(This is a continuation post of “ Nostradamus of the Middle East” ) Below is the list of the 2011 predictions of Michel Hayek, which I h...

A month ago I launched a new segment on Free Thinking Lebanon, writing about Fatwas issued by Muslim scholars in the Arab world. Seven posts...

Could this be my first positive post ever on this blog? Probably! I’m not pessimistic, I’m just realistic; and the way things were going on ...

Every New Year’s Eve, Michel Hayek a.k.a. Nostradamus of the Middle East , fools millions of superstitious Lebanese—many of whom are livi...

I learned some very worrying news today about the current situation in Tripoli. Violent clashes , between the two regions of Bab-al-Tabani a...

I know this is an out of subject post but a few days ago I read a post on Atheist Revolution , reviewing the application Dropbox, and I tho...

You don’t need to be a political analyst— and definitely not a clairvoyant —in order to “foretell” that Lebanon is moving into a major polit...

A couple of days ago, while stuck in traffic—a daily activity we Lebanese have come to enjoy, my girlfriend and I were discussing how terrib...

For the past two weeks I’ve been jumping from one Lebanese skiing resort to another—between Faraya and the Cedars. On those occasions I got ...

On my way back from work, I switched on the radio and tuned in to Radio Orient , and what I heard blew me away, and I drove the whole way ba...