Word: hariri
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...summons came down from Damascus last August, informing Rafiq Hariri, then the Prime Minister of Lebanon, that he was wanted for a meeting with Syrian President Bashar Assad. For years Hariri had strived to maintain cordial relations with Lebanon's more powerful neighbor, acquiescing to Syria's domination of Lebanese politics as the price of Syria's role in ending Lebanon's 15-year civil war. But by last summer Assad suspected that Hariri was behind an international campaign to end Syria's occupation of Lebanon, and so he decided to warn Hariri not to oppose Syrian plans to reassert...
...expected to complete the withdrawal of its 15,000 troops in Lebanon in time to win favorable comments in a United Nations report due out this week. With a new political era dawning, citizens learned the name of the man who may be their future Prime Minister: Saad Hariri, son of Rafik Hariri, the billionaire tycoon and popular politician whose assassination on Feb. 14 triggered the mass protests and international pressure that forced Syria to pull out its forces. Last week, the Hariri family formally announced that Saad, 35, one of Hariri's four sons from two marriages, would take...
David J. Thompson, the public relations coordinator for the Hariri Foundation in the United States, said the foundation will continue to promote Hariri’s mission of education...
...whole [Hariri] family is dedicated to the cause of Lebanon, and especially to building up its human resources through education,” Thompson said. “I anticipate that dedication will not change...
...message posted on the KSG website, Dean David T. Ellwood ’75 called Hariri “a distinguished member of the Kennedy School’s extended family” and expressed sadness over the death of “one of the most influential and most forward-looking leaders in the Middle East...