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Lebanon
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HN/AKM , Press TV
A Hezbollah MP says the group will name a capable personality to the head of Lebanon's future government after the collapse of the cabinet.
On Thursday, Lebanese lawmaker Mohammad Raad, who heads the Lebanese resistance movement's parliamentary bloc, said the group is to nominate "a personality with a national resistance... » read this article
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Bill Van Auken , WSWS
14 January 2011
Lebanon’s misnamed “national unity” government fell Wednesday after the political bloc led by Hezbollah withdrew over the failure to reach an agreement on policy toward a United Nations probe into the 2005 assassination of former prime minister Rafiq al-Hariri.
Underlying the government’s collapse are the growing social... » read this article
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Mazin Qumsiyeh, PhD, A Bedouin in Cyberspace, a villager at home. Axis of Logic , Axis of Logic
Editor's Note: Noone I have ever read, tells the story of the Middle East with honesty, compassion and humanity equal to that of Mazin Qumsiyeh. Mazin leaves the trappings of his impressive intellect behind when writing his first hand accounts, allowing us to see the humanity of those - who alone - really... » read this article
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Sheikh Fathi Yakan passed away of natural causes Saturday 13 June 2009. As a lifelong scholar of Islamic studies, Dr Yakan was the Head of the Islamic Labor Front in Lebanon. He served thirty years as General Secretary of the Lebanese Al-Jamaa Al-Islamiya, until 1992 when he won a seat... » read this article
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