Press Review of the week
June 6th 2011
Lebanon has just announced a ban on vegetables from UE told the The Daily Star and also on… Lady Gaga1 , BeirutSpring reacted. If the so-called precautionary principle is respected concerning the serial-killer cucumber in the new E.coli plague, it makes you think: what are the effects on health of Lady Gaga singles? Perhaps her dress with vegetables was from UE…
The famous khiar bi laban is out-dated. Saudi Arabia, UAE or Koweit like Lebanon decided to ban temporarily their UE vegetables importation said ArabNews, even if KSA does not import any UE cucumbers (according to official sources in ArabNews) and only 2% in UAE, underlined the KhaleejTimes. Much ado about nothing…
Nevertheless, the news concerning Arab spring are still hot. Is Arab spring on the decline? wonders Yves Bourdillon in les Echos, albeit Bachar al-Assad and Kadhafi are continuing their violent crack-down.
- Her single “Judas” was taken off radio stations in Lebanon this April and her latest album is nom ban for being “offensive to Christianity“ . [↩]
