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Discover Lebanon

See the land and people (photos)

• The Shore
• Lebanese architecture
• The marks of Antiquity
• Historical beauties
• The death and rebirth of a city
• Villages today
• The Mountain
• Lebanon the Green
• Crafts and traditions
• The Plain
  • Youmna Jazzar Medlej

Hear all there is to hear (facts and articles)

• The National Anthem
• Frequently Asked Questions about Lebanon
  • FAQ for those considering traveling or moving there
• Lebanese history
• The Phoenicians
  • The birth of the Alphabet
  • The Sarcophagus of Ahiram
  • Child sacrifice: an unfounded lie
  • Pythagoras and Hiram: Two Phoenicians at the heart of Freemasonry
• Lebanese proverbs, sayings and expressions
• Society and culture
  • To touch or not to touch
  • Flying elephants and other ways of speaking funny
  • Your guide to cursing and abuse
  • "Don't present in 3 languages!" or the question of language in Lebanon
  • Souk, soap and scents
  • Strange things we eat
  • Driving in Lebanon
  • Coincidences à la Lebanese
  • Talking with the hand (and head, and face...)
  • What is life like in Beirut?
  • Beirut buses or how to commute with style
  • Old Mercedes retire in Beirut
  • The matrix of names in Lebanon

Taste the culture (things to take home)

• Recipes
• Jokes
• The Lebanese Language
  • 1. Pronunciation guide
  • 2. Word order
  • 3. The Noun
  • 4. The Article
  • 5. Demonstratives
  • 6. Pronouns
  • 7. Possessives
  • 8. Relatives
  • 9. Adjectives (in progress)
  • 10. Comparative and Superlative
  • 11. Interrogation
  • 12. Exclamation and Interjection
  • 13. Numbers
  • 14. Indefinition and Negation (in progress)
  • 15. Adverbs (in progress)
  • 16. Prepositions
  • 17. Conjunctions (in progress)
  • 18. The Verb
  • 19. A few locutions
  • 20. Solutions to the exercises
  • Frequently used words
  • "Libanismes" in French
  • Lebanized Western words
  • Lexical differences with Arabic
  • Lexicon: Basic lists
  • Lexicon: Nouns
  • Lexicon: Adjectives
  • Lexicon: Verbs
• Seedlings! shop
• Lebanon downloads
• Lebanon links
• Bibliography and recommended reads
  

Air: Realm of the Mind

Articles

• Art in your Pocket: ATC
• Jana Eid: Finding oneself through Colour
• Tilemaking: An unusually successful retirement occupation
• Nizar Sabour: A personal reflexion on religious imagery
• Lara Baladi, Joumana Jamhouri: Two photographers
• Fulvio Codsi: Histoires à dormir debout
• Joseph El Khoury: Conceptual industrial design for Lebanon
• George Merheb: A constantly reinvented iconic language
• L'Artisan du Liban: Design in the service of a social and cultural mission
• Janine Rubeiz and Dar el Fan: Reminiscence of a golden era
• Joanna Seikaly: Soft cubism
• Nabil Ghandour: Turning pigments into light
• Jean-Luc Fournier: "Il n'y a pas que des cèdres au Liban"
• Flavia Codsi: The intensity of studied hyper-realism
• Chawki Daou: Archaeology and jewelry design brought together
• Seta Manoukian: Art from deep within

• The monotheism of Ancient Egypt
• Egyptian Amulets
• Gemstones in folklore
• Jade and the Chinese
• A (sharp) look at Reiki symbols

• Setting facts straight about Egypt
• Ethiopian mass brings together expatriate community

• Dr Antoine Harb: Lebanon, A Name Through 4000 Years
• For God and King: Vendée 1793
• Today's calendars tell Ancient history
• The archaeological site of Yanouh

• The Arabic verb and Barbapapa
• The Korat island's hybrid writing system

• Sign, symbol, semiotics... what the??
• Do you speak Convention?
• The notion of meaning
• Thinking in tongues
• Talin Der Grigorian: a postmodern approach to the use of symbolism in Armenia.

