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Posts Tagged ‘Lebanese government’

Franklin Lamb – Lebanese students advise President Obama how to get it right

By Guest Post • Nov 16th, 2009 • Category: Israel, Middle East Issues, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, War

If those in Lebanon watching the news on 11/12/09 blinked they might have missed an interesting news item. It appeared at approximately 4:20 pm on Narharnet.com, the pro-US/Saudi news website.
The news item read “4:16 pm, American Ambassador Michele Sison (sp) departed Lebanon for her country.” Ten minutes later the item disappeared and, as it turned [...]

Lebanon's political future? An interview with Karim Makdisi

By Mary Rizzo • May 23rd, 2008 • Category: Analysis, Interviews, Middle East Issues, Newswire, Opinions and Letters, War

Tadamon! presents an outstanding interview with Lebanese political commentator and professor Karim Makdisi. He offers a critique on the recently signed political agreement on Lebanon's future signed in Doha, Qatar as without long term substance. As media outlets across the world followed closely the most recent political conflict in Lebanon, seldom was the countries major economic crisis [...]