Hariri Youth Supporters Seek Leadership From the Streets

My latest on AAE By: Moe Ali Nayel Published Friday, January 31, 2014 Following Saad Hariri’s recent announcement to participate in a government with Hezbollah, Beirut’s Sunni youth find themselves looking for alternative leaders they feel can offer them true protection. At an engagement ceremony last week in Chiyah, a neighbourhood in the southern suburbs of Beirut, two families decided to challenge the current confessional … Continue reading Hariri Youth Supporters Seek Leadership From the Streets

Another Car Bomb Another Mysterious Assassination

Brigadier Wissam al-Hassan was born in 1965 in the village of Betwartij, Koura, North of Lebanon, a married man and a father of two boys. He enrolled in the security service in 1983 as a student lieutenant, and moved up the ranks until he was assassinated as a General. After his death he was promoted to the rank of Brigidier, a rank that he had … Continue reading Another Car Bomb Another Mysterious Assassination