lebanese or Italian food? Definitely Lebanese food. Favorite Google product? Definitely Google Docs. Otherwise, we wouldn't be having this.
88% of the world's refugees are in poor or lower middle income countries. So Lebanon has 1 and 1/2 million refugees. Jordan has probably 800,000 refugees.
But on the up side, I don't think you have the cedar revolution in Lebanon without the flattening of the world. The Lebanese were sitting there, they watched exactly what happened in Georgia, exactly what happened in Ukraine, and said, wait a minute, if these guys can do that, why can't we?
And then we couldn't feel secure anymore. In Lebanon, at the moment, we've got an increase of about 20%, 25%-- depends which statistics you're looking at.
what Lebanese Cuisine was what Egyptian Cuisine was what Le ocean Cuisine was and we would educate ourselves as much
in Lebanon, in Afghanistan, Pakistan-- we need to support him.
In Lebanon, we tried a number of things to cut through to people in completely different ways.
at Lebanon it's where I have the most fun it's where I can be creative it's
a temporary shutdown of the Red Sea. And we lost essentially. Um so we couldn't beat them. But the big one that was at issue was uh Lebanon. And it's and my point is it's not so much that they love Hezbollah. They do of course they've had long time uh decades of relationships with Hezbollah ideologically. There's
could attack Lebanon. Uh they could do all these things. Of course they the 67
the war in Lebanon with Hezbollah, the war with Iran. And that because the
Something big happened in Lebanon this month. You probably didn't hear about. The country became the first in the Middle East to completely abolish the death penalty.
to abolish this penalty, but they will not stop the process. Some politicians in Lebanon also pointed to Israel, which just expanded its death penalty. Israel's civilian courts only ever executed one person, Nazi official Adolf Eichmann, in 1962.
So what happens next? Will other countries follow Lebanon's example and get rid of the death penalty? I think Lebanon will be a model for the region like positive condition, I think.
I come from Lebanon.
My first memory of Lebanon is-- actually my first memory outside Jerusalem-- I grew up some years in Jaffa, on the port city of Palestine.
And as I was listening to them, I was thinking, there isn't a Lebanese cookbook that is user-friendly for those who don't know the cuisine. Then the Lebanese friend immediately said, oh, you know there is the bible by Rayess. To be honest, I didn't even know Rayess then.
And the reason why this book was successful was because a lot of people could cook from it, reproduce the recipes, without having been to Lebanon, without knowing Lebanese food, to a standard that was totally authentic. It doesn't tell them, just get the meat out of the freezer.
being where the sun rises. And it's Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Palestine, Turkey, even bits of Greece, but the Balkans mostly. And so even though each country has a different cuisine, you have the same dishes, but cooked differently,
And so for people to be able to reproduce their own food, young Lebanese people, to reproduce their own food the way their mother cooked it, But whenever I invite Lebanese people to lunch or dinner for a Lebanese meal in my house-- and I'm a good cook.
And so for people to be able to reproduce their own food, young Lebanese people, to reproduce their own food the way their mother cooked it, I'm taking Lebanon as an example, but we can-- Italy could be another example, China, whatever, wherever food culture is very strong.
And so for people to be able to reproduce their own food, young Lebanese people, to reproduce their own food the way their mother cooked it, And in Lebanon, of course, shawarma and ..
And so for people to be able to reproduce their own food, young Lebanese people, to reproduce their own food the way their mother cooked it, What's your favorite Lebanese dish?
I had to leave Montreal. And I went to Lebanon and spent a year with him really in and out of hospitals and dealing with that. I'd never lived in Lebanon, so it was kind of a very-- But you're Lebanese.
But the second Lebanon War abruptly broke out, and we had to shelter in place, so to speak, in Jerusalem for a long while.
The wars in the Congo have been effectively going on for 30 or 40 years. The outlier is the Lebanese Civil War, which lasted 15 years but then ended in 1990. And frankly, Lebanon is as good as it gets for restoring fragile peace.
I saw Lebanon. This is the north side of Israel.
I saw Lebanon, Beirut.
And my father is Lebanese-American, first generation.
And I'm Lebanese, like Yazbek.
And a lot of Lebanese will see their films.
if these guys can do that, why can't we? And in talking to Lebanese friends, they made that very clear. They were watching all of this play out on satellite.
or Thailand or Lebanon, Syria.
countries which were Lebanon Jordan Algeria Tunisia and Morocco and um I uh learned an
like Jordan and Lebanon, and these children are without school.