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Gadhafi's Grip on Military and Media Gives Cover to Atrocities

ANALYSIS Moammar Gadhafi's totalitarian control over the military and media has made Libya's revolution the most violent so far in a region beset by uprisings. Hussein Malla, AP Libyan citizens stand over a destroyed tank at Al-Katiba military base after it fell to anti-regime protesters. Until the protests...

Saudi, Syrian Leaders Try to Avert Civil War in Lebanon

(July 30) -- Five years after Syrian troops were forced out of Lebanon in the wake of the 2005 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad returned to Beirut today as the country's potential savior, accompanied by his erstwhile rival, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. It was Assad's...

Background on Hilal Khashan

Hilal Khashan (born 1951, Beirut, Lebanon) is a leading Palestinian-American scholar of the Middle East and chair of the Department of Political Studies and Public Administration at the American University of Beirut.

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