Ya Libnan Political News: News over Obama victory spreads via Facebook in Lebanon

Published: Thursday, 6 November, 2008 @ 9:44 PM in Beirut Beirut- Samer Jamal heard the news today on the radio as he drove to work. The 26-year-old Lebanese employee of a Dubai-based television channel said he felt goosebumps. The election of Barack Obama as president of the United States touched him personally. "When I heard the news, frankly, I shivered," said Jamal, who said he congratulated his friends on Facebook after Obama's victory. "I felt concretely what the American democracy was really about. I felt jealous. I wished we could have such a peaceful political transition in our part of the world." Many people in Lebanon and in the Middle East were cheered that Obama, a Democrat whose father was born a Muslim, had won the election. People congratulated one another via cellphones and on online chatting services,... [read full story]