TAIBE, Lebanon (June 14, 2009) — What’s next for the Party of God? We might expect a period of cooler rhetoric, but barring a tectonic shift in regional power, Hezbollah will probably keep its formidable arsenal cocked and ready to fight Israel and anyone who threatens to disarm its very powerful militia. And though American… »
TAIBE and BEIRUT, Lebanon (June 14, 2009) — After 15 years directing Hezbollah’s in-house think tank, Ali Fayyad stood for parliament and won one of Hezbollah’s 11 seats in the June 7, 2009 election. I sat with him the day before the election and again… »
BEIRUT, Lebanon (June 5, 2009) – Hezbollah already won what they called a “Divine Victory” in the war with Israel in 2006; by comparison their success at the polls in the 2009 elections seems like a sideshow – and a foregone conclusion.
The Lebanese vote… »
In a city of fat cats and streetwise Area Boys, Lagos journalist Kirk Leigh performs a professional balancing act.
LAGOS, NIGERIA — Lagos is famous for its Area Boys. They are… »
Nigeria is clamping down on its infamous email scammers. But it is law enforcement enough?
LAGOS, NIGERIA — Remember that Nigerian prince who contacted you a few months back, saying he… »
NEW YORK — The incoming Obama administration has inherited a “New Middle East” conspicuously like the old one that predated President George W. Bush’s Global War on Terror. In Lebanon… »
Bilo plodded back into the living room, his hacking cough announcing his arrival. One arm was carefully wrapped around a folder of dress sketches, dating from the 1960s to 2000…. »
His eyes flickered every few seconds to Barack Obama’s face on the television set. The President was giving a White House press conference with Pakistan’s President Asif Zardari and Afghanistan’s… »
AYTA AL SHAAB, Lebanon (January 2009) — The hue and furor over the humanitarian cost of the Gaza conflict have obscured the matter on which Israel’s campaign against Hamas ultimately will… »