How cool is Facebook chat?
I can just sit here and find out where everyone is, and get real time information. Phones in Lebanon are way too expensive. And if you use up all your time it might be a problem to get a new phone card, so everyone has to conserve. Also, the lines are busy or out half the time.
This ceasefire that was supposed to happen 26 minutes ago, didn't.
Many of my students who live in Aley have already left. How ironic. Some of the Americans I know who were in the middle of things Thursday night in Beirut went up to their "safe house" in Aley. And now the rumors are it's going to be bad there tonight. I think the Ishtirakiye told the women and children to leave. Men have to stay to defend their villages.
Walid Jumblatt keeps saying that the Ishtirakiye is not arming the people. They're just using their hunting rifles and such, no AK-47s or RPGs. But on the Opposition news channel, they said that it was discovered that Akram Cheyhayeb, the Ishtirakiye Minister of Parliament from Aley, was arming the people.
It seems to be Ishtirikiye/Druze vs. Hezbollah. But a lot of the fighting that happened yesterday in Aitat was Ishtirakiye vs. Quamiye (Nationalist) who were all from Aitat.
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I haven't gotten through all your new posts yet, but one thought I have is that maybe you could have a box on the right hand side that could contains brief definitions as we're trying to keep track of all the arabic words/groups that we're learning from you as you translate the experience to us.
much love,
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