iPhone app.
  • HOME
  • ABOUT
    • Mission
    • Intro to Khazen
  • DE KHAZEN
    • History
    • Members
    • Wakf
    • Documents
    • Relations
  • MEDIA
    • Pictures
    • Multimedia
    • Blogs
    • Social Media
  • MARONITES
    • Overview
    • 1858 Revolution
    • De Khazen
    • Maronites & Clergy
  • MEMBERS
    • Genealogical Tree
    • Members
  • ARCHIVE
    • Maronite News
  • CONTACT
Home - el Khazen Family Prince of Maronites : Lebanese Families Keserwan Lebanon

US diplomat: US-backed Lebanese opposition self-centered, narcissistic

Details

by news.middleeast-24.com -- Former US Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs David Schenker talks about the US role in accelerating the financial collapse in Lebanon, and Washington’s vision for the upcoming parliamentary elections. Former US Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs David Schenker Ahead of the parliamentary elections in Lebanon, the former US Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, David Schenker, made dangerous statements about the American role played by the administration of former President Donald Trump in the country in order to accelerate the financial collapse, and about the administration’s exploitation of the “October 17” movement in order to distort The image of Hezbollah and its weakening with its allies.

During a symposium conducted by the Washington Institute under the title “Hezbollah and Shiites Dynamics and Lebanon’s Elections: Challenges, Opportunities, and Political Implications,” Schenker stated that during the Trump era, his country “imposed sanctions on Hezbollah’s financial institutions and on the Jammal Bank, and proceeded to synchronize this immediately after the establishment of the Agency.” Moody’s credit rating downgrades Lebanon’s credit rating. He added, “We were the ones behind the decision to lower Lebanon’s credit rating, and the Trump administration was keen to synchronize the announcement of the downgrade with its imposition of sanctions on the Beauty Bank, which was imposed at that time the next day immediately.” He pointed out, in this context, that “Washington not only did this to this extent, but also imposed sanctions on Hezbollah’s ally, the head of the Free Patriotic Movement, Gebran Bassil.”

Read more ...

Lebanese activists launch mock ‘lollar’ currency to highlight corruption

Details

by AFP -- Lebanese activists on Friday rolled out mock banknotes featuring paintings of a gutted central bank or the Beirut port explosion to denounce high-level corruption that has helped to wreck the country. The dollars stuck in accounts that citizens can only withdraw in Lebanese pounds at a fraction of their original value are known locally as “lollars”. With parliamentary elections today, the Lebanese Transparency Association (LTA) decided to take the joke to the streets, with a stunt encouraging people to use “lollars” for the day.

The “monetary disobedience” campaign, entitled “Currency of Corruption”, encourages people to print their own “funny money” at home and try to use it as a means of raising awareness. “We will not adapt to this mockery anymore, we are #NotPayingThePrice,” the LTA said in a statement unveiling the campaign and its hashtag. The mock banknotes feature paintings by acclaimed Lebanon-based artist Tom Young depicting calamities that have hit Lebanon in recent years, from the deadly August 2020 port blast to forest fires, solid waste pollution and shortages.

On one of Beirut’s main squares on Friday, organisers installed a fake ATM from which passers-by could withdraw “lollars”. LTA communications officer Hazar Assi said the campaign was aimed at reminding voters that their current plight was to blame on the country’s corrupt hereditary leaders. “When people vote, they should make a choice based on accountability and rejecting the corruption that is affecting all of our lives,” she said. Lebanon’s traditional parties will seek to extend their stranglehold on power in parliamentary elections on Sunday but a new generation of independent candidates are hoping for a breakthrough.

Lebanese take their fight with a century-old political order to the ballot box

Details

By Tamara Qiblawi, CNN -- Beirut, Lebanon (CNN)The coastal highway that connects Lebanon's northern-most tip to the country's south is peppered with gaping potholes. The stench of landfill hangs in the air as emaciated men rummage through dumpsters, their faces smudged with dirt. Towering above the wreckage wrought by nearly three years of economic collapse are endless rows of election billboards. Some show relatively unfamiliar candidates fielded by new political groups. But most display the looming faces of politicians from decades-old sectarian parties. Nearly all of the campaign slogans promise "change." The irony is not lost on anyone in a country where negligence by the political elite nearly destroyed the capital in the biggest non-nuclear explosion in history.

Lebanon's soul has been eviscerated by its financial crisis. Not even the children want to play On Sunday, Lebanese citizens will vote for a new parliament for the first time since an October 2019 uprising demanded the fall of a century-old political order. The path to political change has been rife with challenges, and whether this year's election will deliver a new political makeup is far from certain. But this is a moment of reckoning for Lebanon's political elite. The establishment they represent is a microcosm of the region's decades-old fault lines, pitting groups backed by the archrivals Iran and Saudi Arabia against each other. Change in Beirut's political order could mark a first step in extricating the country from its hodgepodge of proxy conflicts, and produce a ripple effect in a region where protest movements have so far failed to effect political change.

