Articles by Hala Najjar

Le premier cabinet du mandat Aoun a approfondi les divisions politiques au sein du vieux clivage 14/8 Mars, y mettant définitivement fin, selon la grille de lecture d’un ancien ministre – quand bien même certains continuent d’avoir recours à cette terminologie, quoique désuète. Le 8 […]

President of the Republic, Michel Aoun, on Thursday relayed to visiting French Foreign Minister, Jean-Marc Ayrault, Lebanon’s keenness on boosting French-Lebanese relations at all levels. “I will respond to an official invitation to visit France after a number of planned visits to a number of […]

President of the Republic, General Michel Aoun, received on Wednesday afternoon at Baabda Palace Head of Finance and Budget House Committee MP Ibrahim Kanaan, whereby they discussed the overall situation in the country. Talks majorly touched on the financial realities at the legislation and control […]

Deux héros du Liban Ils n’ont jamais abandonné. Jamais vacillé. Jamais perdu espoir. Malgré une opposition acharnée, plusieurs retards et une résistance coriace de la part de l’administration américaine, de certains membres clés du Congrès et de personnalités politiques libanaises éminentes, Gabriel Issa et Tony […]

Foreign Minister, Gibran Bassil, handed President of Egypt Abdel Fattah el-Sisi a letter from his Lebanese counterpart, General Michel Aoun, while on a visit to the Federal Palace in Cairo on Monday. Aoun’s letter highlighted the importance of bolstering bilateral ties in a way that […]

General Coordinator for “FPM”. – Close to the President of the Republic, General Michel Aoun. He accompanied him since he was head of the interim military government in 1988. – Holds BA in social sciences and BA in philosophy from the “University of the Holy […]

Ceasefires in Syria are difficult to arrange and particularly likely to collapse because their successful implementation involves so many parties inside and outside the country who hate and would like to kill each other. All of these powers have their own agendas that may have little […]

There was a period in 2011 and 2012 when there were genuinely independent opposition activists operating inside Syria, but as the jihadis took over these brave people were forced to flee abroad, fell silent or were dead It has just become more dangerous to be […]

Change and Reform bloc Secretary, MP Ibrahim Kanaan, categorically underscored on Friday the need for a new electoral law, stressing that such a novel law requires working on it. MP Kanaan’s fresh words came in the wake of the meeting between House Speaker, Nabih Berri, […]