Advisor to the president of the Arab Volunteer Union in Bahrain, Charbel Qabalan, visited on Thursday Minister of Information, Manal Abdel Samad, at her ministry office, and presented her with an invitation to partake in the Union’s Arab Campaign for Environmental Development. Qabalan, who also chairs the Noble Order of ...

Minister of Information Manal Abdel Samad said on Thursday that the Cabinet session chaired by Prime Minister Hassan Diab listened to the explanation given by the Minister of Energy on the causes of power outages and the late arrival of the fuel ships. On another note, Abdel Samad also announced ...

Information Minister, Dr. Manal Abdel Samad Najd, affirmed Saturday via her Twitter account: “I understand the keen concern of the judiciary over the homeland’s security with regards to the interference of some diplomats in its internal affairs. But no one has the right to prevent the media from reporting news ...

Minister of Information, Dr. Manal Abdel Samad Najd, clarified in an interview with the Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation this evening, that she had contacted Prime Minister, Dr. Hassan Diab, who denied providing “any official apology by the Lebanese government to American Ambassador Dorothy Shea,” adding that “it is up to Ambassador ...

Prime Minister, Dr. Hassan Diab chaired today at the Grand Serail a Cabinet session. Minister of Information Manal Abdel Samad delivered the following statement after the session: At the outset of the session, PM Diab deplored “the absence of some forces from the national dialogue that the President of the ...

Minister of Information, Dr. Manal Abdel Samad Najd, on Wednesday welcomed representatives of digital media portals in West Bekaa, Zahle, and Baalbek-Hermel regions. During the meeting, Minister Abdel Samad confirmed that she echoed the voice of the media in the government, stressing that she prefers “to work in silence.” She ...

Minister of Information, Dr. Manal Abdel Samad Najd, on Wednesday welcomed President of the Belarusian Alumni Association in Lebanon, Engineer Marwan Al-Zuhairi, with whom she discussed media cooperation. “Delegated by the Belarusian embassy in Damascus, I have met with Minister Abdel Samad to negotiate a cooperation agreement between the Lebanese ...

Minister of Information, Manal Abdel Samad, received Tuesday at her ministry office, a delegation of the Cultural Forum of Arab Tribes in Lebanon, chaired by Sheikh Talal Daher.   The meeting reportedly touched on the current general situation on the local scene, in addition to the Forum’s activities. NNA

Minister of Information, Dr. Manal Abdel Samad Najd, on Mondaywelcomed in her office at the Ministry a delegation from the national committee of tenants, chaired by Antoine Karam. The delegation briefed Minister Abdel Samad on the plight endured by the old tenants, in terms of the “unfair” and “unfeasible” law ...

Nasa is funding a major new search for alien life elsewhere in the universe. The project – which is being run by scientists at Harvard and the University of Rochester – will scan the skies for signs of life known as technosignatures. Those are indications of alien technologies, which would be revealed to us either on ...