Lebanon: Currents of Conflict

Syndicated from Tadamon on Tue, 2008-05-13

An interview with Bilal Elamine in Beirut, Lebanon.

Photo: Al-Akbar, youth protests in Beirut.

Conflict in Lebanon has spread in the past week beyond Beirut, to mountain areas above the capital city, to Tripoli in Northern Lebanon. Throughout Lebanon a tense political stand-off remains between the U.S.-backed government lead-by Prime Minister Fouad Siniora and a political opposition [...]