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Museum of the Dead

Baby chimp in formol We leave our friends to visit the building aside. Long alleys of arcades link the buildings with one another. I could close my eyes and imagine the times when those alleys where storming with busy people. Nowadays, the fainting yellow...

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28 juillet 2006

Chimps in Lwiro

On the dusty and bumpy road, it took us one hour to get there: The Lwiro Sanctuary. A huge complex of never-ending offices of different sections kept a gloomy feeling from its old glamorous days under colonial Congo. Officially know as CRSN (Centre de...

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27 juillet 2006

A Famous Psychic

This news comes from Associated Press. Since he predicted the murder of former Prime Minister Hariri and as well as Journalist Tuene, Michel Yayek, psychic, has become very famous in Lebanon (he actually gained notoriety when he predicted US space shuttle...

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26 juillet 2006

Elections in Congo

Let me share this news with you. Just shows how making Democratic Republic of Congo really democratic is not an easy affair. From Reuters. "Gunmen have killed up to seven people at an election rally in eastern Congo in an attack which revived fears that...

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24 juillet 2006

Countries visited - Pays visités

Okay, we ventured into the political arena those last days, and some readers did not like it much... That was simply our way of showing solidarity for those suffering at present in Lebanon. Anyways, let's go back to our favourite subject: travel. This...

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23 juillet 2006

The World is Flat

The World is Flat, A brief History of the Twenty First century, by Thomas Friedman This book is a superb introduction to globalization in our world today. You really cannot understand the 21st century without it. Thomas L. Friedman’s aim in The World...

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22 juillet 2006

Cartoons

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21 juillet 2006

A thought for Lebanon

“Pity the nation that is full of beliefs and empty of religion. Pity the nation that wears a cloth it does not weave, eats a bread it does not harvest, and drinks a wine that flows not from its own winepress. Pity the nation that acclaims the bully as...

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20 juillet 2006

A Pizza for Israel

We've received some comments that we were not impartial with what currently takes place in Lebanon. Hey, let us put this straight. That's correct, we're not impartial here. Our familiy, our country is being shelled, and the least we can say is that we're...

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19 juillet 2006

Palestine

Palestine by Joe Sacco Palestine is a story of the Israeli occupation told using the form of a graphic novel. Based on several months of research and an extended visit to the West Bank and Gaza Strip in the early 1990s (where he conducted over 100 interviews...

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