Lebanon’s Golgotha in the Prisons of Syria:The Testimony of a Former Lebanese Prisoner

From the archives of the Syrian War Against Lebanon (1975-2005), the testimony of one among thousands of Lebanese citizens who ...
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Lebanon’s socio-political structure is a hybrid of Aryan feudalism and Semitic tribalism

As the Lebanese begin voting tomorrow in local municipal and selectmen elections, one cannot but notice the violation of basic ...
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Lebanon’s Stark Choice: Civil War or Israeli War

After 50 years of instability, wars, foreign invasions and occupations, Lebanon seems to have begun taking hold of itself … ...
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French Senator Malhuret on Trump and European Security

Dear colleagues, Europe is at a critical juncture of its history. The American shield is shirking its responsibility, Ukraine runs ...
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Persistent Syrian Threat to Lebanon’s Existence

I post below an opinion written by Walid Phares in 1991 and posted on Lebanon File’s electronic version published (in ...
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Back to the Future

Some 20 years ago, at the height of the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah, I wrote the piece below. ...
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Testimony Before the Anglo-American Committee on Palestine

By Phillip K. Hitti, 1946
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Lebanon’s Top Export: Corruption – A Case Study

You think that southern Italy is where the Mafia runs supreme. You be wrong. InLebanon, corruption is in the DNA; ...
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US Reporters’ Naive but Harmful Coverage of Lebanon.

In 1992, I sent a letter to the magazine “The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs (WRMEA), to which both ...
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The Rustling of the Cedars

The book « Hafif Al-Arz » (The Rustling of the Cedars) was published byYoussef Ayoub Hitti in Rio de Janeiro around 1920. ...
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