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		<title>La Syrie en six scenarii et une bonne dose d&#8217;élucubrations géopolitiques</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 12:27:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Peut-on imaginer un pire article sur la crise syrienne que celui paru dans Le Mondece mardi ? Si vous l&#8217;avez raté, retrouver l&#8217;article de Hosham Dawod, &#8220;Quand le régime syrien tombera&#8221;, ici. L’analyse politique y est réduite au plus bas degré d’une discussion de comptoir au café de commerce&#8230; mais cette fois estampillée « CNRS ».  Son auteur est [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=worriedlebanese.wordpress.com&amp;blog=451353&amp;post=2905&amp;subd=worriedlebanese&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Les effets de la transition syrienne: rébellion, réforme ou révolution?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jul 2011 11:30:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>worriedlebanese</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Le niveau de la contestation politique en Syrie est tel que l&#8217;on peut parler de rébellion. La grande question que tout le monde se pose est de savoir si cette rébellion va être écrasée ou si elle va renverser le régime en place. Il est indéniable que la Syrie s&#8217;est engagée dans une période &#8220;transitoire&#8221; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=worriedlebanese.wordpress.com&amp;blog=451353&amp;post=2897&amp;subd=worriedlebanese&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is Lebanon a failed state?</title>
		<link>http://worriedlebanese.wordpress.com/2011/07/15/is-lebanon-a-failed-state/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 20:19:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>worriedlebanese</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;By most common metrics Lebanon is essentially a failed state&#8221;. With these words Ghassan Karam began a post on Hezbollah on one of his blogs: Rational Republic. And as you might expect, that sentence started my blood boiling. Failed state?! by what common metrics?! I asked him the question and started looking into the indicators commonly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=worriedlebanese.wordpress.com&amp;blog=451353&amp;post=2893&amp;subd=worriedlebanese&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A qui confier la direction générale de la Sûreté générale?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2011 02:04:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>worriedlebanese</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Suite au décès de Wafic Jezzini, le poste de Directeur de la Sûreté Générale est vacant. En cela il n&#8217;a rien d&#8217;extraordinaire. Il ne fait que rejoindre la centaine de postes vacants qui attendent que le Conseil des ministres procède aux nominations nécessaires pour les remplir&#8230; Et cela fait de nombreuses années que le Conseil [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=worriedlebanese.wordpress.com&amp;blog=451353&amp;post=2887&amp;subd=worriedlebanese&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The metamorphoses of the Jumblatt bloc</title>
		<link>http://worriedlebanese.wordpress.com/2011/07/13/the-metamorphoses-of-the-jumblatt-bloc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 17:05:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>worriedlebanese</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of weeks ago, Walid Jumblatt announced the dismantling of the &#8220;Democratic Gathering&#8221;, a parliamentary bloc that he&#8217;s been heading for over a decade. He also revealed the creation of a new parliamentary bloc called  the &#8220;National Struggle&#8221; grouping the 7 MPs belonging to the Democratic Gathering who nominated Nagib Miqati to the premiership: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=worriedlebanese.wordpress.com&amp;blog=451353&amp;post=2875&amp;subd=worriedlebanese&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Esquisse d&#8217;une opposition en 7 heures et trois minutes</title>
		<link>http://worriedlebanese.wordpress.com/2011/07/09/esquisse-dune-opposition-en-7-heures-et-trois-minutes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jul 2011 19:15:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>worriedlebanese</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mon intention première était d&#8217;analyser les trois journées de débats qui ont précédés le vote de confiance. Mais malheureusement, j&#8217;ai commis l&#8217;erreur de les suivre sur L&#8217;Orient-Le Jour. Ceci revenait à accompagner de très près un camp, celui du XIV Mars®, et de très loin l&#8217;autre, celui du gouvernement. Certes, un article de Scarlett Haddad [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=worriedlebanese.wordpress.com&amp;blog=451353&amp;post=2851&amp;subd=worriedlebanese&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Retours Martyrologiques</title>
		<link>http://worriedlebanese.wordpress.com/2011/07/07/retours-martyrologiques/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 19:20:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>worriedlebanese</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[En lisant le discours de Ziad Qadri, j&#8217;ai appris que son père avait été assassiné. Cela m&#8217;a surpris parce que le nom de Nazim Qadri ne figure pas dans la liste des Martyrs du XIV Mars qui est souvent scandée par les politiciens ou les journalistes&#8230; et qui d&#8217;ailleurs est de temps en temps illustrée [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=worriedlebanese.wordpress.com&amp;blog=451353&amp;post=2863&amp;subd=worriedlebanese&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Talal Arslan&#8217;s resignation remembered</title>
