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“‘Something big will happen after Ramadan.' ‘People will start fighting outside of Beirut.' And the most popular one: ‘Someone will get killed during the presidential elections.' [snip] Well, it seems that the Lebanese were right to think ‘the situation' would heat up at the end of September,” wrote Melissa about how the Lebanese foresaw something as terrible as the latest assassination happening.

Recent Links also in Middle East & North Africa

samuraisam, from the UAE Community Blog, asks: “Has anyone else found the Israeli TLD to be unblocked from the UAE? On my Etisalat connection it seems to be open.”

UAE blogger An Emirati's Thoughts calls for action following the “recent slump in the confidence in Dubai's debt management capabilities.”

Yemeni Omar Barsawad shares with us information on the Yemeni capital San'aa. “Be it in Sana'a Old City or the mud bricked houses of Hadhramout, Yemen's architecture remains very much traditional and unique. And is still being preserved in most parts of the country,” he notes.