Articles tagged with: Najib Mikati
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Thursday, 28 Jun, 2012
The Crisis
The ongoing crisis in Syria has already resulted in at least 15,000 fatalities with tens of thousands more displaced. Tragically, it is not the desperate humanitarian situation which puts Syria at the top of the global diplomatic agenda these days—if it were then the fifteen months of government sponsored violence (and rebel-led acts of retribution) may barely have registered in the non-Arabic media. It is only when the opportunity to make global political capital is at hand ...
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Thursday, 3 Mar, 2011
“Lebanon can only be governed through consensus,” said Najib Mikati in an interview with the Almushahed Alsiyasi magazine on 24 October. Four months later, Mikati was selected as prime minister— for the second time in his political career—in a context barely approaching consensus. Mikati joined forces with the Hezbollah-led parliamentary minority, to defeat incumbent Prime Minister Sa’ad Hariri in one of the most polarized votes in the history of the country, which saw 68 lawma...
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Wednesday, 9 Feb, 2011
The collapse of Prime Minister Sa’ad Hariri’s cabinet in Lebanon was followed by Hezbollah twisting the arm of President Michel Suleiman to reschedule parliamentary con...
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