Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarch of Antioch All the East, Youssef Al-Absi, on Tuesday received Minister of Information, Ziad Al-Makary, at the Patriarchate in Rabweh. Discussions between the pair reportedly touched on an array of national and media affairs. On emerging, Minister Al-Makary said that the visit comes as part of ... Read More »
Minister of Information, Ziad Al-Makary, on Monday welcomed in his office at the Ministry, a delegation of the Editors’ Syndicate, headed by its Dean Joseph Kosseifi. Discussions reportedly touched on the current general situation in the country, and an array of media affairs. Dean Kosseifi outlined the most important problems ... Read More »
Information Minister Ziad Makary revealed, in an interview with “Radio Lebanon” this morning, that a protocol agreement with the French embassy will be signed on April 5, 2022, to archive the data of both the Lebanese TV and Radio, promising that “all archives will be preserved electronically for the benefit of the Ministry of Information.” ... Read More »
Minister of Information, Ziad Al-Makary, on Thursday welcomed Iranian cultural advisor, Mohammad Reza Mortazavi, with whom he discussed the general situation, as well as Lebanese-Iranian bilateral relations. The pair also discussed the possibility of reviving agreements in the field of media and activating joint cooperation. Following the meeting, Mortazavi said ... Read More »
Minister of Information, Ziad Makary, on Thursday inspected the Hazmieh-based Télé Liban building and toured all its departments. “I expected Télé Liban in Hazmieh would be in better conditions,” the Minister told reporters. “Neither Télé Liban nor the Information Ministry is poor,” he said. “We will try our best to ... Read More »
General Security chief, Major General Abbas Ibrahim, met Wednesday with Minister of Information, Ziad Makary, over the latest developments and an array of affairs that concern both the ministry and the security agency. Ibrahim later met with UNIFIL Commander, Major General Aroldo Lazaro Saenz, with whom he discussed the ... Read More »
Two new studies are reporting on an ongoing long COVID research project investigating the persistent effects of COVID-19 on cognition in the months after acute disease. The University of Cambridge-led research found many long COVID patients are experiencing significant and measurable memory or concentration impairments even after mild illness. “Long ... Read More »
Minister of Information, Ziad Makari, met Tuesday at his ministry office with Head of the National Audio-Visual Council, Abdel Hadi Mahfouz, who came on an acquaintance visit. The pair discussed an array of media-related affairs. Makari later received Secretary General of the Higher Relief Committee, Major General Mohammad Kheir, ... Read More »
The new Minister of Information, Ziad Al-Makari, on Monday underlined, during the handover ceremony at the Ministry of Information, his commitment to the government’s positions, especially the dissociation policy from Arab-Arab differences, which aims to consolidate Lebanon’s internal unity, on one hand, and to preserve, strengthen and improve our relations ... Read More »
A newly-discovered Covid variant that combines mutations from both Omicron and Delta is “the real thing,” scientists have said. Earlier in the year, concern was raised after a lab in Cyprus claimed to have found evidence of a Delta-Omicron recombination event – when the two variants co-infect a patient and exchange genetic material to produce a new viral ... Read More »
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