Head of the Lebanese National Bloc and Right to Nonviolence advisory council member Amid Carlos Eddé, interviewed 12 September by L’Orient Le Jour, pointedly criticised recent comments of Lebanese Patriarch Bechara Rai defending the Syrian government. Noting the clear ethical misreading in supporting oppression, against a two-thousand year Christian tradition, Amid Eddé also highlighted the strategic as well […]
“Is it not wiser, albeit perhaps more frustrating, to keep the revolution pure in the tenacity of its nonviolence, rather than lose the absolute moral superiority against violent rulers?” Ahram Online Chibli Mallat, Tuesday 30 Aug 2011 One hesitates to congratulate our Libyan colleagues on the success of their Revolution. This is not to dampen the […]
Mallat on Imam Sadr’s case: exclusive interview with the Daily Star Annual tribute to Sadr extra special this year By Wassim Mroueh Mallat: It would be difficult to indict Gadhafi before the ICC over Sadr’s case. BEIRUT: The anniversary of the disappearance of Imam Musa Sadr is commemorated every year on the last day of August, […]
How to manage a democratic transition after the revolution Chibli Mallat Elections wreck revolutions. This lesson was learnt the hard way in Lebanon when the massive coalition that gathered on March 14, 2005 to demand “Syria out” drifted away as its many leaders squabbled over parliamentary elections in localised Byzantine politics. In the early […]
I am an eternal optimistic and see many opportunities in the current situation. At least, the immobilism of the past is gone, and the search for better outcomes is ongoing: Prof. Ishac Diwan is a leading international development economist with a formidable record of applied experience with the World Bank spanning more than two decades […]
In an exclusive interview with distinguished correspondent Rima Zahar of the leading Arab website Elaph, RN Chairman Chibli Mallat highlighted some of the key lessons of the collapse of the Qaddafi regime. Noting that the Libyan Revolution was the only one where violence was used by the protesters, he underlined the importance for other revolutions underway […]
