A new campaign was launched in September by the Ministry of Industry and the Association of Lebanese Industrialists (ALI) with the slogan “Your industry, your identity: Buy Lebanese.” It is …
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President Michel Sleiman’s proposal for a national defense strategy, which includes placing Hezbollah’s arsenal of weapons under the command of the Lebanese army, is an attempt to fine tune an …
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Yemen’s current president — formerly the quiet, powerless vice president — took office more than eight months ago, yet until recently those walking near his home would still say they …
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After months of denial that this year’s new United States and European Union sanctions were having any effect, Iran’s leaders have changed their tune and are acknowledging that moves to …
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The past three years have seen the ‘special’ relationship between Israel and the United States deteriorate in ways unseen since at least the George H.W. Bush presidency. While American subsidies …
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American politicians have long been unpopular in the Middle East. Even before the release of the hugely offensive anti-Islamic film and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s unfortunate promise to kick …
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The explosion tore through the night as I sat with friends playing cards around a table in the Jaramana suburb of Damascus on August 27. Rushing to the balcony I …
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The mainly Shia tribes of the Bekaa Valley are fiercely independent, live by strict traditions of honor and clan solidarity and scorn the dictates of the Lebanese state. In the …
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It was an apparent fall from grace for Lebanon’s former Minister of Information Michel Samaha, still in his pajamas as he was hauled from bed on August 9 during an …
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It took almost a full year before Aleppo, Syria’s second largest city by population, became an active part of the popular uprising that began engulfing the country in March 2011; …