{"id":13202,"date":"2016-11-01T22:23:39","date_gmt":"2016-11-01T22:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/?p=13202"},"modified":"2016-11-01T22:23:39","modified_gmt":"2016-11-01T22:23:39","slug":"beginning-of-a-new-political-chapter-in-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/beginning-of-a-new-political-chapter-in-lebanon\/","title":{"rendered":"Beginning of a New Political Chapter in Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marhaba! In earlier <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/to-beirut-with-love\/\">posts<\/a>, I have discussed important <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/the-garbage-crisis-in-lebanon-whats-the-you-stink-movement-all-about\/\">developments<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/lebanon-celebrates-its-69th-independence-day\/\">Lebanon<\/a> in the last few years. After a long political deadlock, members of the Lebanese Parliament elected Michel Aoun, the former General of the Lebanese Armed Forces and current Member of the Lebanese Parliament, as the 13th President of the Republic of Lebanon. Tens of thousands of Lebanese citizens took to the streets to celebrate the new political chapter in Lebanon whereby expecting better future prospects.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13204\" style=\"width: 509px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter post-item__attachment\"><a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/iiuUZ\" aria-label=\"Lebanon Flag\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13204\" class=\" wp-image-13204\"  alt=\"Image by ItzaFineDay via Flickr (CC BY 2.0)\" width=\"499\" height=\"334\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/11\/Lebanon-flag.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/11\/Lebanon-flag.jpg 640w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/11\/Lebanon-flag-350x234.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13204\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image by ItzaFineDay via Flickr (CC BY 2.0)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Given that I always want you Arabic lovers to be able to learn about and discuss the latest developments in the world in Arabic, I am sharing a news story about the recent Presidential elections in Lebanon in the form of a listening comprehension exercise from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZhxIH5y1bSg\">Al Arabiya<\/a>. I want you all to work on and perfect your listening skills. As always, I have some questions for you to answer. Good luck! Share your thoughts on the news story on this page and\/or via our <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/arabiclanguage\">Twitter<\/a>\/<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/learn.arabic\/\">Facebook<\/a> pages.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u0639\u0648\u0646 \u0631\u0626\u064a\u0633\u0627..\u062a\u0623\u0632\u064a\u0645 \u0623\u0645 \u0635\u0641\u062d\u0629 \u062c\u062f\u064a\u062f\u0629\u061f\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZhxIH5y1bSg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Questions<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/span>1) For how long has Lebanon been without a President?<br \/>\n2) What&#8217;s the next major battle after electing the new President of Lebanon?<br \/>\n3) What regional event greatly affects the political process in Lebanon?<br \/>\n4) What did Aoun do to ensure that the largest bloc in Parliament would support his bid for the Presidency?<br \/>\n5) What major political party must Aoun think of as his administration formulates new policies?<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-item__entry\">\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>For now take care and stay tuned for the answers soon!<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Happy Learning!<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Have a nice day!!<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> <span lang=\"AR-SA\">\u0646\u0647\u0627\u0631\u0643\u0645<\/span><span lang=\"AR-SA\"> \u0633\u0639\u064a\u062f<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"350\" height=\"234\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/11\/Lebanon-flag-350x234.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image tmp-hide-img\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/11\/Lebanon-flag-350x234.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/11\/Lebanon-flag.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p>Marhaba! In earlier posts, I have discussed important developments in Lebanon in the last few years. After a long political deadlock, members of the Lebanese Parliament elected Michel Aoun, the former General of the Lebanese Armed Forces and current Member of the Lebanese Parliament, as the 13th President of the Republic of Lebanon. Tens of&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/beginning-of-a-new-political-chapter-in-lebanon\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":97,"featured_media":13204,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[3525,6],"tags":[3531,295820,208987,295822,295814,364668,2092,462460,428680,295815,80295,8846,316855,462462,462461],"class_list":["post-13202","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arabic-language","category-grammar","tag-arabic","tag-arabic-comprehension-exercises","tag-arabic-exercises","tag-arabic-listening","tag-arabic-listening-comprehension","tag-arabic-lovers","tag-elections","tag-elections-in-lebanon","tag-elections-in-the-arab-world","tag-improve-arabic","tag-learn-arabic","tag-lebanon","tag-love-arabic","tag-michel-aoun","tag-new-presidency-in-lebanon"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/97"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13205,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13202\/revisions\/13205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}