Jeha
Lebanon Explodes Again
Hezbollah may look like it is trying to take over Lebanon, but the truth is that such a victory isn't in anyone's interest — even its own. Here's why.
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February is Lebanon’s Cruelest Month
PJM Beirut: Lebanon's bubbling "sectarian brew" is once again creating stress that is too large for its small country to withstand and too volatile for her neighbours to handle. Jeha is worried.
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Lebanon Without a President: A ‘State of No-Urgency’
PJM Beirut: The bad news is that Lebanese parliament has once again failed to elect a president and the country is in limbo after the incumbent president has quit. The good news, according to Jeha, is that the chaos is still limited to the political realm and no shots have been fired. Lebanon's fragile democracy is hanging on - for now.
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Lebanon’s Presidential Yo-Yo
PJM Beirut: The Lebanese parliament has been dragging their feet on choosing their next president. Officially, they can't do it much longer - the constitutional deadline is November 21. But Jeha writes that he wouldn't bet on a clear decision happening even then.
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Who Will Elect Lebanon’s President? Not the Lebanese
PJM Beirut: The selection of a new president by the Lebanese parliament has - again - been postponed. Jeha writes that for the average Lebanese, "the election drama is nothing but a fight between marionettes in which we have little say." That's life in a country stuck next door to "a Syrian regime threatened by our freedom, and an Iranian theocracy insulted by our secular ambitions."
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| SPACE: Hoping to Set Sail on Sunlight. “The Planetary Society, a nonprofit that promotes space exploration, announced Monday that it would send the first of two small craft testing the technology of solar sails into orbit this May, tagging along with other small satellites on an Atlas 5 rocket. . . . When photons — particles of light — bounce off a shiny surface, they impart a tiny bit of momentum, an effect that comes directly from the equations of electromagnetism published by the physicist James Clerk Maxwell in the 1860s. In his 1865 novel, ‘From the Earth to the Moon,’ Jules Verne appears to have been the first to realize that this force could be harnessed for space travel. The bombardment of sunlight over a large area can gradually but continuously accelerate a spacecraft.” ... |