Latest Updates from Cedars of Lebanon Club.
This year the NZ International Film Festival have the wonderful Lebanese film from Caramel director Nadine Labaki – Where Do We Go Now? Click here for a flier for the film ( Lebanese Film screening in the ... NZ International Film Festival ) which has the session times for …
To view Saba's service sheet and for the link to his family's eulogies for him, please click the link below: Family eulogies
Another article featuring Professor Bill Harris was in the ODT on Saturday 23rd June. He appears talking to Foreign Minister Murray McCully and Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University of Otago Richard Blaikie. Link to ODT Website: www.odt.co.nz/campus/university-otago/214343/need-sanctions-outside-un View Download of the Article
Here are two articles involving Bill Harris. One is from the ODT & the other from D-Scene (links to articles below). Bill talks about the Otago Foreign Policy School examining the Middle East's uprisings. ODT Article: See pictures below
Greetings Folks, Last night we held our Cedars of Lebanon, Dunedin, AGM at the Dunedin Club.
Michael Nidd advised that National Radio (in conjunction with BBC World Service) had played a piece on Kahlil Gibran earlier this week. Michael rated it very highly and suggested it be posted here for others to enjoy. (link below) "Ian Skelly visits Gibran’s home village in the mountains of Lebanon, and …
It is with much regret and deep sadness that we advise Dr Fred (Saba) passed away last Wednesday. Saba, Marie & their family lived much of his life in Dunedin, where Saba practiced as a General Practitioner in Waverley. For those of you who knew Saba, it would come …
Phillip George, on behalf of the Cedars of Lebanon Club Dunedin, laid a wreath for the remembrance of our fallen members at the ANZAC Dawn Service, Wednesday 25th April 2012.
A few weeks ago, some members of our community had the pleasure of hosting Professor Hidemitsu Kuroki from the Japan Centre for Middle Eastern Studies. Hidemitsu regularly comutes between Tokyo and Beirut to promote academic exchanges between scholars from Japan and the Middle East, primarily Lebanon. He was introduced …
Unfortunately I have to convey some sad news. Fred Farry passed away yesterday morning (April 1st) at 11am aged 87. He was surrounded by his family and passed on peacefully after a long illness. The funeral will be held on Thursday in Melbourne. If anyone has …