The Palestinian gunman, his face screwed up with rage, ran towards us, raising his AK-47 and yelled, “Get your hands up! Get your hands up!” It was June 2007 …
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Opinion
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Recently, I happened to be involved in a public debate about the possibility of Lebanon soon introducing a smoking ban, along the lines of similar interdictions in Syria and Turkey. …
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The story of the Lebanese resistance has long followed the Hezbollah narrative — unsurprising, given the party’s martial exploits of the early 1990s, when it came to dominate the effort …
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The decision by Emirates Airlines to postpone moving its operations to the new Al Maktoum International Airport near Jebel Ali risks letting regional rivals steal a slice of Dubai’s hard-won …
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The economy of the eastern Mediterranean went from being a unified whole under the Ottomans 100 years ago to increasing fragmentation in the Twentieth Century. This trend was especially …
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The view from the Swiss hotel where I found myself this winter was wet indeed. Both the falling rain and the sight of Lake Leman a few meters away focused …
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Obama orders arrest of three four-star generals. Air Force and Marine chiefs accused of trying to overthrow the administration.” If these headlines were splashed across the front pages of the …
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This March 14 will be the fifth anniversary of the massive gathering that took place one month after the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri. And while …
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Just shy of the ides of March, the Lebanese army is to host (snow permitting) the second Raid des Cedres, in which teams of three race through Mount Lebanon …
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