The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) interviewed Chris Clark, this year's co-winner of the prestigious Nansen Refugee Award. Clark has spent half his life working in dangerous environments, first as a decorated soldier with the British army and more recently as the coordinator of mine clearance programs in war-ravaged nations in Europe, Africa and the Middle East.|Full Story
The following is an exclusive interview with Druze leader MP Walid Jumblatt conducted by World Security Network (WSN) Broader Middle East Editor Manuela Paraipan, currently on a third fact finding mission in Lebanon. The exclusive WSN interview, which was published on Thursday gives an interesting insight into the complicated and fragile political situation in Lebanon.|Full Story
Q: Last week two US warships were deployed off the coast of Lebanon. US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said that the move was meant to stress that the United States is able to defend its friends' interests in the region. Is Syria the reason for the deployment? A: Well, I think it's pretty clear what the sources of instability in the region are.|Full Story
Q: How will the people of Gaza get new supplies? A: "There is an understanding with the Egyptians to supply Gaza with its needs and we are talking about arrangements and a mechanism to make that happen.|Full Story
Hizbullah's fighters and arms should be blended into the Lebanese Army and security forces, presidential candidate and Democratic Renewal leader Nassib Lahoud told The Daily Star in an exclusive interview. Lahoud, a 62-year-old engineer who was educated partly in England, has been put forward with MP Butros Harb by the ruling March 14 coalition.|Full Story
His father, the late prime minister of Lebanon and the man who rebuilt Beirut, Rafik Hariri, was assassinated in 2005. The prime minister's death spurred Lebanese to take to the streets in daily protests until Syria, thought to be behind the killing, withdrew its troops from the country.|Full Story
Palestinian-born doctor Ashraf Juma Hajjuj is slowly learning to live again after "nine years of my life were destroyed" in a Libyan jail, where he was tortured and sexually abused. Hajjuj, who was detained in prison for eight-and-a-half years with five Bulgarian medics on charges of infecting more than 400 children with HIV-tainted blood.|Full Story
