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Photos of food honor established by the
municipality of Elmina of Bishop Ephraim
Kyriakos on Saturday 9 December , 2009 in
Silver Beach Restaurant
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The visit of the Italian expert
Paolo Ortelli to the Municipality of
El Mina
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The Italian expert Paolo Ortelli
visited El Mina city to be informed
about the needs of the city in order
to contribute in the technical
support of the local team in STREAM
project funded by the European
Union.
Ortelli made a presentation, in the
hall of the Municipal Palace, on
Venice’s experience concerning the
strategic planning, in the presence
of the municipality president Mr.
Abdulkader Alameddine, many of the
council members, and heads of
departments and committees, in
addition to some invitees.
Moreover, Ortelli praised the
efforts made by the municipality in
establishing the urban planning
office in order to preserve what
remains from the architectural
legacy in the old city.
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El-Mina municipality honors the
first in Lebanon
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The El-Mina municipality honor the
students occupying the first places
in the international exams IATA and
BT3 Business marketing: Medalia
Adouj and Nina Dabbagh (El-Mina)
from the AUC.
The event took place in the
municipal palace in El-Mina, and
began with the welcoming word of
Alameddine, the president of the
municipality. Then Mr. Youssef
Al-Haddad, the AUC director,
mentioned the essential role of
El-Mina in honoring the
distinguished persons in all the
domains.
Later on, Alameddine presented
appreciation armors to both
students, and to the AUC director
who also gave him the same.
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Beit Al-Fan:
Art Spaces
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Beit Al-Fan inaugurated an
exposition entitled “Art Spaces”
with the participation of 24
artistes from all lebanese regions,
with the presence of the
municipality president Abdelkader
Alameddine.
The event began with the welcoming
word of the artist Abdelnasser
Yassine, in the name of Beit Al-Fan,
and then by the one of the artist of
Nadim Fatfat the organisor of the
exposition, where he thanked the
official persons, the responsible of
the advertising and the
participating artists.
The inauguration was followed by a
cocktail and then by the
distribution if appreciation
distribution.
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Poetic Session:
Nazih Abou Afach
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The Syrian poet Nazih Abou Afach
animated a poetic session in Beit
Al-fan, with the cooperation of
El-Mina Municipality, the Lebanese
Association for Promoting Reading
and Dialog Culture and the
Scientific Committee for El-Mina
Development.
Mr. Issam Sbat pronounced the Mr.
Abdelkader Alameddine's speech, and
then Edgard Merheb Harb presented
the poet.
Nazih Abou Afach had a great
performance through his special
voice and his attitude towards the
actual Arabic poetry themes. In
spite of his pains, he always has a
hope and finds a new horizon
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A training workshop for the
participation in the International
Francophone Contest for the Short
Story
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The Lebanese Association for
Promoting Reading and Dialog
Culture, and the Scientific
Committee for El-Mina Development,
with the cooperation of El-Mina
Municipality, called for a training
workshop to the secondary students
concerning the principles of writing
a short story.
Mr. Alameddine talked to the
students and encouraged them. Mr.
Saïd Al-Wili told them that the
international jury will give the
results of the submitted short
stories in February 2010. There are
around 20 students from important
schools in Tripoli and Koura
participating in this contest. Ms.
Aida Al-Soufi prepared a program for
this workshop that was divided into
two steps in Beit Al-Fan.
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Talal Salman
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The league of Al-Fayhaa
municipalities honored Talal Salman,
the editor in chief of “Assafir”
newspaper, for winning the Arab
press award and for being elected as
the media person of the year. The
ceremony took place during a dinner
in Silver Shore restaurant in
El-mina, in the presence of former
and current ministers and deputies
of Tripoli, Sheikh Majed Darwish
representing the Mufti of Tripoli
and the North Sheikh Malek Al-Shaar,
representatives of Christian
spiritual presidencies, leagues,
associations, schools and
universities, security officers,
social and media persons, in
addition to a group of interested
people.
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The event began with the Lebanese
National Hymn, and then Dr. Jean
Touma, member in the municipal
council of El-Mina, pronounced the
welcoming word.
