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This is a report overview written for The Daily Star: Anthony ElghossainDaily Star staff BEIRUT: The past year has seen Lebanese politicians disagree with respect to the election of a president, the composition of a “national unity” government, and the drafting of a new electoral law, a new report issued by Arab League Secretary General [...]

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This is a newspiece written for The Daily Star: Anthony Elghossain Special to The Daily Star BEIRUT: A Syrian government source denied that three Syrian Army divisions have been deployed near the Lebanese border, according to a Sunday report on Al-Manar TV. “Such reports are groundless and are better not be commented on,” the Syrian [...]

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This is an old entry from The Thinking Lebanese blog: A Blind Assessment: Communal Perspectives and Political Conjecture The kidnapping saga involving Ziad Qabalan and Ziad Ghandour has come to a catastrophic end as their dead bodies were discovered yesterday in the Shouf region. This tragedy immediately acquired political overtones, perhaps inevitably, because of the [...]

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This is an old entry from The Thinking Lebanese blog: Lebanon Unraveled The turmoil in Lebanon this past week has created inherently contradictory sentiments amongst the broader population, especially those who support the March 14th movement. On the one hand, the rapid escalations witnessed on the 23rd (an FPM-LF confrontation) and the 25th (a confrontation [...]

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This is an old entry from The Thinking Lebanese Blog ENDGAME The dilemma facing the Lebanese community is as follows – the opposition bloc, consisting of Amal, Hezbollah, and the FPM has committed itself to demonstrations until the resignation of the government, while the March 14th coalition has (as discernable from comments made by Walid [...]

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