Could Suleiman Franjieh be Lebanon’s next president ? 14 ديسمبر، 2015 Something is cooking in Lebanon. And the chefs are well know politicians! There is a lot of speculation that Marada Movement leader Suleiman Franjieh could become Lebanon’s next president....
How did Minister Bassil acquire $22M of real estate? 10 نوفمبر، 2015 Lebanese broadcaster LBC has just released a fascinating report detailing the curious and multi-million dollar real .estate holdings of Lebanon’s foreign minister, Gebran Bassil According to documents leaked to...
How activists reclaimed Beirut’s coast and why it matters 16 سبتمبر، 2015 As I have written previously, a new boldness appears to be gaining strength among Lebanese activists in the context of the garbage crisis and #youstink movement. In addition to...
ISIS attracts because Arab systems repel 1 يونيو، 2015 An important op-ed article by former CIA deputy director John McLaughlin in the Washington Post this week raises the point that repeatedly comes up in discussions about the Middle...
Contain and Amplify 29 مايو، 2015 We need sensible policies for preventing terrorist ideologies from spreading, and the first step in realizing that goal is to admit that it...
Hezbollah’s Mahdi Scouts… a reservoir of fighters and martyrs 28 أبريل، 2015 The Mahdi Scouts is a Hezbollah association that has about 50,000 affiliated members. In its positions and headquarters, the generations of "Shiite resistance" graduate at the civil and armed...
1984, the year of Hezbollah 27 أبريل، 2015 Drawing a parallel between George Orwell's 1984 and today's Hezbollah's oppressive regimes and the way they operate. Orwell's book is often said to be prophetic and this article shows...
The collapse of Lebanon’s Hezbollah 21 أبريل، 2015 It’s no doubt that Hezbollah’s embroilment in the Syrian war has marked the beginning of its moral decline.
U.N.’s STL has cost millions and made no arrests 8 أبريل، 2015 The U.N.’s tribunal in Lebanon has cost millions and made no arrests. Now the journalists are on trial.
All in all, a pretty good nuclear deal with Iran 6 أبريل، 2015 The most compelling argument President Barack Obama made for the nuclear framework deal with Iran was also the simplest one: The pact, once concluded, would be preferable to any...
Crisis in Yemen – briefing 2 أبريل، 2015 Proxy war in country between Saudi Arabia and Iran will fuel wider instability unless power-sharing can be agreed upon.
Nasrallah and his party dislike advice 31 مارس، 2015 Throughout the last phase, Hezbollah’s Secretary-General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah disregarded all advices offered to him, as well as our wishes and both secret and public pledges for him to...
Iran’s project will reshape Lebanon 18 مارس، 2015 Recently, the former minister Wiam Wahab, in an interview on television, said something to the effect that he was saddened by the vacuum in the Lebanese presidency. He was...
In its fifth anniversary, Syria’s uprising against the world 16 مارس، 2015 Four years have passed since the Syrian people took down the streets claiming freedom among other demands. In its fifth anniversary, the Syrian uprising is fighting against the international...
Shiite Cleric supports civil marriage as acceptable in Islam 9 مارس، 2015 Prominent Shiite Cleric Mohammad Hasan al Amin said that civil marriage, a long called for demand in Lebanon, is acceptable in Islam
Hezbollah MP likens US ambassador to Netanyahu 9 مارس، 2015 Hezbollah officials hit back Sunday over the "stupid" remarks made last week by the U.S. ambassador to Lebanon, with an MP likening them to the Israeli leader's controversial address...
ISIL is Islam or let scholars speak 2 مارس، 2015 The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant carried all its provisions based on religious texts, whether from the Quran or the sayings of Prophet Mohammed.
Ex-Dinnieh detainee briefly arrested by Army Intelligence 24 فبراير، 2015 Muslim Scholars Committee member Sheikh Ihab al-Banna, a former detainee in the 2000 Dinnieh clashes with the Army, was briefly arrested by Army Intelligence Monday.
Was Hezbollah’s Mughniyeh an unintended target? 24 فبراير، 2015 A security source from Beirut tells Al-Monitor how the perpetrators of the 2008 assassination of Hezbollah's military commander might not have known they were targeting the elusive Imad Mughniyeh.
Montreal imam has passport revoked over trainings in Iran 19 فبراير، 2015 Ali Sbeiti, who was born in Iraq but has been a Canadian citizen since 1991, was notified in a Nov. 19 letter that his passport had been “invalidated.”