Many speeches were subsequently
pronounced by the engineer Rashid
Jamali, Sheikh Majed Darwish and Mr.
Abdelkader Alameddine, in addition
to the honored Talal Salman.
Finally, the presidents of Al-Fayhaa
municipalities, Rashid Jamali,
Abdelkader Alameddine and Majed
Ghamrawi, offered an appreciating
armor to the honored Talal Salman.
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The delegation of the Arab Cities
Organization in visit to El-Mina
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A delegation from the Arab Cities
Organization visited El-Mina and it
was formed of Ahmad Mohammad Al-Adassani,
assistant general secretary, Ghassan
Al-Samman, director of public
relations and media, and many other
directors. The delegation met with
Mr. Abdelkader Alameddine and Dr.
Jean Touma, representative of the
municipality in the organization, in
addition to Rabih Al-Chaer, advisor
of the interior minister, and Dania
Al-Rifai, director of the UN Habitat
program in Lebanon.
Alameddine welcomed the Arab
delegation and insisted on the
strong cooperation between the
organization and the municipality.
Then Al-Adassani thanked Alameddine
for his kind meeting, and insisted
on the importance of exchanging
expertise and on the most essential
municipal services for the citizens’
daily benefit and comfort.
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This visit was an occasion to launch
many projects by El-Mina
municipality, in order to stay in
continuous cooperation. The
delegation’s members liked the new
palace in which they expressed their
wish to organize a conference or an
event.
Alameddine showed his pleasure to
welcome the organization’s events,
in order to reinforce the relations
between El-Mina and the Arab
cities-members
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Minister of Works
Ghazi
El Aridi have visited the palace
municipality of El Mina
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The president of
El-Mina municipality assists to the
Turkish Independence Day’s
festivities
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Invited by the president of Marmara
municipalities’ league, who is also
the president of Bursa municipality,
Mr. Abdelkader Alameddine visited
Turkey to participate in the Turkish
Independence Day’s festivities. He
pronounced a discourse mentioning
the common projects, the transfer
and the negotiations between El-Mina
city and Turkish cities, in addition
to the historical relations between
both Turkish and Lebanese people.
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The « 5
Continents’ Award » in the North, Beit
El-Fan, El-Mina
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The theater in Beit El-Fan was full of
amateurs in addition to university and
school student who came to assist to this
special cultural event, as a part of
“Beirut: international capital of the book”.
The event was a dialogue with some great
writers: Jean-Marie Le Clézio (Nobel Award
for literature 2008), Lise Bissonnette
(Québec), Pascal Cramer (Switzerland),
Leonel Troyot (Haiti). These writers are
members in the jury of the “5 Continents’
Award” presented to the writer Cosi Yvoy
(Togo) who was surely present in this
meeting.
After the welcoming word pronounced by Najla
Hawly who insisted on the francophonie’s
importance, Mr. Issam Sbat pronounced the
speech of Mr. Abdelkader Alameddine who
expressed his pleasure of receiving this
event in El-Mina.
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Dr. Zahida Darwish Jabbour started the
dialogue with a unified question for all the
members, concerning the characteristics of
the book winner, in addition to many other
questions about literature and creativity.
Cosi Ivoy clarified that writing, according
to him, goes beyond the limits of literary
genres, and is defined as a tentative to
understand the contradictions that human
beings are witnessing in this
violence-reigned world. As an answer to the
question concerning the constant presence of
characters escaping the city life, the
winner of Nobel Award, Jean-Marie Le Clézio,
said that the free human being lives the
exile and is always seeing the place,
because of the dominating materialism.
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As for Lise Bissonnette, she talked about
her experience as being the head of the
national library in Montréal. She considers
that library is not only an institution or
just rooms for books, but it’s a space of
dialogue between people.
Leonel Troyot talked about linguistic
dualism in Haïti, mentioning that he usually
writes in two languages, the native and the
French that carries the Creole identity to
the francophone world.
At the end of this meeting, El-Mina
municipality presented honorable armors to
the participants, the French poet Hiyam Yard
read some of her poems, and the “5
Continents Award” winner read some pages of
his book.