• The Tao in Taiji Quan (external link)
• Avedis Seropian: Raising Lebanon's profile the World Wu Shu Championship

• Oumnia: Caring for children in hospitals
• Antonia Kanaan: A "super tour guide" for Lebanon
• Classes Oranges: Customized teaching for "in-between" kids
• Hamid Ben Mahi: French hip-hop at its most innovative

• Prof. Georges Tohme: The current state of the flora in Lebanon
• The extraordinary intelligence of elephants

• Writing papers that set a standard

Names

• Name articles: Issues of names and naming
  • Movements of names
  • To give a name
  • Name avoidance
  • Temporary names
  • Change of name
  • Names and gender
  • Family names
• Arabic, Turkish and Persian names
• Names of Hebrew, Phoenician and Aramaic origin
• Names of Greek origin
• Names of Latin origin
• Names of French origin
• Names of Spanish, Basque and Portuguese origins
• Names of Italian origin
• Names of Germanic, Old English, Saxon origins
• Names of Celtic, Gaelic, Welsh, Cornish origin
• Scandinavian names
• Slavic and East European names
• Western names coined from or based on words
• American Indian names
• Hawaiian names
• Japanese names
• Chinese Names
• Indian names (Hindi, Sanskrit, Tamil...)
• Nigeria names (Igbo, Hausa, Yoruba, Benin)
• Ghana names (Twi, Fante, Ewe, Akan)
• Bantu names (Swahili, Zulu...)
• Other names from Africa
• Unidentified (names I need help with)

The Author

Writings

• The Choice
• The Shield of Ignorance

Travel diaries

• Egypt, February 1998
  • 2. Deir-el-Bahri, Karnak and Luxor.
  • 3. Esna and Edfu.
  • 4. The Nile, Kom Ombo and Aswan.
  • 5. Abu Simbel and Philae.
  • 6. The Cairo Museum and Giza.
  • The world shaping Egyptian beliefs.

• Italy, September 1998 & April 2003
  • 2. Venice specialties: Masks and architecture.
  • 3. Sienna the lovely.
  • 4. Florence and its Duomo.
  • 5. Intermezzo: pigeons of Italy.
  • 6. Discovering Rome.
  • 7. Back to ancient roots.
  • 8. From the Vatican to the country.
  • The Contrade and Palio of Siena.
  • Brunelleschi and Santa Maria del Fiore.
  • Alberti's Conformità.

• Australia, September 1999
  • 2. Walhalla excitement.
  • 3. Road to Adelaide.
  • 4. Gorge Zoo koalas.
  • 5. Adelaide and Monarto.
  • 6. Getting bogged in Maize.
  • 7. Ballarat and Sovereign Hill.
  • 8. More Sovereign Hill.
  • 9. Fairy Penguins of Phillip Island.

• Japan, Summer 2000
  • 2. Futuristic Shibuya and Shinjuku.
  • 3. Museums and the subway.
  • 4. The Temples of Asakusa.
  • 5. Ueno.
  • 6. Zazen retreat in Shizuoka.
  • 7. More temples in Kamakura.
  • 8. The splendor of Nikko.
  • 9. Ninjas in Edo Mura.
  • 10. Climbing Takao-san and my last days.
  • Japanese lifestyle.
  • Japanese paper and its uses.
  • Similarities in language between Lebanon and Japan.

• Barbados, May 2003
  • 2. Diving the Caribbean.
  • 3. Bridgetown and Folkstone.
  • 4. The Island Center.
  • 5. Last adventures.
  • Bajan Observations.

• Moscow, September 2004
  • 2. The Red Square and Kitai Gorod.
  • 3. Around Christ the Saviour.
  • 4. Decorative Arts all round.
  • 5. The Kremlin.
  • 6. Wushu adventures and the Tretiakov Gallery.

• Laos, November-December 2005
  • 2. Luang Prabang, the jewel city.
  • 3. Hilltribes, monks and aspiring artists.
  • 4. New Year with the Hmong.