Related Blog Posts
About the Author
17 hours ago ago from Election Officer
Students are always a sensitive barometer of tensions building up in society and often act as the flash that ignites the fuse. In the microcosm of yesterday's encounters we find the clear outlines of the future conflagration. By all reports it began with a tiff between a group of Sunni and Shiite students. Within hours it engulfed Beirut's Al-Arabiya University campus and spread beyond it into mixed Sunni/Shia neighbourhoods. As students ...
Related contentAoun Pays Sudden Visit to Damascus, Meets President Assad
15 hours ago ago from Uprooted Palestinians
Almanar Readers Number : 144 09/12/2009 Suddenly, and without prior notice, the head of the Change and Reform parliamentary bloc MP Michel Aoun paid on Wednesday a visit to the Syrian capital Damascus where he held talks with Syrian President Bachar Assad. According to the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA), Aoun met with Assad at the People's palace and discussed with him the latest developments in Lebanon, mainly the formation of the ...
Related contentHizballah's call for legitimacy
22 hours ago ago from Uprooted Palestinians
Link Matthew Cassel, Electronic Lebanon, 8 December 2009 Hizballah supporters cheer as Hassan Nasrallah delivers a speech in the southern suburbs of Beirut, May 2009. ( Matthew Cassel ) Last week Hassan Nasrallah delivered a speech over video link from an unknown location, as he frequently does. The leader of the Lebanese Shia Islamic resistance and political group Hizballah addressed the audience in Beirut to ...
Related contentLebanese Hizballah to be on UN Security Council
22 hours ago ago from Doc's Talk
RubinReports Barry Rubin On January 1, Lebanon will become a member of the UN Security Council, having been elected last October by the General Assembly for a two-year term. The Lebanese government now includes a majority of ministers who are nominees of either Hizballah or of President Michael Suleiman, a Syrian and thus Iranian client. Hizballah also has a veto over government decisions. AThis means that Hizballah will have a say in ...
Related contentSyria Exports Trouble
6 hours ago ago from Midnight Approaching
Michael Young, 12.08.09, 12:01 AM ET Paris, July 14, 2008. On the podium of dignitaries at the bottom of the Champs Élysées one man savors the irony of the moment. He has been invited by President Nicolas Sarkozy to this celebration of Bastille Day, when France commemorates the opening shot in its revolution to end absolutism. Yet for the invitee, Syria's president Bashar al-Assad, this is a consecration, the first major sign that his ...
Related contentRelated News
Nothing to see... move along.
Related Videos
Nothing to see... move along.