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Venus Khoury
Ghata:
Poetic
session in El-Mina
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After being invited by the municipality of
El-Mina and by the Lebanese Association for
Promoting Reading and Culture Dialog, the
Lebanese poet, Venus Khoury Ghata who got
the French academic award, came to Beit
El-Fan, El-Mina Tripoli to read some of her
poems. A large audience was present,
especially the president of the municipality
Mr. Abdelkader Alameddine, the council’s
members and many poetry fans.
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Alameddine
and
Venus
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The session began with the welcoming word of
Dr. Zahida Darwish Jabbour who mentioned the
importance of the poet in France and the
francophone countries. Alameddine insisted
on the importance of maintaining the
dialogue between the mediterranean
countries, and promised to organize a
cultural francophone program during this
year in order to promote the cultural and
intellectual relations.
Later on, the poet read many poems and she
was accompanied with Dr. Darwish who was
reading the poems that she had translated
into Arabic.
At the end, the president of the
municipality presented two honourable
armours to the poet and to Dr. Darwish.
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The
president of the Mediterranean Cities
Network in El-Mina improve the relations
with Rome
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The president of El-Mina municipality, Mr.
Abdelkader Alameddine had welcomed, in the
municipal palace, Mrs. Serena Forni,
president of the Mediterranean Cities
Network, and vice-president of Rome
municipality for the international
relations.
In this occasion, Alameddine insisted on
having good relations between both cities,
hoping to work on improving them. Later on,
he presented to Mrs. Forni an armor of
El-Mina, as she gave him also an
appreciating armor on the behalf of the Rome
municipality's president.
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Mrs. Forni in El-Mina
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Alameddine and
Mrs. Forni
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Moreover, she visited the new palace
compartments in addition to the old souks,
Khan Al-Tamasili and Beit Al-Fan, and she
promised to do all possible efforts to
execute common projects.
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The mayor of
El Mina participated in a workshop on
"Strategic Planning"
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Upon the
invitation of the Italian Municipality
Reggio Emilia and the Municipality of
Valencia, Spain, the mayor of El Mina Abdul
Akder Alameddine attended two workshops on
"Strategic Planning", which were held in the
Italian city of Reggio Emilia and the
Spanish city of Valencia in the presence of
delegations from the countries of the
Euro-Mediterranean. The mayor presented the
development projects in El Mina and the
draft strategic plan, which the Union of
Municipalities of Fayhaa is conducting
through the support of the World Bank and
the medcities.
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He emphasized in his
meetings with heads of delegations on the
importance of applying the municipal
administrative decentralization in Lebanon
for the implementation of vital projects and
the development of Lebanese cities in a
sustainable manner. He finally thanked the
Italian embassy in Lebanon for its
continuous support for joint projects
between El Mina and Italian cities.
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Pictures
of El Mina municipality ceremony for "FITR
Celebration"
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Traditional music
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Municilapity's word with Essam Sbat
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Arena of the
show
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Head and members of
the city council and the families
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The group [aalmwlwyt]
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aalHkwaaty and the
stories
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El-Mina Municipal
Council:
First meeting in the new Palace
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The Municipal Council had
its first meeting in the new Municipal
Palace on Tuesday September 1st,
to discuss its usual agenda.
The president of the
municipality Abdelkader Alameddine began the
meeting with a thank you speech for Taha
brothers’ and the President Mikati, which
have financed the Palace’s construction
through the Association of Determination and
Happiness. Moreover, he thanked El-Mina
citizens for their participation in the
opening ceremony, mentioning Tripoli and the
North’s habitants, in addition to official
people which celebrated, on august 20, with
El-Mina’s citizens this great achievement.
Alameddine hoped, through
his speech, that Municipal activities would
be conforming to the Palace’s aesthetic and
modern construction, mentioning the
Vice-President and the council’s cooperation
with each other in order to achieve numerous
projects and local, Arab and global
conventions.
