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You ask a lot of questions at the same time. Maybe you need to hire someone to gather and present all this info for you. This little free forum is not an information company or a state agency. Here are some partial answers to some of your questions :wink:

* In Lebanon, DSL became available only a ...

Lebanon Cracks Down on Internet Freedom
By JOSH WOOD

Published: November 3, 2010
Source: http://www.nytimes.com

BEIRUT — Two officers from the Mukhabarat military intelligence came for the blogger Khodor Salameh one midnight in March, soon after he had written articles critical of the president ...

Slow internet driving foreign companies away from Lebanon
By Dana Halawi
Daily Star staff
Friday, July 17, 2009

Slow internet driving foreign companies away from Lebanon

BEIRUT: Many foreign investors are reluctant to establish businesses in Lebanon due to low speed of broadband connectivity ...

source: http://www.naharnet.com/domino/tn/NewsDesk.nsf/getstory?openform&6035FBDA4CC662E8C22575EC00197CF2

Beirut, 07 Jul 09, 07:45

Parachute-like objects lit up the sky above southern Lebanon overnight in what appeared to be a new Israeli spy method.

Security reports said a "shining object ...

When will the Internet get up to speed in Lebanon?
By Will Donovan
Source: The Daily Star
Beirut on Monday, November 24, 2008

Amid rave reviews and the glow of high-definition television screens as far as the eye could see, the 13th edition of the Levant's Information Technology Exhibition at the ...

This post was started on Dec. 2003. Today we're in Nov. 2008. Five years later.

After five (5) years, UNLIMITED high speed internet is still NOT available in Lebanon for a DECENT price and the country is the one of the worst place in the world on this particular subject.

This country could have ...

Daily Star staff
Beirut / Thursday, March 27, 2008

It's official: 'Persepolis' won't screen in Lebanon

Officials with the Lebanese Interior Ministry's General Security department have confirmed that the film "Persepolis" has indeed been banned in this country. Speaking to AFP on Wednesday, the ...

Study underlines opposing views on gender roles in Lebanon
Women more likely than men to reject traditional social norms

Daily Star staff
Saturday, December 29, 2007
Beirut

A newly published study on identity and gender roles among Lebanese youth revealed that while young women showed a more ...

One man's filth is another's tour de force

'How Free Is Art?' symposium in Beirut stirs up passionate if sometimes unfocused declamation and debate

By Jim Quilty
Daily Star staff
Thursday, November 15, 2007


BEIRUT: Censorship is one of those topics that never seems to go stale. It occupies ...

Syria jails rights activist for 12 years for 'encouraging' US to attack country
Verdict harshest sentence against opposition member during bashar assad's rule

Source: AFP / Compiled by Daily Star
Friday, May 11, 2007

Syrian dissident Kamal Labwani was jailed for 12 years Thursday, in the ...

Nice feedback! It's an excellent summary of "internet in Lebanon"...

I am on a sort of illegal cable for less than 50$, I get a 128k (symetrical!), and it works very well for what it is... I can't tell more about it because it is "illegal" houha... & with that, I am suppose to consider myself as a ...

Travel+Leisure World's Best Awards
Mon Jul 31, 10:31 AM ET

NEW YORK - Florence, Italy, has replaced Sydney, Australia, as the No. 1 city in the world for travelers, according to Travel+Leisure's annual "World's Best" awards.

The list of award-winners is based on an annual survey of 23,000 ...

I don't think it is serious to assume that Israel is a SELFISH and HUNGRY MACHINE who wants to eat ALL of the Middle-East. This is a typical anti-jewish attitude that pretends the jews want to control the World... I think this is the case with ARABISM and now ISLAMISM... But not Zionism... which has ...

Monday, July 24, 2006
Israeli bombardment leaves telecom infrastructure in tatters

By Osama Habib
Daily Star staff - dailystar.com.lb

BEIRUT: Lebanon's mobile networks and satellite antennas are being targeted by Israeli warplanes, causing at least $10 to $15 million in material damage and ...