Lahoud declared a state of emergency, so I guess the army now controls the country, any idea what is gonna happen after this?
Here’s the declaration in arabic:

صدر عن الامانة العامة لرئاسة الجمهورية
ان رئيس الجمهورية بناءاً على الدستور المادتين 49 و 50 مرسوم اشتراعي 102 / 83
المدتين الاولى والثانية
وبناءاً على المرسوم الاشتراعي 52 اعلان حالة الطوارئ [...]

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A Blogger collected the facebook gender stats of the top countries using facebook and published them on his blog. Since Facebook is the most visited website in Lebanon (Alexa stats) I was sure we were going to be on the list so I checked it out and it turns out we are the 21st country [...]

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The army didn’t organize a parade for the second year in row due to political and security reasons but apparently this year Offre Joie organized one to celebrate independence day, I just found this picture of the parade on BBC’s Day in pictures but couldn’t get any more info about it.

Soldiers provide security for [...]

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Yesterday night Lahoud gave his last speech, unfortunately I was only able to watch the start of it but one thing that caught my attention is him saying he will not be able to tell us all what he managed to do during his time in office so I’ll give him some help in this [...]

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That’s why every European foreign minister/ President/Prime Minister is calling Damascus so a President could be elected in Lebanon!
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I just found out that in 1921 a meteorite fell on Beirut, I did a little research about it and here’s what I got:

It fell on the last day of 1921 (12-31-1921) so I guess some people thought the world was ending :P
It weights 1.1 Kg
Its Official name is Beyrout
It’s one of 17 meteorites classified [...]

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Just offer them some water…

More pictures 
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Panorama.dk has two nice 360 degrees panoramas taken on the 14th of March 2005 during the biggest demonstration in Lebanon’s history. The first panorama was taken near An Nahar building and you can only go sideways in it, The second one was taken from the historical ruins that are in the middle of the martyrs [...]

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France 5 broadcasted yesterday a 52 minutes documentary about the Gemayel Family and its martyrs. The documentary is in French and I think everyone should watch it because whether you agree with them politically or not, you can’t deny that they played a big role in Lebanon’s history.

From Ouwet.com
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I am currently starting to doubt more and more that the politicians and the countries that control them will agree on a president in the next couple of days. But if they do I hope one of those guys don’t become our president for the next 6 years:
-Amine Gemayel, Well we already tried him, that’s [...]

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