In addition, Hajj Nabil Al-Sayegh pronounced
a speech in the name of the Council
mentioning Alameddine’s efforts deployed in
order to realize the council’s dream: to
have such an exceptional palace. Moreover,
he assured that the palace’s construction
will stay in the memory of all citizens, on
the level of the president’s follow up to
the project, and on the level of its fast
execution to have it in the service of the
citizens and to ameliorate the level of many
municipal services.
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images of the inauguration ceremony of the
municipal palace in El Mina
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Pictures of the astronomical evening
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The preparations have begun for the
inauguration of the El-Mina’s
“Municipal Castle” which will be
held around mid-august, before
Ramadan; and it is previewed that it
will be followed by a singing
festival and many other activities.
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The Collège National Orthodoxe and
the Institut Technique celebrated
their graduation ceremony of 200
graduates from academic and
technical classes. The ceremony was
held under the patronage of Bishop
Elias Qorban, and in the presence of
the Municipality’s President, Mr.
Abdelkader Alameddine.
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The ceremony
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The restoration works are being
still intensively executed in Al-Hamidi
Mosk Quarter, in the ancient area of
El-Mina. The Ambassador Patrick
Laurent have been in a visit to the
field, to see closely the project’s
implementation, especially that the
European Union have financed this
restoration project.
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The Lebanese Association of Red
Cross distributed the appreciation
awards for the youth painters, which
contributed in animating the
festivals of its 150 years. The
ceremony was held in the Red Cross
Center in Tripoli, in the presence
of many representatives of deputes
and municipalities’ presidents,
where Dr. Jean Touma was
representing El-Mina’s president.
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The ambassador Patrick Laurent in a
visit to El-Mina city
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The Red
Cross celebration in the occasion of its 150
years.
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The participation of El-Mina
president Abdelkader Alameddine
in a workshop on the “Best trials of
the municipal actions”
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Invited by the Turkish
municipalities’ league and the
Italian municipality Sosolo, the
president of El-Mina Abdelkader
Alameddine participated in a
workshop about the “Best trials of
the municipal actions”, held in
Istanbul city and assisted by many
delegations from seven
Euro-Mediterranean countries.
Alameddine presented an intervention
concerning the relationships between
Europe and Lebanon and the
importance of the corporation
Lebanese and Italian municipalities,
exposing El-Mina’s experience in the
twinning project recently executed
between El-Mina and Genoa, in
addition to the importance of the
common projects aiming to promote
the cultural heritage and to support
Tourism and cultural exchange.
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President of El-Mina
Abdelkader Alameddine
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A meeting between the president of
El-Mina municipality and the Italian
ambassador
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The El-Mina president Abdelkader
Alameddine visited the Italian
Embassy in Baabdah and met the
ambassador Gabriel Kikya and some of
the embassy staff. Alameddine
presented a detailed explanation
about the developmental projects
funded by the European Commission in
El-Mina and about the common
programs between El-Mina city and
some Italian cities (Genoa, Venice,
and Catania). In addition,
Alameddine thanked the Italian
Embassy for its continuous logistic
support, inviting the ambassador
Kikya to visit El-Mina, who promised
to do so very soon.
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Abdelkader Ala meddine and
Italian ambassador
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El-Mina’s Municipality inaugurated
Hassib Al-Sabbagh’s Garden
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El-Mina Municipality inaugurated
“Hassib Al-Sabbagh’s Garden”, on
El-Mina’s Cornish, under the
patronage of the Prime Minister
Fouad Siniora represented by the
president of the council of
development and construction Nabil
Al-Jisr, and by the initiative of
Toufic Sultan. The ceremony was
assisted by the President Najib
Mikati, the Palestinian ambassador
Abbas Zaki, the mufti of Tripoli and
the North sheikh Dr. Malek Al-Shaar,
the depute Samir Al-Jisr, the
representative of the interior
security forces’ general director
colonel Bassam Al-Ayoubi, the
municipality’s president Abdelkader
Alameddine, doctors syndicate’s
chief Dr. Nassim Khoriati,
engineering syndicate’s chief Joseph
Ishac, the dentists syndicate chief
Mohammad Ali Saadeh and many others.
