Comments on: Is Cedar Island A Hoax?

By: Global Voices in Italiano » Libano: l’Isola del cedro, progetto controverso

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 04:58:48 +0000

[...] uno dei suoi post, Qifa Nabki [in] cerca di capire se il progetto sia una bufala ma, dopo alcune considerazioni riportate nel [...]

By: Global Voices Online » Lebanon: Cedar Island - A Controversial Construction

Global Voices Online » Lebanon: Cedar Island - A Controversial Construction — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 14:32:43 +0000

[...] Qifa Nabki, in one of his posts, goes out to investigate whether the project is a hoax, because of many considerations which are explained in the post, and found out that the project was real: The more time one spends on the website of Noor Holding, the firm that is allegedly developing Cedar Island, the more one begins to get the creeping suspicion that this is one of the most brilliant hoaxes pulled off in recent memory.[…]After scratching my head about this for a few minutes, I picked up the phone and called the number listed on the website. The fellow who answered assured me that it was real. [...]

By: mj

mj — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 14:51:25 +0000

It seems I can’t post a single correct sentence in english…
I meant “their” holes, obviously.

By: mj

mj — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 14:45:08 +0000

33 comments in 2 days! The Incredible Floating Cedar took your readers out of they holes…mabrouk

By: Qifa Nabki

Qifa Nabki — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 11:35:06 +0000

Thanks Johnny for the first-hand reporting.

See above for the most recent update.

By: Johnny

Johnny — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 10:42:57 +0000

Hi QN,

I can confirm the Canadian Village in Iraq. Except it’s 10km outside the Erbil International Airport – not Baghdad. Well there may be on in Baghdad, but I haven’t seen it on my way in or out of BIAP.

Erbil has a bunch of these little villages. I have visited a house in English village. Italian, American and Canadian village are up and coming neighborhoods. They are where you would find the Chweifat (sp?) International School in Erbil. I have no idea who built these villages, but I will be in Erbil next week and can follow it up if there is interest.

I must agree with a previous poster about the unlikeliness of this being feasible in the Med. Beyond the steep incline not far off our coast, the currents in our waters would never allow for such a structure out in the open. The fill (where the international gardens will be) in Beirut is attached to solid ground and so may be feasible. I will not say it is lest it float off and away from the city in a few years time.

Even if Cedar island is feasible I think it is a silly project. There should be a few lessons learned from the economic crisis and its impact on Dubai. Just cause it can be done, does not mean it should be. I think that’s a lesson that should be applied more often in our little neck of the woods.

By: M.

M. — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 09:50:04 +0000

Guys, this has been floating around for a couple of years: http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=425506

Anyways, hoax or not, us Lebanese fail to be original once again:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedar_Island,_North_Carolina

By: Qifa Nabki

Qifa Nabki — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 08:41:33 +0000

Offended

Kipp may be reliable in Dubai, but if you read the report closely, it seems that their “confirmation” amounted to discovering that the company has a website.

They got an email just like everybody else, and discovered the website just like everyone else.

I am going to have someone who knows the tourism minister here in Lebanon give him a call and find out if he did indeed give such a project his blessing.

Then we’ll know for sure.

By: offended

offended — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 08:28:57 +0000

Dear QN,
My last comment got stuck in your powerful spam filter!

By: offended

offended — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 08:27:39 +0000

It’s not a hoax folks, Kipp report is very reliable source of business news here in Dubai, and if they confirmed it then I’d believe it:

http://www.kippreport.com/kipp/2009/01/28/is-that-island-shaped-like-a-cedar-tree/

http://zawya.com/story.cfm/sidZAWYA20090124115750/Noor%20Intl%20To%20Present%20'Lebanon's%20Cedar%20Island‘