What Our Site Has to Offer This homepage is designed to: 1. Facilitate contact with the Embassy of Lebanon in Washington DC and the three Lebanese Consulates General in New York, Detroit and Los Angeles. This is designed to make our consular services more accessible and less cumbersome (Consular Affairs). It is also designed to make it easier to contact the diplomats and staff responsible for specific tasks (A Look at the Embassy). 2. Give investors and potential investors in the reconstruction and development of Lebanon an initial view of the liberal conditions governing foreign investments in the country and the actual development of the Lebanese economy. It also identifies reconstruction projects in progress and/or available for investment. Finally, it indicates major points of contact for types of investment being contemplated by international investors (Doing Business in Lebanon and Statistical Data). 3. Inform tourists who are interested in visiting Lebanon of the points of interest in the country, the hotels where they might stay, the restaurants where they may eat and other relevant facts. The most interesting feature here is the interactive map which shows the different interesting sights and give relevant information about each of them (Tourism and Culture). 4. Give up-to-date news about Lebanon and about the Lebanese communities abroad, particularly the Lebanese Americans community. Events, whether personal or for organization, can also be advertised for free in this section. Personal events include: Births, Engagements, Marriages, Obituaries, and other events. Organizations events include: Meetings, Conferences, and other social events. (News) 5. Offer general information about Lebanon (General Information about Lebanon) 6. Offer links to other Web Sites on Lebanon that provide additional information on the country (Lebanon Web Sites). The success of this homepage depends, ultimately, on the number of users and the extent of information and service they receive from it. Our best source of information on this is you, the user. If you have any comments or suggestions please email them to us at: info@lebanonembasssy.org