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After the performance of the general
security’s orchestra, the president
Siniora’s representative with many
attendees unveiled the souvenir
board. Then they assisted to an
honoring lunch in “Silver Shore”
restaurant, organized by El-Mina
municipality and through which the
president Alameddine welcomed the
attendees, mentioning Al-Sabbagh’s
initiative as an ideal plan to
follow for the environment’s sake
and the cities embellishment. In
addition to this, many words were
pronounced by each of the following
persons: the mufti of Tripoli and
the North Malek Al-Chaar, the
engineer Nabil Al-Jisr, Mr. Souheil
Al-Sabbagh, the ambassador Abbas
Zaki and Mr. Toufic Sultan.
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Beirut: International Capital of the
Book
Poetry and awards distribution
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The Lebanese Association for
Promoting Reading and the Dialog
Culture is pursuing its activities
in the North, in cooperation with
the Ministry of Culture, in the
occasion of declaring Beirut an
International Capital of the Book.
It invited, in Beit Al-Fan, the Poet
Ilham Abdelnour reading many French
poetic verses, accompanied with the
Oud melodies performed by the
Musician Khaled Najjar. Dr. Claudia
Abi Nader presented the poet
Abdelnour mentionning the poetic
inspiration dominating her poems.
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The session was attended by Dr. Jean
Touma, representative of the
Municipality’s president Abdelkader
Alameddine, school principals and
local associations’ presidents.
After Dr. Zahida Darwich Jabbour,
the Association’s President, had
pronounced the program of Beirut,
International Capital of the Book,
the winners’ names were declared
concerning the writing contest on
the image culture and the paper
culture, where 70 students
participated from many schools of
El-Mina, Tripoli and El-Koura. The
first award winners are : for the
Arabic language Farah Zahra from
Rawdat Al-Fayhaa School, for the
English language Wissal Alwan from
Public High School for Girls Andrée
Nahas and for the French language
both May Fiani and Zeina Hanna from
Collège National Orthodoxe. All
winners were offered cash prizes and
many reading books.
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Issa Makhlouf: the East coming from
the West
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Invited by El-Mina Municipality, the
French Cultural Center and the
Lebanese Association for Promoting
Reading and Dialog Culture, the
Lebanese poet Issa Makhlouf, living
in France, animated a Poem evening
in Beit El Fan. It is important to
mention that the Makhlouf won the
Max Jacob Award for his story “A
Letter for Two Sisters” which was
translated by Abdellatif Al-Laabi
into the French. Dr. Zahida Darwich
Jabbour participated also in reading
the poems accompanied with the
musician Alexander Katrib on the Oud.
The poem evening was attended by the
Municipality’s President Abdelkader
Alameddine and a group of interested
people from which High school and
University students.
At the beginning, Dr. Jean Touma, a
member of the Municipal Council,
pronounced a welcoming speech, and
the poet read many of his poems in
Arabic, with Zahida Darwish reading
them in French.
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The Literary Annual Award of Emily
Nasrallah – 2009 and Cultural
Nationalism Award – 2009, at the
Cultural Artistic Committee
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The Cultural Artistic Committee has
announced winners of the Literary
Annual Award of Emily Nasrallah –
2009 and of the Cultural Nationalism
Award – 2009 last Saturday on Rawdat
Al-Fayhaa School’s stage. The
ceremony was attended by Dr. Samira
Baghdadi representing the Minister
Mohammad Al-Safadi, Dr. Mirvat Al
Hoz representing the engineer Rachid
Jamaly the president of Tripoli
Municipality and Dr. Jean Touma
representing the president of
El-Mina Municipality Abdelkader
Alameddine. It began with the
Lebanese national anthem, then a
welcoming speech by the speaker poet
Mohammad Rashad Awad, then the
speech of the municipality’s
president read by Dr. Jean Touma. In
addition, the president of the
Cultural Artistic Committee, Hoda Al
Sabbagh, pronounced a speech
presenting the owner of this award,
Emily Nasrallah who spoke about the
students’ contest.
