Lebanon

Lebanon (Arabic: لبنان Lubnān), officially the Lebanese Republic (Arabic: الجمهورية اللبنانية), is a small, largely mountainous country in the Middle East, located at the eastern edge of the Mediterranean Sea. Due to its sectarian diversity, Lebanon follows a special political system known as confessionalism, meant to distribute power as evenly as possible among different sects.^[1] The country enjoyed relative calm and prosperity, driven by the tourism, agriculture, and banking sectors of the economy,^[2] until the onset of wars beginning with the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990) and continuing through recent conflicts like the 2006 Lebanon War.

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QuotesEdit

Darweesh: Why were they late until they killed him?
[Both laugh.]
Off-Screen Man: We are not gloaters.
Darweesh: It's not gloating, but we're tired of this. There's still Ahmed Fatfat, I'm counting them.
Off-Screen Man: We still need … four, five.
- Conversation between news anchor Darweesh and an off-screen man during a 13 June 2007 news broadcast on "the NBN channel of pro-Syrian Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri", reporting on the bombing death of anti-Syrian Lebanese lawmaker Walid Eido
- "Lebanon minister sues TV anchor over on-air gaffe". Reuters. 15 June 2007. Retrieved on 2007-06-15.
- "Lebanon minister sues TV anchor over on-air gaffe". Middle East Online. 15 June 2007. Retrieved on 2007-06-15.