It was not the Bush administration that conducted a campaign of terror in Beirut, assassinating Lebanese politicians, journalists and civil society activists,"

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

He told a news conference in Beirut that Lebanon and the U.N.disagree on the demarcation of the border.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

Hilal Kashan,Professor of Politics at the American University of Beirut, thinks it is unlikely the United States will take Mr.Assad up on his offer.

VOA: standard.2009.03.18

"It's a long awaited step." Paul Salem,who heads the Beirut-based Carnegie Middle East Center, thinks that President Obama's trip to Cairo is likely to have positive reverberations across the Arab world.

VOA: standard.2009.05.09

Political analyst Amr Hamzawy of the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut says that while Egypt has yet to reconcile Hamas and Fatah, at least it approaches the issue with a peace-based agenda, something no one else has done.

VOA: standard.2009.11.03

The release of the men, however,is causing a political fury in Beirut, where the men, with the support of Hezbollah and its allies, have begun lambasting the government, as well as the Lebanese judiciary system, for "wrongfully arresting them."

VOA: standard.2009.04.30

The head of the Beirut-based Carnegie Center for Peace in the Middle East,Paul Salem, says Arab states like Libya and Egypt are trying to demonstrate they are independent of the West by striking a middle-ground with respect to President Bashir.

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

State Department Spokesman Ian Kelly said Mitchell,on his fourth trip to the region since assuming the envoy post in January, will stop in Beirut Thursday and Damascus Friday and Saturday after Jerusalem-based meetings with Israeli and Palestinian officials.

VOA: standard.2009.06.09

Damascus has steadfastly denied the charges. Hilal Kashan, professor of political science at the American University of Beirut, thinks that the Hezbollah-led opposition scored a big victory with the general's release and could win the parliamentary elections because of it:"The opposition is using the release of the 4 senior officers as a moral victory, and says for the past 3 years and 8 months, four officers were jailed for no reason, whatsoever and they are coming hard on the Lebanese legal system and the process the Lebanese government, and they say this is the beginning,"

VOA: standard.2009.04.30