Word: beirutization
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...secretary for the Foundation For the Future, a Beirut-based grant-making organization which strives to support democracy in the Middle East...
...secretary for the Foundation For the Future, a newly-formed, Beirut-based grant-making organization with a mission to support democracy in the Middle East...
...begun marshaling a new reservist army of Shi'ite street fighters, which would allow Hizballah's regular combatants to concentrate on confronting Israel rather than becoming embroiled in fighting fellow Lebanese. "The war is coming definitely and Hizballah needs a fighting society," says Mohammed, a young Hizballah activist in Beirut...
...been politically gridlocked since November when six ministers - including all five Shi'ites - quit the government. Siniora and his allies accuse Hizballah of pushing an agenda on behalf of Iran and Syria. The frail government has survived strikes and an indefinite opposition sit-in that has paralyzed central Beirut. It retains broad support among Lebanese Sunnis and Druze, and the sympathy of moderate Arab states and the West. The Shi'ite community, Lebanon's largest sect, overwhelmingly sides with the Hizballah-led opposition. Lebanon's Christians are divided between the two camps. As a result, analysts say, the country...
Nonetheless, a Hizballah official in south Lebanon confirmed to TIME that there was at least one meeting between Spanish UNIFIL officers and Hizballah representatives after the bomb attack. Furthermore, Hizballah officials have met with Spanish diplomats in Beirut and the Madrid government is believed to have held talks with Iran, Hizballah's patron, on the safety of its peacekeepers. At least one other European contingent enjoys regular direct contact with Hizballah, finessing Graziano's order by using a civilian advisor who was hired outside the UNIFIL framework...