Read more ...

Lebanon elections: Hezbollah and Amal court bitter and broke southerners

Details

By Heba Nasser in Sour, Lebanon -- middleeasteye.net -- The electoral aesthetic across south Lebanon is a glaring display of the deep-rooted dominance of Hezbollah and the Amal Movement. All along highways and side roads, the serene faces of Shia leaders and their candidates look on from posters as people drive deeper southward. “Your trust is our responsibility,” proclaims one slogan perched high at the entrance of Abbasiyeh, a town a handful of kilometres away from Lebanon's southern coast. There’s no question that the Shia heavyweight parties are predicted to win the majority of votes in south Lebanon on Sunday. But a lot has changed in the four years since Lebanon’s last elections: a popular uprising and catastrophic economic collapse, to name a few. That upheaval has led to rumblings of dissatisfaction across Hezbollah and Amal’s stronghold, and the parties themselves have taken notice.

Despite their assured electoral hold, for weeks now the parties have been contacting southern constituents - even those most loyal to them - to ensure that they will be voting on Sunday, in a push never seen previously. But like all parties that make up the oligarchy that has run Lebanon into the ground, they are increasingly associated with the country’s breakdown, and many in the south have started expressing disenchantment with the factions they have traditionally supported and repeatedly voted for. How that dissatisfaction is expressed is another matter. Lebanese voters have a habit of calling for change only to vote for their traditional parties when at the polling booth. Yet many southerners told Middle East Eye that faced with today’s corruption, stasis, and economic meltdown, they plan to boycott or cast blank ballots.

Read more ...

Minister Sejaan Azzi: كلُّ لبنان قلبُ لبنان

Details

 

سجعان قزي

@AzziSejean

 

أخيرًا بَقّهَا السيد حسن نصرالله: "الجنوبُ والبقاعُ والشمالُ وعكّار أطرافٌ تَـمَّ إلحاقُها بلبنانَ الكبير عامَ 1920" (09 أيار 2022). لكنَّ سماحتَه تناسى أمرين: الأوّل أنَّ هذه المناطقَ استُعيدَت ولم يَتِم السطوُ عليها وإلحاقُها بالقوّة بلبنان. والثاني، وهو سابقٌ ومُتمِّمٌ للأوّل: أنَّ المجلسَ التمثيليَّ اللبنانيَّ، المتعدِّدَ الطوائفِ المسيحيّةِ والإسلاميّةِ، اتّخذَ في أيّار 1919 قرارًا طالبَ به مؤتمرَ الصُلحِ المنعَقِدَ في باريس "الاعترافَ باستقلالِ لبنان في حدودِه الطبيعيّة".

إنَّ التشكيكَ بوِحدةِ الأمّةِ اللبنانيّة يُوحي بأنَّ الكِيانَ اللبنانيَّ مصطنَعٌ ومركَّبٌ وفاقدُ الشرعيّةِ التاريخيّة ومُحلَّلٌ تفكيكُه. نَفهم الآنَ أكثرَ لماذا يَرفضُ حزبُ الله وسوريا ترسيمَ الحدودِ اللبنانيّةِ/السوريّةِ وضبطَها. إذا كان الأمرُ كذلك، لِــمَ ولِمَن استُشِهدَ أطيبُ شبابِ الجنوبِ والبقاع؟ وما قيمةُ مقاومتِك، يا سيد حسن، لتحريرِ الجَنوب والبقاع الغربي؟ وما لكَ ولنا بعدُ بمزارعَ شِبعا وتِلالِ كفرشوبا؟ وما لكَ ولنا بمربّعاتِ النفطِ والغاز في بحرِ الجَنوب؟ أَرْجِعْ هذه المناطق إلى سوريا لتَتمتّع بربوعِ الشام ونسيمِ البِردَوْني، ودَعْ سوريا تُقاوم في سبيلِها مثلما قاومَت لاسترجاعِ الجولان.

Read more ...

لقاء الجمهورية دان اغتيال شيرين أبو عاقلة: على الأمم المتحدة معاقبة إسرائيل

Details

وطنية - دان "لقاء الجمهورية" في بيان، "جريمة اغتيال المراسلة الإعلامية في قناة الجزيرة الشهيدة شيرين أبو عاقلة عن سابق تصور وتصميم أثناء قيامها بواجبها المهني وتغطيتها الاقتحام الاسرائيلي لمخيم جنين". 

