Fatou Bom Bensouda, the Gambian-born deputy prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), was never Washington's first choice to succeed the inveterately self-promoting elitist ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo.
And it is doubtful that key (...)
There are more than 9,000 of them, predominately young, but also of all ages. All of them volunteers, and often risking their lives just to come for a 12-hour work-shift, as many as seven days a week, at the Syrian Arab Republic Red Crescent Society (...)
Church officials in Damascus advanced the hour of last night's traditional Christmas Eve midnight service to 6pm because few Damascenes' venture out past sunset these days. The reasons include ubiquitous checkpoints, security fears and the fact that (...)
New challenges grip Palestinian camps in Lebanon, writes Franklin Lamb from Chatila Camp
The Sabra-Chatila massacre: it seems like a dozen weeks, not 30 years ago. This year American citizens received messages to stay away from Beirut and the annual (...)
The Eid Al-Fitr holiday has been bleak for Palestinians in Lebanon this year, but there are signs of hope, writes Franklin Lamb in Beirut
Remarkably, during this last Ramadan holiday season in Lebanon designees from both the Shia Higher Islamic Shia (...)
The recent killings of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon have turned the spotlight on the harassment and discrimination faced by Palestinians in the country, writes Franklin Lamb in Beirut
The killings of three Palestinian refugees recently, including (...)
Instead of embracing a Mubarak throwback, the Zionist lobby is warming to Mohamed Mursi in Egypt's presidential race, sure he will fail miserably and carry the blame, writes Franklin Lamb from Beirut
The results of the opening round of the historic (...)
After nearly half a year of attempts to form a cabinet, the new Hezbollah-controlled government under the leadership of its Prime Minister Najib Mikati and the 12-member committee tasked with drafting the platform of the new government has (...)
Following last week's collapse of the Al-Hariri government, Hizbullah may now assume responsibility for governing Lebanon, writes Franklin Lamb* in Beirut
"In case no one has noticed, the Obama administration has just gifted Lebanon to Iran. (...)
Nearly 30 years after the massacres at the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in Lebanon, untreated psychic wounds are still open and accountability, justice and basic civil rights for the survivors are still being denied, writes Franklin Lamb*
Scores (...)
The US is backing the naturalisation of Palestinian refugees in any country but Lebanon, while refusing to support their social and economic rights, writes Franklin Lamb* in Beirut
For months, as Lebanon's historic debate over basic civil rights for (...)
Giving the Palestinian refugees the right to work would benefit Lebanon and the refugees, says Franklin Lamb* in Beirut
"These are humanitarian, social and ethical duties, and the Lebanese state must assume the responsibility of providing them to (...)
This letter was written by Franklin Lamb* to Janet Lee Stevens on the anniversary of the from Martyrs' Square in Beirut
It's a very beautiful fall day here in Beirut today. Twenty-five years ago this week since the massacre at the Palestinian (...)
More than six decades after their expulsion from Palestine, Lebanon's unwanted refugees just might be granted some basic civil rights, writes Franklin Lamb* from Ain Al-Helwa Palestinian Refugee Camp
HEBA'S STORY: Granting even the most elementary (...)
Open to all but Hizbullah and its sympathisers, Washington policy is leaving US officials in Lebanon with very few Lebanese counterparts to talk with, writes Franklin Lamb in Beirut
"There is no obstacle to cooperation with any official in the new (...)
Obama is sending shockwaves through the pro-Israel lobby community, if not for his actions then his reluctance to tow the traditional Zionist line, writes Franklin Lamb from South Lebanon
Suddenly they were all over the place, arriving not as (...)
While heavily influenced by Iran, Hizbullah has deep ties across the spectrum of the Iranian elite, writes Franklin Lamb* in Dahiyeh, Beirut
Some legmen for the US Israeli lobby, and even some here in Lebanon, appear barely able to contain (...)
The case of Brigitte Gabriel, anti-Muslim bigot and pro-Israel apologist, highlights the indignity of those that celebrate military aggression against ordinary civilians, writes Franklin Lamb*
"The difference, my dear Christian friends, between (...)