The secondary awards of the Literary
Annual Contest of Emily Nasrallah –
2009 were given to Aisha Bassam
Younes from Al Hayat Public School
for girls, Rawaa Haitham Al Cheikh
from Jebran Khalil Jebran Public
School for girls. As for the
secondary awards of the Cultural
Nationalism Contest – 2009 were
given to Mirvat Najib from Al-Ghourabaa
First High School for girls and
Melissa Merabi from Andree Nahas
Public High School for girls.
The first Literary Annual Award of
Emily Nasrallah – 2009, it was
shared by both Abdelhady Yehya
Mustafa from Rawdat Al Fayhaa High
School and Nicole Georges Raad from
the Collège National Orthodoxe. As
for the first award of the Cultural
Nationalism Contest – 2009, it was
shared by Douaa Abdel Karim Salim
from the Public Mixed High School –
El-Kobba and Mariam Hilal Turkmani
from the Al-Islah Islamic High
School.
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Beirut, International Capital of the
Book... in the North
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In the occasion of declaring Beirut
the International Capital of the
Book, the Lebanese Association for
Promoting Reading and Dialog
Culture, in cooperation with the
Ministry of Culture and El-Mina
Municipality, organized a written
competition concerning the
importance of the book and reading,
going from a comparison between the
image culture and the paper culture
in our contemporary world. The
competition, held on Sunday morning
in Beit Al-Fan, was attended by 70
students from the high schools of
Tripoli, El-Mina and El Koura, in
addition to students from
associations and national clubs.
The competition started with a
welcoming speech by Dr. Zahida
Darwish Jabbour, the Association's
President, then the Municipality's
President, Mr. Abdelkader
Alammeddine passed by the
participants, assuring the role of
the Municipalities in supporting
cultural movements.
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Poetry Evening
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The Lebanese Association for
Promoting Reading and Discussion
Culture will organizes a poetry
evening on Friday, May 8 in Beit El
Fan.
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The Lebanese Poet Ilham Abdelnour
Introduced by Dr. Claudia Abi Nader
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Signature and distribution of books,
for Dannaoui, Al Wali and Touma
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In the occasion of having Beirut,
the International Capital of the
book, the Lebanese Association for
Promoting Reading, in cooperation
with the Ministry of Culture and
El-Mina Municipality, organized a
signing session for the following
writers, the lawyer M. Hassan
Dannaoui, Dr. Said El Wali and Dr.
Jean Touma. In this gathering, 500
books for these writers were
distributed freely to a group of
high school and university students
in Beit El Fan.
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Agreement of cooperation and amity
between El-Mina and Genes
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Abdel Kader Alameddine, the
president of El-Mina Municipality
visited the Italian city Genes and
signed an agreement of cooperation
and amity between the two cities
with the President of Genes
Municipality, Mrs. Marta Visketry.
After the welcoming speech of Mrs.
Visketry, Mr. Alameddine focused on
the historical relations that link
between Italy, Lebanon and the
Mediterranean cities, thanking Genes
for the artistic support in
improving the cultural inheritance
in El-Mina city. Mr. Alameddine met
Roberto Martini, the director of the
work’s manager, in Genes and they
have discussed the ways of
cooperation between the touristic
committee in El-Mina and the
touristic offices in the Italian
cities. Besides his visit, he met
also the architect expert in
renovating antique buildings,
Stephano Vra, and they discussed the
issue of restoring Khan Al Tamasili
and its surroundings. Moreover, Mr.
Alameddine invited Mrs. Visketry to
visit El-Mina and she promised she
would come as soon as possible.
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The charm of Morocco in Beit El-Fan
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El-Mina Municipality, the French
Cultural Center and the Lebanese
Association for Promoting Reading
launched an invitation for a poetic
session in Beit El-Fan, which was
animated by the Moroccan poet
Thouraya Iqbal accompanied with the
musician Alexander Katrib on the Oud.
At the beginning, the President of
El-Mina Municipality, Mr. Abdulkader
Alameddine, welcomed the poet in
El-Mina. Then, the Speaker of the
French Cultural Center, Robert Horn,
mentioned the event’s importance and
particularity. In addition, the
president of the Lebanese
Association for Promoting Reading,
Dr. Zahida Darwish Jabbour,
pronounced a speech and thanked the
Municipality and the French Cultural
Center.
