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April 2010

April 2010: day not established

Since 2005 · From the books

A giant offshore gas field raises tension between Lebanon and Israel.
Friction between Israel and Lebanon grew after a large hydrocarbon field was found off their coasts.

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July 2010

July 2010: day not established

Since 2005 · From the books

Bashar al-Assad and King Abdallah visit Beirut together.
Assad and King Abdallah came to Beirut together to sponsor a Lebanese reconciliation, saying they would secure stability.

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January 2014

Thursday, 2 January 2014

Since 2005 · From the books

Double bombing in Haret Hreik kills nine.
The attack struck the Shiite district of Haret Hreik in Beirut's southern suburb.

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Thursday, 16 January 2014

Since 2005 · From the books

Suicide bombing in Hermel.
The suicide attack hit the town of Hermel in the northern Bekaa.

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Tuesday, 21 January 2014

Since 2005 · From the books

Suicide bombing in Haret Hreik.
A further suicide attack hit Haret Hreik in the southern suburb.

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January 2014: day not established

Since 2005 · From the books

The Special Tribunal begins hearing witnesses.
Hezbollah members and accomplices in the Syrian regime were implicated in the STL trial near The Hague, where Lebanese witnesses appeared for both sides.

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February 2014

Monday, 3 February 2014

Since 2005 · From the books

Suicide bombing in Choueifat.
A suicide bomber struck at Choueifat, south of Beirut.

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Wednesday, 19 February 2014

Since 2005 · From the books

Bombing at the Iranian cultural centre in Haret Hreik kills six.
The bomb targeted the Iranian cultural centre in Haret Hreik.

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February 2014: day not established

Since 2005 · From the books

Tammam Salam forms a 'national unity' government.
Picard: the Salam cabinet rejected any asylum policy, and Lebanon refused official camps for Syrian refugees.

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March 2014

March-September 2014: day not established

Since 2005 · From the books

Repeated suicide attacks on Hezbollah areas in the southern suburb and the Bekaa.
Many suicide bombings between March and September 2014 were aimed at Hezbollah targets in Dahiyeh and the Bekaa.

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April 2014

spring 2014: day not established

Since 2005 · From the books

A curfew for Syrians is posted in Bourj Hammoud.
After a brawl between young Lebanese and Syrian immigrants, the municipality of largely Armenian Bourj Hammoud posted notices barring foreigners and Syrians from its streets from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m.

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May 2014

May 2014: day not established

Since 2005 · From the books

Michel Suleiman's term ends; a second presidential vacancy begins.
No head of state would be elected for twenty-nine months.

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August 2014

Friday, 15 August 2014

Since 2005 · From the books

Ahmad al-Assir is captured.
De Clerck and Malsagne's chronology records the arrest of Ahmad al-Assir, the Salafist preacher whose followers fought the army at Abra in June 2013.

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2014

2014: day not established

Since 2005 · From the books

New rules restrict Syrian refugees' residence and work.
Refugees, a quarter to a third of the population from 2014, neared 1.3 million a year later. Lebanon refused official camps; Syrians, once exempt, now needed an entry visa and a Lebanese sponsor (kafil), and most jobs were closed to them under 2014 decrees of the Tammam Salam government.

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March 2016

Saturday, 19 March 2016

Since 2005 · From the books

Beirut's rubbish is finally collected and taken to new landfills.
Quéméner notes that one of the two new landfills had been sited too near Beirut's international airport.

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April 2016

April 2016: day not established

Since 2005 · From the books

Refugee pressure: the labour minister asks for help; Hollande pledges aid.
In April 2016 Labour Minister Sejaan Azzi, citing 25 per cent unemployment and 1.5 million Syrians, asked the US ambassador to take the refugee burden off Lebanon. Visiting Beirut that month, François Hollande announced 50 million euros a year in refugee aid for 2016-2018.

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May 2016

Sunday, 8 May 2016

Since 2005 · From the books

Beirut municipal elections: Hariri's list beats the civil-society list Beirut Madinati.
Saad Hariri's list won Beirut's council over Beirut Madinati ('Beirut, my city'), a civil-society slate that proposed deliberative urban planning and fielded engineers, architects, artists and researchers; Reder links it to the 2015 'You Stink' protests. Some 80 per cent of voters abstained.
Art and memory
  • artwork A 111101 project presents the 2016 Beirut municipal vote interactively, from the results and the electoral rolls (/Projects/Municipalities/results-beirut.php and voters-beirut.php).

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July 2016

Tuesday, 5 July 2016

Since 2005 · From the books

A Syrian refugee camp is burned in Akkar.
A small Syrian refugee camp in Akkar, a poor Sunni region, was set on fire on the night of 5-6 July.

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summer 2016: day not established

Since 2005 · From the books

Beit Beirut, the memory museum in the Barakat building, is inaugurated but stays closed.
The municipality inaugurated Beit Beirut, the old snipers' building on the demarcation line, but kept it shut; its 2008-2016 restoration saw repeated quarrels among the municipality, architect and scientific committee. Paris's mayor visited in September.
Art and memory
  • memorial Beit Beirut, the old Barakat building on the demarcation line, was the municipality's planned museum of the city's memory. Reder finds that in 2016-2019 artists and NGOs, not the municipality, kept it alive.

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October 2016

Monday, 31 October 2016

Since 2005 · From the books

Michel Aoun is elected President after twenty-nine months of vacancy.
Aoun, 81, ended a vacancy of over two years. A surplus envelope voided the last two of three rounds held before his election, Quéméner notes.

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November 2016

Thursday, 3 November 2016

Since 2005 · From the books

Saad Hariri is designated Prime Minister.
Hariri was named three days after Aoun's election.

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