واعتبر ان "إسرائيل مسؤولة عن هذه الجريمة بما لا يقبل الجدل، وهذا اعتداء إسرائيلي على الجسم الاعلامي ككل، يجب ألّا يمر من دون تدخل الأمم المتحدة لردع إسرائيل ومحاسبتها وفقًا للقانون الدولي ومنعها من الاستخفاف بالقيام بجرائم حرب من دون حسيب أو رقيب".

وختم: "رحم الله شهيدة الإعلام الحر شيرين أبو عاقلة، وألهم أهلها والجسم الإعلامي الصبر والسلوان".

Lebanese poll hopefuls ‘buying their way to power’ with cash bribes

Details

By Najia Houssari -- arabnews.com -- BEIRUT: With Lebanon’s crucial parliamentary elections on Sunday expected to go down to the wire, candidates and party supporters have been accused of trying to buy their way to victory by offering cash bribes to undecided voters. A Shiite voter in Beirut’s second constituency told Arab News that he had been offered $300 if he and his family agreed to vote for a particular businessman. The man, who asked to be identified only as Mohammed, said: “Supporters campaigning for their parties call me every day to ask who I will be voting for. I have no idea how they got my number. Some offer ration cards, others money, to either vote for them, or even boycott the elections or cast a blank ballot.” Mohammed, who has no links with the Amal Movement or Hezbollah, said he is unlikely to vote. “All the parties in power had the opportunity to fulfill their promises, but they have left their people mired in their misery. We will not re-elect them.”

Electoral bribery has long been a problem in Lebanon, despite laws banning the practice, but has become more widespread and visible with the collapse of the national currency and decline in living conditions. Now, if rumors from the money exchange black market are to be believed, the exchange rate will drop ahead of the elections as parties attempt to buy votes using US currency. One money changer, who declined to be named, told Arab News: “Electoral spending is expected to rise during the next few days as parties attempt to buy the largest number of votes, through direct bribes.” People in Beirut have reported that money changers have been stopping passers-by in the street to ask if they want to exchange their dollars.

Read more ...

  1. Parliamentary Elections Pivotal for Troubled Lebanon
  2. Al-Rahi lauds expat voting process, urges heavy turnout
  3. Seeking change, more than 100,000 Lebanese cast ballots for May 15 election
  4. Lebanese abroad cast votes in parliamentary elections
  5. Minister Sejaan Azzi: الـــصـــوتُ الـــتـــأســيــسيّ
<< Start < Prev 1234...678910Next >End >>

Page 4 of 450

Khazen History

      

 

Historical Feature:

Churches and Monasteries of the Khazen family

St. Anthony of Padua Church in Ballouneh
Mar Abda Church in Bakaatit Kanaan
Saint Michael Church in Bkaatouta
Saint Therese Church in Qolayaat
Saint Simeon Stylites (مار سمعان العامودي) Church In Ajaltoun
Virgin Mary Church (سيدة المعونات) in Sheilé
Assumption of Mary Church in Ballouneh

1 The sword of the Maronite Prince
2 LES KHAZEN CONSULS DE FRANCE
3 LES MARONITES & LES KHAZEN
4 LES MAAN & LES KHAZEN
5 ORIGINE DE LA FAMILLE
 

Population Movements to Keserwan - The Khazens and The Maans

ما جاء عن الثورة في المقاطعة الكسروانية 

ثورة أهالي كسروان على المشايخ الخوازنة وأسبابها

Origins of the "Prince of Maronite" Title

Growing diversity: the Khazin sheiks and the clergy in the first decades of the 18th century

 Historical Members:

   Barbar Beik El Khazen [English]
  
 Patriach Toubia Kaiss El Khazen(Biography & Life Part1 Part2) (Arabic)
 
  Patriach Youssef Dargham El Khazen (Cont'd)
  
 Cheikh Bishara Jafal El Khazen 
   
 Patriarch Youssef Raji El Khazen
  
 The Martyrs Cheikh Philippe & Cheikh Farid El Khazen
  
 Cheikh Nawfal El Khazen (Consul De France)
  
 Cheikh Hossun El Khazen (Consul De France)
  
 Cheikh Abou-Nawfal El Khazen (Consul De France) 
  
 Cheikh Francis Abee Nader & his son Yousef 
  
 Cheikh Abou-Kanso El Khazen (Consul De France)
  
 Cheikh Abou Nader El Khazen
  
 Cheikh Chafic El Khazen
  
 Cheikh Keserwan El Khazen
  
 Cheikh Serhal El Khazen [English] 

    Cheikh Rafiq El Khazen  [English]
   
Cheikh Hanna El Khazen

    Cheikha Arzi El Khazen

 

 

Cheikh Jean-Philippe el Khazen website


Copyright © 2001-2017 De Khazen