(Download) "Why Lebanon is Immune from Arab Popular Uprisings (Arab-Uprisings)" by The Weekly Middle East Reporter (Beirut, Lebanon) * eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Why Lebanon is Immune from Arab Popular Uprisings (Arab-Uprisings)
- Author : The Weekly Middle East Reporter (Beirut, Lebanon)
- Release Date : January 26, 2011
- Genre: Reference,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 60 KB
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The Lebanese people, who cherish their freedom and independence, are watching dictators and authoritarian regime being ousted by a wave of massive popular uprisings around them. Although they have in past years suffered the devastating consequences of several Israeli attacks as well as internal civil wars as a result of deep-rooted political differences between rival factions vying for power and influence in the multi-sectarian country, the majority of the Lebanese and their feuding leaders appear to be confident that Lebanon is immune from the wave of public protests currently engulfing some Arab countries demanding either a regime change or radical political and economic reforms. Talal Salman, publisher of the Lebanese leftist newspaper AS SAFIR, which strongly supports the popular revolts that have so far led to the overthrow of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Tunisian President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali summed it up in this headline of a front-page editorial on Feb. 21: "Lebanon and the Change Movement: There Is No Tahrir Square in Beirut." Salman was referring to the famous Tahrir (Arabic for liberation) Square in central Cairo where Egyptian protesters, estimated in some cases at more than a million, had gathered for 18 straight days that eventually resulted in the overthrow of Mubarak's regime.