Hezbollah Top Security Official Defects to Israel
Shaffaf Exclusive Exclusive information to Shaffaf reported that Hezbollah arrested five members of its…
Monthly Archives: September, 2011
All the King’s Women
Articles enumerating the advances in women’s rights in Saudi Arabia have, until now, tended to…
Corruption Inquiry Rocks Kuwait
By LIAM STACK CAIRO — Two of Kuwait’s largest banks thought it a bit suspicious…
Maronites pray to a dispiriting trinity
This week the Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Anbaa, citing sources at the Maronite patriarchate in Bkirki, reported…
Assad Has No Friend in Lebanon’s Christians
Syrian dictator Bashar Assad has now killed nearly 3,000 people and detained 70,000 in suppressing…
ARAB REBELLIONS, AMERICAN RESPONSES: AN INTERIM ASSESSMENT
Featuring Andrew J. Tabler, Robert Satloff, and Margaret Scobey On September 19, 2011, Andrew J.…
Rai to Connelly: U.S. Influence Waning, Iran’s Role is Rising
Metransparent Exclusive The U.S. Ambassador to Beirut meeting with the Maronite Patriarch Beshara Rai, last…
Iraq Calls for Change of Syrian Regime
By MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT and YASIR GHAZI BAGHDAD — After months of striking a far…
Hezbollah Seizes South Lebanon Shiite Waqf Properties
by Metransparent correspondent in South Lebanon Najah Khalil More than a year after the Municipal…
Jumblatt’s Sunni disposition
To write that Walid Jumblatt is shifting political direction is a conspicuous waste of perfectly…
Lebanon’s troublesome political priest
If reverse had multiple gears, Beshara Rai would be shifting into fourth about now. Since…
Shiite village in S. Lebanon to Nasrallah: Take your Thugs away!
The families of Sujud, a locality near Jezzine in South Lebanon, issued a statement demanding…
Have the Lebanese Christians lost the plot?
Last week Maronite Patriarch Bcharra Rai made some highly controversial comments from Paris in which…
Patriarch Rai, you’re wrong
Perhaps I’m alone, but in recent months almost no significant remark from Maronite Patriarch Bechara…
In Video: Amb. Ford attended funeral ceremony of young activist Ghiyath Mattar
Watch Video on You tube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxtXzxFE-WU&feature=player_embedded Earlier, the State Department spokesperson, Victoria Nuland, had made…
In the Lion’s Den: An Eyewitness Account of Washington’s Battle with Syria
Andrew Tabler. Lawrence Hill, $16.95 paper (240p) ISBN 978-1-56976-843-3 Tabler, a fellow in the Arab…
Protests expected in Libya’s capital against Qatari ”arrogance”, support of pro ”al-Qaida” group
Metransparent Exclusive The emirate of Qatar seems to have overplayed its hand in Libya. Metransparent…
Kamal Salibi, crossroads to the man
In 2009, at the death of David Dodge, a former president of the American University…
Death in detention of activist Ghiyath Matter
Today, the body of Ghiyath Mattar, 26, was returned to his family in Daraya, a…
Asad’s Iraqi Lifeline: Naming, Shaming, and Maiming It
Remarkably, as Syria’s increasingly isolated President Asad continues his bloody crackdown on a popular uprising,…
A note from Ambassador Robert Ford
This past weekend, as Eid al-Fitr was concluding, I read reports of peaceful protests yet…
The Internet and Iran ‘It Is Possible to Pull the Plug’ (Spiegel)
The regime of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has threatened to completely cut Iran off from the…
Four of Syria’s Biggest Businessmen Hit with EU Sanctions as Anger and Fear Spread
Shock waves rippled through the Syrian Business Community this morning as people awoke to the…