		<link>http://worriedlebanese.wordpress.com/2011/06/28/talal-arslans-resignation-remembered/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 12:31:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>worriedlebanese</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend of mine under another post asked me to comment on Talal Arslan&#8217;s resignation. Here are my thoughts on that issue, ones I have actually already expressed on facebook: Minutes after the announcement of the new government, Talal Arslan resigned from the government. This resignation highlights a lot questions surrounding the whole formation process. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=worriedlebanese.wordpress.com&amp;blog=451353&amp;post=2838&amp;subd=worriedlebanese&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Détournement de Fond&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://worriedlebanese.wordpress.com/2011/06/27/elie-fayad/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 10:48:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Titre: &#8220;Détournement de Fond&#8220; Auteur: d&#8217;Élie Fayad. Date: Jeudi 23 Juin 2011. Genre: Editorial&#8230; Exercice littéraire, accessoirement journalistique (puisque ce genre d&#8217;article ne contient pas d&#8217;informations, mais quelques allusions à des faits – pas nécessairement avérés – ou plutôt à des dires). Exercice en fait éminemment politique mais d&#8217;un genre particulier. Généralement, il se réduit [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=worriedlebanese.wordpress.com&amp;blog=451353&amp;post=2830&amp;subd=worriedlebanese&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lebanese IPBs: Informal political bodies</title>
		<link>http://worriedlebanese.wordpress.com/2011/06/19/informal-political-bodies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jun 2011 21:27:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>worriedlebanese</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Monday, the Lebanese Presidential palace announced the formation of a new government. The following day, the two political groups that were the most affected by the governmental change convened: The Future Movement called its MPs, the Free Patriotic Movement called its Ministers&#8230; These two parties were undoubtedly entering a new phase in their history. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=worriedlebanese.wordpress.com&amp;blog=451353&amp;post=2845&amp;subd=worriedlebanese&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Habemus Majlisan!</title>
		<link>http://worriedlebanese.wordpress.com/2011/06/14/habemus-majlisan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 14:18:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>worriedlebanese</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cinq mois de gestation – &#8220;autant qu&#8217;une chèvre&#8221;, comme l&#8217;a remarqué une amie – pour que le Liban accouche d&#8217;un gouvernement. On s&#8217;attendait à un changement notable, à un gouvernement tourné vers l&#8217;avenir. C&#8217;est peut-être ce que nous réservait la formule initiale de Nagib Miqati. Mais c&#8217;est finalement Nabih Berri qui a fait accoucher un [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=worriedlebanese.wordpress.com&amp;blog=451353&amp;post=2818&amp;subd=worriedlebanese&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The great awakening of Syrian sectarianism</title>
		<link>http://worriedlebanese.wordpress.com/2011/06/13/the-great-awakening-of-syrian-sectarianism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 00:20:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>worriedlebanese</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Civil Society]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I listened to the news today from Syria, I had a strange feeling of having heard that story before. The people interviewed were giving their version of the events in Jisr al-Shughur&#8230; but the stories they told were exactly like the ones I heard about Dar&#8217;a a couple of weeks back: - Massacres of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=worriedlebanese.wordpress.com&amp;blog=451353&amp;post=2807&amp;subd=worriedlebanese&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to obscure legitimate criticism by stuffing it with rubbish</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 07:14:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When an argument is blatantly stupid, I tend to ignore it. But Brigadier Amine Hoteit&#8217;s take on Harirism is so shockingly bad that I couldn&#8217;t simply ignore it. Like most cases of sloppy argumentation, it says more about the author than the subject he is supposed to be tackling. As I&#8217;ve done in numerous times [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=worriedlebanese.wordpress.com&amp;blog=451353&amp;post=2794&amp;subd=worriedlebanese&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nadim Shehade&#8217;s interesting take on &#8220;Sectarianism&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://worriedlebanese.wordpress.com/2011/04/27/nadim-shehades-interesting-take-on-sectarianism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 09:21:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>worriedlebanese</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Discourse]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nadim Shehade, made an extremely interesting contribution last week to a discussion launched by Elias Muhanna on his blog Qifa Nabki. I was at first struck by the way he introduced the subject. It reminded me of the clumsy attempt I had made a couple of years back to respond to Nawaf Salam&#8217;s take on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=worriedlebanese.wordpress.com&amp;blog=451353&amp;post=2787&amp;subd=worriedlebanese&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Should the President be entitled to a share in government?</title>
		<link>http://worriedlebanese.wordpress.com/2011/04/26/should-the-president-be-entitled-to-a-governmental-share/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2011 22:24:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>worriedlebanese</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Constitution]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There has been a lot of discussions lately revolving around the presidential share in government. And most opinions can be divided into three categories according to the analysts political preferences: there are those who are hostile to Michel Aoun (and they tend to somewhat favour Michel Suleiman but only in ways that can frustrate Michel [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=worriedlebanese.wordpress.com&amp;blog=451353&amp;post=2776&amp;subd=worriedlebanese&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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