Who pockets the tips in our restaurants? And will prices go up further as a consequence? <> theguardian.com/business/2024/…

"Le romancier Elias Khoury, auteur du chef-d’œuvre La Porte du soleil, s’est éteint à Beyrouth. Si Orient XXI s’est souvent fait le relais de ses œuvres, l’hommage qui lui est ici rendu par Z. Majed met l’accent sur l’intellectuel engagé qu’il était". orientxxi.info/lu-vu-entendu/…

Exactement.

My latest 'Digital Bubble' focuses narrowly on what's happening in the MENA region today & the prism of "Middle East Analysis" that is presented & produced by James Abbott via Middle East Analysis . Part cri de coeur, part information, & part my frustration at regional inequities.

I share my latest 'Digital Bubble' w/ few associates as an expression of concern + consternation. The MENA region is on the ropes, & this doesn't augur well, except for those w/ their own agendas ~ Premier Christian News ICN Church Times The Tablet World Council of Churches (WCC) Embrace the Middle East .

For Pope Francis, talking about Gaza and Lebanon,proportionality is not only a priciple in international humanitarian law, but an ethical issue.The legal and ethical are intertwined,as Israel persistently disregard proportionality and distinction between combattants and civilians

Political prisoner, writer and activist Alaa Abd El Fattah was due to be released on September 29, after serving five years in detention. Instead, he is set to spend another two years in prison, his lawyer Khaled Ali said on Sunday. Authorities have refused to consider the two

Pope Francis suggests Israel's actions in Gaza and Lebanon are disproportionate and immoral apnews.com/article/pope-i…

Asked about Israel’s bombing of Lebanon, Pope Francis said “When there is something disproportionate, there is a dominating tendency that goes beyond morality…A country that does these things…these are immoral actions." cbsnews.com/news/pope-fran…

L'analyse de Karim Emile Bitar du collectif Chronik : "Aujourd'hui , ce sont les "zinzins qui contrôlent l'asile " , en #Israel les messianistes , les racialistes et les suprémacistes sont en train de donner le la , alors que le camp de la paix s’est réduit comme peau de chagrin"

Efforts at the UN to combat anti-microbial resistance (AMR) - by Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus , D-G of the World Health Organization (WHO) : aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/…

What happened, and what are the implications let alone consequences? > Spot analysis by Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center scholars via Michael Young : carnegieendowment.org/middle-east/di…

Some of you tweeps might've spotted the Jordanian Deputy PM & FM Ayman Safadi speak in clear, challenging & peaceful terms about Israeli goals in the region. So how is Jordan faring by the wars in Gaza & Lebanon? > Here’s Lamis Andoni via The New Arab : newarab.com/opinion/how-is…

Much as it isn't really my place to say it, I apologise nonetheless to all my friends who contacted me ex post facto to say that they somehow hadn't located the link to my Armenian talk via Armenian Institute last week. Never mind, here's the YouTube link: youtube.com/watch?v=Txj9Q-…

I'd argue that the written & spoken words r vital in a world of adumbrated social media posts! So here's my latest 'Digital Bubble': no pretence to do hardcore politics here; I solely highlight/reflect what goes vs my grain as a faith-oriented person who "gets" the MENA region.

A pertinent answer by the Jordanian FM to the Q about UNRWA in the oPt: it is International law, not Israel, that decides UNRWA's mandate. The presumption that an occupying power can decide what it accepts or rejects under IL is frankly unsettling <> youtu.be/FECy9TanLuk?si…

Alors qu'au Liban les frappes israéliennes continuent de tuer chrétiens et musulmans sans distinction, les familles chrétiennes de Batroun prient pour la paix, devant l’église maronite Saint-Etienne.

Lebanon 🇱🇧, u r in my thoughts tonite: may Our Lady of Harissa watch over u.