Seventy years after its independence, it seems that Lebanon has lost its raison d'être as a sovereign state. In addition, its modern (and ancient) history is nothing but an endless series of crushing crises, featuring some periods of calm and (...)
The rejectionist group is refusing to describe what is happening in Syria as being anything but a new victory to be added to the list of its divine and human victories.
On the ground, the revolutionary forces are retreating, in parallel to the (...)
While policemen are issuing parking fines to people who park their cars longer than the allocated time in some streets of Beirut, the Lebanese state is unable to summon people accused of committing a real massacre before court.
True, this impotence (...)
Arab-UN Envoy Lakhdar Brahimi provokes recurring anger among the sides involved in civil war in Syria.
The media outlets keep attributing to the man conflicting statements that require clarifications from him and his aides. At times, he criticizes (...)
Activists and writers are trying to refute and criticize the discourse of the Jihadist Takfiri groups, by using means drawn from the same system of ideas and doctrines on which the Takfiris are basing their opinions, visions, and sentences.
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Lebanon has disappeared. It is no longer easy to talk about its politics, economy, or any of its current affairs. This country has shriveled and become lost between the lines, while its fate has become linked to the outcome of wars and conflicts (...)
It is disturbing to watch the video showing armed men, claimed to be Hezbollah fighters, killing wounded Syrians. Even more disturbing are attempts to explain those scenes and link them to the context of events in Lebanon and Syria.
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In their difficult moments, the Syrians, Palestinians, Lebanese, and Iraqis send calls of distress from the injustice of their kinfolk or foreign enemies, howling "we were let down by the Arabs and Muslims."
In addition, the denunciation of Arab (...)
Hezbollah is acting like an occupying force in the areas under its control. The party's security concerns are above the people's interests. All that contradicts with its structure of values and principles has no value and no legitimacy.
The raids (...)
Two and a half years into the regime's war against the Syrian society and people, the readers and viewers have the right to wonder about the meaning of the statements issued by Mr. Mohamed Hassanein Heikal in regard to the Syrian question among (...)
There is something not right about the Lebanese security services' deployment plan in the Southern Suburbs. Government officials said, and Lebanese newspapers headlined, that the state "regained" the Suburbs from the grip of self-security. The plan (...)
The rejectionists and resistance fighters have known since day one who was behind the chemical massacre committed in the two Ghoutas. They are fully aware of the fact that the regime forces are the ones that launched the lethal rockets on the (...)
By Lebanese standards, the issue of Palestinian refugees seems like a minor detail when compared to the flood of Syrian refugees rolling into Lebanon.
According to the figures of international organizations, the number of Syrian refugees in Lebanon (...)
Bit by bit, we are discovering the impact of the Arab revolutions on our societies and daily lives. Indeed, the revolutions that have been ongoing for about three years have gone beyond the squares, arenas, and armed confrontations, and moved – (...)
One of the expressions that were often reiterated when warning against the likely American strike against the Syrian regime is the call "not to turn Syria into another Iraq."
For Syria to encounter Iraq's fate would be the epitome of devastation and (...)
It is hard to find words fit for publication to describe the reactions of the axis of Mumanaa – ‘Defiance' – to the fury of Western and Arab countries over Bashar al-Assad's chemical massacre in Ghouta, the agricultural belt surrounding (...)
There is widespread opposition in the West to the upcoming strike against the Syrian regime's headquarters. Indeed, the citizens in the Western states do not want to become implicated in a new conflict which they understand nothing about, at a time (...)
As part of its many renouncements, the Lebanese government has abandoned its mission of controlling and monitoring the public space. It allowed media outlets to literally wreak havoc in a country that is already on the verge of a civil war.
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If any of us - who are safe in our homes - were to walk among the martyred children of Ghouta, we would think they were the siblings of our own children whose warm rooms we check at night to make sure they are fine. The facial expressions of this (...)
In responding to the criminal blast of the Beirut Southern Suburbs, the Lebanese state services and Hezbollah focused on the security related aspect. The names of the suspects who allegedly planted the bomb in Bir al-Abed last July were revealed; (...)
Astonishing is this hatred conveyed by the Egyptian media outlets and social communication websites towards the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) group, on the day the two sit-ins were dispersed in the Rabiaa Adawiya and Renaissance areas.
Indeed, the (...)
Were the Arab populations that rebelled against the tyrannical regimes too optimistic and did they end up slamming against the wall of reality? Are we now witnessing the fall of the Arab Spring's hopes for democracy and building the citizenship (...)
Today, many types of crimes coexist in Lebanon, some of which are due to the mounting poverty and the social tensions accompanying it, while others are part of pure political violence. Yet, all of them come together to draw an alarming image for (...)
By announcing his commitment to the preservation of the democratic heritage, the furtherance of the institutions' work, and the respect of the rule of law, Lebanese Army Commander General Jean Kahwaji confirmed that the army was standing behind the (...)
It is difficult to observe the growing violence in the Egyptian cities through a traditional looking glass. The classical interpretation of the political powers, their conflicts, their errors and their practices does not apply to this case.
Some are (...)