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Later on, the Poet, Thouraya Ikbal,
presented a collection of her poems
in both Arabic and French languages,
and she was distinguished by the
poetic dialogs with Ibn Arabi in an
aesthetic spiritual reunion.
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Cooperation Protocol
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El-Mina Municipality signed a
cooperation protocol with the
Institute of Fine Arts in the
Lebanese University – branch III,
during a celebration in the School
of Architecture and Fine Arts in Al-Kobba
in the presence of many interested
people.
The protocol consists that the
Institute has to offer the studies
necessary to support and restore
some of the antique buildings. At
the beginning, the Institute’s Dean,
Dr. Hashem Al-Ayoubi, talked about
the cooperation, then, Mr.
Abdulkader Alameddine, the
Municipality’s President, pronounced
a speech and thanked the Lebanese
University for its cooperation.
Later, the head of the engineering
syndicate in the North, Joseph Ishak,
talked about the tight cooperation
between the Syndicate and the
Lebanese University.
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during the celebration
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Alameddine and Al-Ayoubi
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Moreover, the Institute’s president,
Dr. Ali Al-Ali, insisted that many
graduation projects would be
executed in Tripoli in order to
decorate the city.
After this, Mr. Alameddine and the
Dean Al-Ayoubi signed the protocol,
and a cocktail followed.
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The famous French writer André
Velter
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The French Cultural Center (CCF) of
Beirut and Virgin Megastore launched
an invitation for a poetic session
hold by the French writer and
thinker André Velter in Beit El-Fan
in El-Mina – Tripoli. The session
began by a welcoming word addressed
from the French Cultural Center (CCF)
to André Velter accompanied with
Alexander Katrib on the Oud, giving
so the French poetic words more
beauty and shine. At the end of the
session, Velter signed many of his
poetic and prose works published in
French.
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André Velter
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The session
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Labiba Touma sings Fayrouz
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Labiba Touma, daughter of El-Mina,
performed a singing recital for the
honor of Al-Rahbani family. The
recital was organized by “Mina’ouna”
(Our El-Mina) association in Al-Safadi
Foundation in Tripoli, where were
present the Municipality’s
President, the council’s members and
many interested people.
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Labiba Touma
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Teacher's Day
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With the presence of the
Municipality's President, of
representatives from the University
of Balamand, the Notre-Dame
University, Al-Manar University and
the Académie des Beaux-Arts in the
Lebanese University, and of school
principals, the Municipality honored
the professors retired during this
year, in a lunch organized at
Al-Sultan Restaurant. The retired
are the following: Maria Al-Sharif,
Ahmad Barake, Hoda Fawal, Helene
Kammouj, Liliane Nahas, Taroub Naoum,
Shawqi Al-Khoury, Layla Al-Haddad,
Violette Arwadi, Nouhad Bakhash,
Yasser Dandashe, Nouhad Habboushi,
Georges Moushaham, Ibrahim Al-Samrout,
Ahmad Awaida, Assia Boulbol, Elie
Katramiz and Hoda Karam
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Commemorating the establishment of
Arab Cities Organization
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In the occasion of establishing the
Arab Cities Organization, coming
each march 15, the Municipality's
President congratulated the General
Secretary, noting that this
organization has more than 400 Arab
cities and offered the studies
necessary for their renaissance and
development. The celebration was
organized under the emblem of
"spreading greenery through
cultivating trees … a collective
responsibility". This encourages
people to protect the environment
and the earth, to limit the
pollution in nature, and to work on
promoting the environmental culture
among youth people in order to enjoy
a healthy world able to meet their
ambitions and dreams.
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Works are still pursued at the
Municipal Castle
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The works are still quickly pursued
at the El-Mina's Municipal Castle
offered by Mr. Najib Mikati and Mr.
Taha Mikati through the Association
of Determination and Happiness. It's
previewed to finish these works by
the beginning of June 2009. A big
popular celebration will be held in
this occasion.
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