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Syria complies with UN 1559, quits Lebanon
While Syrian President Bashar Assad announced before the
Syrian National Assembly his country’s abiding by UN
resolution 1559, which calls for the withdrawal of
Syrian troops from Lebanon and the disbanding of
militias, Syria’s Lebanese cronies were announcing their
refusal of the international resolution and their
determination to go by the 1989 Taef Agreement.
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NEWS & REPORTS
Arab nationalism dies
The Unfolding events in the Middle East,
the Arab and international pressure on Syria and its
consequent withdrawal from Lebanon, demonstrations and
counter demonstrations in Damascus and Beirut and the
rapid democratization in other Arab countries highlight
one indicator: that Arab nationalism has died.
Hariri's death should salvage
Lebanese women's rights
by Maysam
Ali (BEIRUT)
Reports and pictures of the last minutes of late premier
Rafik Hariri show him talking to a group of women, one of
them an AUB alumnus, Lamia Osseiran. When inquiring about
what the conversation was about, the women activists said
that they presented Hariri with their demand of the need
to allocate a women's quota in the coming parliamentary
elections. Hariri expressed his preliminary approval,
saying that the project should be further studied and
shaped.
Syria’s top guy in Lebanon on the
record
by Robert Fisk -- The Independent (BEIRUT)
As the United Nations' Irish-led special
investigation team here prepares to report that the
Lebanese authorities have covered up evidence of the
murder on 14 February of the former prime minister Rafik
Hariri, his two sons have fled Lebanon after hearing that
they too are in danger of assassination.
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EDITORIALS
Lahoud just go...
To President Emile Lahoud:
Now that the whole of Lebanon has come to a moment of
truth, we kindly ask you to resign.
Is it really a new democratic
left?
by Saud Mawla (BEIRUT)
The announcement of the birth of the Democratic
Left Movement (more known for its Arabic acronym HYD) has been
a new qualitative and bold step in the history of Lebanese and
Arab political activity especially that it presented a unique
political and intellectual critique when reviewing the past
experience of the Arab national liberation movement including
its successes and failures, and most importantly it presented
the youth with new hope. This youth has always been the heart
of every true “leftist” activity.
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Op-Ed
‘Half a million gather for a
pro-Syrian rally to defy vision of US,’ reports Robert Fisk
by Robert Fisk -- The Independent (BEIRUT)
It was a warning. They came in their tens of
thousands, Lebanese Shia Muslim families with babies in arms
and children in front, walking past my Beirut home. They
reminded me of the tens of thousands of Iraqi Shia Muslims who
walked with their families to the polls in Iraq, despite the
gunfire and the suicide bombers.
In reply to Robert Fisk:
Don’t speak for Iraqi or
Lebanese Shiites
by
Hussain Abdul-Hussain
Dear Robert Fisk,
For the sake of your own journalistic
credibility, please spare everyone your generalizations.
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FEATURES
Iraqis strive to preserve national
memory
The Iraqi National Foundation and Baghdad’s
Mayor announced the transformation of one square kilometer of
Saddam Hussein’s deposed regime’s Festivities Square into a
museum.
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HISTORY & CULTURE
Sharansky argues in favor of
democracy, freedom
By Adnan Al-Janabi
(CHICAGO)
Natan Sharansky’s book, The Case for Democracy,
is certainly one of the inspiring texts one might come upon.
Just ignore some of his opinion on the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict and you'll enjoy this read.
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Youth News
Sociodems to raise awareness in
DC
Orientalism has announced its last days in Star
Academy. For those out-dated, Star Academy is the Arab version
of the famous French program for youths seeking to be singing
pop stars.
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LIGHT NEWS
Film exposes East-West
interaction
by Rola Abdul Latif (VIRGINIA)
The difference in perspective on Middle Eastern
politics between Arabs and Americans came to the forefront in
the powerful independently produced documentary Control Room.
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