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9 January – 2022–2025 Lebanese presidential election: The Lebanese parliament elects Lebanese Armed Forces commander Joseph Aoun as President of Lebanon, ending a two-year vacancy. [ 1 ] 13 January – President Joseph Aoun nominates Nawaf Salam , the head of the International Court of Justice , as Prime Minister of Lebanon . [ 2 ]
The word durbar is of Persian origin and it was first linked to ceremonial assemblies marking the proclamation of Queen Victoria as the Empress of colonial India in 1877. But the native Hausa use the term "Hawan Sallah" to describe the festival - meaning the "Mount of Eid", "Hawan" referencing the physical mounting of the horse and "Sallah" being the Hausa name for Eid.
Apr. 25—ALBUQUERQUE — If there is such a thing as a Gathering of Nations kid, Dustina Abrahamson might have been it. Now 48, Abrahamson — who is Lemhi Shoshone-Bannock and who from sixth ...
The Roman Hippodrome, which occupies 3500 m² near the Maghen Abraham Synagogue in Wadi Abu Jamil, the historic, Jewish quarter of Beirut, was discovered in 1988. [1] The Roman Hippodrome of Beirut was the second to be discovered in Lebanon after the Tyre Hippodrome, making Lebanon home to two of the five known Roman hippodromes in the Levant, the other three being in Caesarea in Israel ...
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Lebanon competed at the 2025 Asian Winter Games in Harbin, China, from February 7 to 14. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The Lebanese team consisted of 17 athletes competing in five sports. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The 17 athletes represented the largest team the country sent to the Asian Winter Games . [ 5 ]
Greater Lebanon from Ra's Naqura in the south to Nahr al-Kabir north of Tripoli, and from the coast to the Anti-Lebanon mountains was established under the French provisional mandate in April 1920. Patriarch al-Huwayyik, with the Ottoman imposed famine in recent memory, insisted on the acquisition of the Biqa valley, a principal food producing ...