Farid el khazen biography of martin
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Delayed, indirect election of the Lebanese president
An indirect election of the president of Lebanon took place from 29 September until 9 January to determine the successor of term-limited incumbent Michel Aoun.[1] The commander of the Lebanese Armed Forces, Joseph Aoun (no close relation to Michel),[2] was elected president in the second round of voting of the thirteenth parliamentary session on 9 January , securing 99 votes. He took office on the same day while keeping his position as the commander of the Lebanese Forces, becoming the 14th president and the fifth army commander to assume the role.
Under Article 49 of Lebanese constitution, in the first round of an electoral session, a qualified majority of two-thirds of the members of the Lebanese Parliament is required to elect the President. If no candidate reaches that threshold, further rounds of voting are held, where an absolute majority of all MPs is sufficient to
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Christian Political Activism in Lebanon: A Revival of Religious Nationalism in Times of Arab Upheavals
bs_bs_banner Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism: Vol. 18, No. 1, Christian Political Activism in Lebanon: A Revival of Religious Nationalism in Times of Arab Upheavals Maximilian Felsch* Haigazian University Abstract In response to the spread of Islamic extremism and the Christian exodus in most of the mittpunkt East, many Lebanese Christians are opting for an isolationist, religiousnationalist policy, aimed at internal self-determination and national herravälde. By doing so, they not only accept a further national disintegration of Lebanon’s kultur, but they also prevent essential democratic reforms. Following Georg Jellinek’s three elements theory of the state, the paper analyzes Lebanese Christian nationalism in terms of its territorial, population, and state power dimensions. Introduction Pity the nation divided into fragments, each fragment deeming itself a nation. (Khalil Gi
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The Palestinian Resistance Movement In Lebanon – Survival, Challenges, and Opportunities
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This article addresses the issue of the Palestinian resistance movement and its evolution and survival in the deeply divided state of Lebanon between and The Arab defeat in the war allowed the Palestinian resistance to present itself as the main resistance movement in the Arab World, and this automatically gave the Palestinians wider support in the Arab World. However, clashes between the Palestinian resistance and the right-wing Lebanese factions (who opposed the Palestinians and their military presence in Lebanon) eroded support for the Palestinian resistance, especially as the divisions and frictions spread during the Lebanese Civil War. This created seemingly endless clashes between the Palestinians and the Lebanese. These developments led to the fragmentation of the Palestinian resistance,