Antoine Ghanem

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Tony Badran writes in today's Daily Star: The Syrian regime would seem to be right on program. That much was clear from the assassination of parliamentarian Antoine Ghanem on Wednesday, six days before Parliament is scheduled to meet to elect a new president. The assassination was, regrettably, predictable and carried a number of messages, both to the Lebanese and to key international players involved with Lebanon. The response by the March 14 coalition and the international community must be stern and unambiguous. The first message was a Lebanese one. Ghanem, like many colleagues, had spent time abroad out of fear of assassination to put ... Read Full Story

El DJ Antoine Clamaran acaba de publicar el videoclip oficial de “ Reach For The Stars “, segundo sencillo extraido de su álbum “Spotlight” Click here to view the embedded video. Read Full Story

The upcoming election of the President of the Republic and the lethal assault against the Member of Parliament Antoine Ghanem have once more put Lebanon in the spotlight. Arabmonitor focussed on this issue in its talks with Karim Pakradouni, chairman of the Kataeb, the Phalange Party, a historic political force in Lebanon sustained mainly by the Maronite community. What prospects are there for an agreement to be reached from now until 23rd October, over the name of a candidate for the Lebanese presidency, who would enjoy support from all the Lebanese political forces, given that up to now the prevailing impression was that the ... Read Full Story

Nicholas Blanford writes in CSM: An anti-Syrian Lebanese lawmaker was killed Wednesday in a large car-bomb explosion in east Beirut, just six days before parliament is scheduled to elect a new president. The death of Antoine Ghanem, a Christian parliamentarian, may delay the election, which has already aggravated a bitter year-long political dispute between pro- and anti-Syrian factions here. Mr. Ghanem died along with at least nine other people when, according to Lebanese officials, a car bomb packed with an estimated 80 pounds of explosives blew up at a junction of a busy street in the Sin al-Fil district of Beirut during the evening ... Read Full Story