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		<title>Government formation… what lesson learnt?</title>
		<link>http://worriedlebanese.wordpress.com/2009/11/11/government-formation%e2%80%a6-what-lessons-learnt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:59:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Analytical difficulties
An informed analysis is tributary to the access to the relevant information. The problem one encounters in studying the cabinet formation process is not the lack of public discussion on the matter, but the lack of reliable information. This is true for several reasons:

The discussion was mostly polemical. Oddly enough it was limited to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=worriedlebanese.wordpress.com&blog=451353&post=1941&subd=worriedlebanese&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Government composition&#8230; a closer look.</title>
		<link>http://worriedlebanese.wordpress.com/2009/11/10/government-formation-closer-loo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:07:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What can we learn from the result? Let&#8217;s have a quick look at the picture of the new government to see what&#8217;s new, and what trend has been confirmed. Once this is done, we&#8217;ll have a glance on some basic rules that were followed in this 4 month long process of government formation.
What&#8217;s new:

Less than [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=worriedlebanese.wordpress.com&blog=451353&post=1930&subd=worriedlebanese&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Week&#8217;s highlight: the weapons issue</title>
		<link>http://worriedlebanese.wordpress.com/2009/11/08/weeks-highlight-the-weapons-issue/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:48:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>worriedlebanese</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Weapons sparked three debates this week. It all started when the Israeli military fished a weapon cargo heading to Beirut. Then the Maronite patriarch made a speech on how weapons and democracy were mutually exclusive and finally the head of the FPM Michel Aoun criticised the Patriarch&#8217;s speech and added that if he had the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=worriedlebanese.wordpress.com&blog=451353&post=1923&subd=worriedlebanese&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>David Issa on MTV, political analysis gone astray</title>
		<link>http://worriedlebanese.wordpress.com/2009/11/07/david-issa-on-mtv-political-analysis-gone-astray/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>worriedlebanese</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This guy is obviously angry&#8230; and in need of recognition. During his hour long discussion on MTV (a resurrected Lebanese TV channel), his voice showed an emotional range that varied from displeasure to exasperation to indignity to outrage. At a random moment I decided to count how many times he repeated &#8220;I&#8221; in one minute: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=worriedlebanese.wordpress.com&blog=451353&post=1912&subd=worriedlebanese&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Recipe for a fruitful discussion</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 10:25:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bring a thread, not a woven carpet!
I was reading a couple of blogs today, vast discussions debating over the best solution to the Palestinian question (the more realistic, the more equitable, the more profitable&#8230;). Bloggers were parrotting  politicians, proposing package deals and behaving like merchants, trying to sell the best product, the miracle pill.
It reminded [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=worriedlebanese.wordpress.com&blog=451353&post=1894&subd=worriedlebanese&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lueur d&#8217;espoir à l&#8217;Orient-Le Jour?</title>
		<link>http://worriedlebanese.wordpress.com/2009/11/06/lueur-despoir-a-lorient-le-jour/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:52:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>worriedlebanese</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Dans l&#8217;édition d&#8217;aujourd&#8217;hui, Mahmoud Harb partage avec ses lecteurs son point de vue sur le processus de formation du gouvernement dans un article intitulé &#8220;À propos d’une pantalonnade&#8220;. L&#8217;éditorialiste est manifestement de plus en plus las de son camp politique (même s&#8217;il continue à le préférer au camp adverse). Et il semble inconfortable dans [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=worriedlebanese.wordpress.com&blog=451353&post=1891&subd=worriedlebanese&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Student elections echo the country&#8217;s woes</title>
		<link>http://worriedlebanese.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/student-elections-echo-the-countrys-woes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:39:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>worriedlebanese</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I followed quite closely this year&#8217;s student elections back at my Alma Mater. The picture wasn&#8217;t a pretty one. If you took the time to read the Daily Star, l&#8217;Orient-Le Jour, An-Nahar, As-Safir, lebanese-forces.org and Tayyar.org, it might just kill your hopes for a better future. Here are the highlights:

