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Lebanese President Michel Aoun sits on the presidential chair at the presidential palace in Baabda, east of Beirut, on October 31, 2016. (AFP/Patrick Baz)


Perils of Doing a De Gaulle in Lebanon

Perils of Doing a De Gaulle in Lebanon

by | Feb 10, 2017 | Opinion

“Lebanon’s De Gaulle!” This was the sobriquet that Parisian political circles used for General Michel Aoun as he arrived in France as an asylum-seeker in 1991. The sobriquet was not totally fanciful. Like De Gaulle, Aoun was a soldier, in his case having one star more...