وجّه السفير الإيطالي في لبنان ماسيمو ماروتي رسالة شكر الى اللبنانيين على تعاطفهم مع الشعب الإيطالي بعد الزلزال الذي ضرب وسط بلاده الأسبوع الفائت وجاء في رسالة ماروتي:
” أوجّه فائق الشكر الى السلطات اللبنانية والشعب اللبناني للتعازي الحارّة والصادقة التي تقدّموا بها الى إيطاليا على أثر الزلزال الذي ضرب وسط البلاد”. أضاف:” أعرب على تقديري الكبير لمشاعر المحبّة والتضامن مع الشعب الإيطالي في مصابه الأليم والتي عبّر عنها أصدقاء إيطاليا”.
Marlene Khalifeh
Marlene Khalifeh, a Lebanese journalist. She worked for a period of twelve years in An-Nahar” newspaper before moving to “As-Safir” were she spent ten years as a diplomatic reporter. Between these two periods, Mrs. Khalifeh published many articles in the Al Hayat” and “Al Riyad” newspapers, “Al Wassat” and “Newsweek Middle East” magazines.
She created her own website “Masdar diplomacy”,on the 11th of July 2016 focusing on diplomatic activities in Lebanon and the Middle East.
After attending many training courses in a number of European, American, and English institutions, she specialized in investigative journalism. Her hard work paid off when she was awarded, twice (in 2004 and 2005), with the “investigative journalist” prize by the Commonwealth (in Jordan) among four Arab participating countries. Afterwards, she focused her attention on the politic and diplomatic press training and research on fact checking.