the university changed the electoral law without [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=worriedlebanese.wordpress.com&blog=451353&post=1867&subd=worriedlebanese&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Interpreting death &amp; giving freedom a bad name</title>
		<link>http://worriedlebanese.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/interpreting-death-giving-freedom-a-bad-name/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:41:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>worriedlebanese</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just came back from the screening of Marmoulak (the Lizard) at the Samir Kassir Foundation. I didn&#8217;t have the time to sit through the whole film and as the subtitles were hard to decipher (white on white), I let my mind drift around the room and the event.
Why on earth did the Samir Kassir [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=worriedlebanese.wordpress.com&blog=451353&post=1877&subd=worriedlebanese&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>All Soul&#8217;s Day blues</title>
		<link>http://worriedlebanese.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/all-souls-day-blues/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:29:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>worriedlebanese</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I drove back home today in the pouring rain, I noticed three women entering a cemetery holding flowers (and umbrellas). They were probably visiting a relative&#8217;s grave. The neighbourhood they were in is a strange one. It&#8217;s made up of six or seven walled in cemeteries, each belonging to a different community. Most cemeteries [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=worriedlebanese.wordpress.com&blog=451353&post=1883&subd=worriedlebanese&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lebanese journalism under Proposition 7</title>
		<link>http://worriedlebanese.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/lebanese-journalism-under-proposition-7/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:54:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Regular readers of Lebanese newspapers have come to realise that &#8220;news&#8221; here is a misnomer. Not only there&#8217;s hardly anything new in what journalists lengthily discuss, but there&#8217;s very little factual substance in it. I don&#8217;t mean to demean our national press or rant and rave for the sake of it. Just pick any article [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=worriedlebanese.wordpress.com&blog=451353&post=1862&subd=worriedlebanese&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Blogging: beside the point&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://worriedlebanese.wordpress.com/2009/10/22/blogging-beside-the-point/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been almost a month I haven&#8217;t blogged. And as usual, I wonder if there&#8217;s a point to all this. Why do people blog? Why do others read blog postings? Is it a waste of time? What kind of need does it answer? I don&#8217;t know.
I&#8217;m going to give it another chance in these coming [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=worriedlebanese.wordpress.com&blog=451353&post=1857&subd=worriedlebanese&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Leaders, Spectators &amp; Clowns: the UN&#8217;s General Assembly&#8217;s 64th session</title>
		<link>http://worriedlebanese.wordpress.com/2009/09/25/leaders-spectators-clowns-the-uns-general-assemblys-64th-session/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:31:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The contrast between these four men is striking. One could easily say that in this world Assembly, they are &#8220;worlds apart&#8221;. On one hand you&#8217;ve got a world/worldly leader, on the other three buffoons with very distinct styles.
Obama knew very well who his audience was, and he spoke to them in his habitual clear and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=worriedlebanese.wordpress.com&blog=451353&post=1843&subd=worriedlebanese&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How they helped defeat Farouk Hosny (the story)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:04:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before delving into the analysis, let&#8217;s set the record straight. I won&#8217;t be looking into the dirty politics behind these elections. I do have some crusty insider information on some dirty play, but it&#8217;s closer to gossip than meaningful information, and strictly off topic. What we&#8217;ll be looking into is the public debate that surrounded [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=worriedlebanese.wordpress.com&blog=451353&post=1810&subd=worriedlebanese&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>عيد مبارك &amp; שנה טובה</title>
		<link>http://worriedlebanese.wordpress.com/2009/09/18/%d8%b9%d9%8a%d8%af-%d9%85%d8%a8%d8%a7%d8%b1%d9%83-%d7%a9%d7%a0%d7%94-%d7%98%d7%95%d7%91%d7%94/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 07:19:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Americans speak of the &#8220;wall of separation&#8221;, they mean the principle of separation between &#8220;Church&#8221; and State (i.e. Religion &#38; Government). The expression takes a whole different meaning in our region, doesn&#8217;t it?
Well, I thought the title of this post (transliterated: Eid Mubarak and Shana Tova, translated: Blessed Feast and Happy New Year) reflects [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=worriedlebanese.wordpress.com&blog=451353&post=1799&subd=worriedlebanese&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Looking into the central alliance behind the Opposition®</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 08:52:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How consistent are political alliances in Lebanon and what effects do they have ? These are two important questions that Ghassan Saoud deals with indirectly in his article published by al-Akhbar: &#8220;العونيون لحزب الله: &#8220;العتب على قد المحبة (Aounists to Hezbollah: &#8220;reproaches  equal to affection&#8221;). I discovered this article yesterday thanks to Remarkz&#8217;s post on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=worriedlebanese.wordpress.com&blog=451353&post=1782&subd=worriedlebanese&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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