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PM-designate Saad Hariri attending Sunday’s Marathon in Beirut/NNA

Hariri Says Political Parties Competing on Portfolios

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Nov 14, 2016 | Middle East

Beirut- Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri said on Sunday there is a “race” on the ministerial portfolios as efforts mounted to announce the creation of the new cabinet before the Nov. 22 Independence Day by removing the obstacles facing the government lineup. The...

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Kataeb Party leader MP Sami Gemayel meets with Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi in Bkirki on Friday November 11, 2016. NNA

Lebanon: Kataeb Party Heads Towards Participation in New Government

by Paula Astih | Nov 12, 2016 | Middle East

Beirut-Lebanon’s Kataeb Party will likely become a member of the new government, which Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri is working on forming, a position that would secure the participation of the country’s main parties in the new cabinet months before the...

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Opinion: Sami Gemayel – A Lebanese Political Phenomenon

by Eyad Abu Shakra | Apr 19, 2016 | Opinion

The Gemayel family, which produced several prominent Lebanese politicians, never really enjoyed nationwide support. The reason being that Sheikh Pierre Gemayel, the family’s ‘patriarch’ founded a political party with candid sectarian overtones in 1936. Indeed,...