Aoun leaves the Baabda Presidential Palace on Sunday, Oct. 30, 2022. (Credit: Mohamed Azakir/Reuters)
On Feb. 6, 2006, Michel Aoun and Hassan Nasrallah convened in Beirut’s southern suburb of Mar Mikhael to sign a memorandum of understanding that radically changed the political landscape and course of events in Lebanon.Nearly a year after the political and diplomatic earthquake that the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri caused in Lebanon, this new Free Patriotic Movement-Hezbollah alliance gradually broke the tremendous “Libanist” response that the March 14, 2005 uprising instilled in the country. The term “Libanist” must be construed here as a sovereignist assertion in the face of external tutelage and as a nascent promotion of the idea of belonging to a Lebanese state that transcends sectarian allegiances.What does the Mar Mikhael agreement involve to have crucially contributed to such a turn of history in just one...
On Feb. 6, 2006, Michel Aoun and Hassan Nasrallah convened in Beirut’s southern suburb of Mar Mikhael to sign a memorandum of understanding that radically changed the political landscape and course of events in Lebanon.Nearly a year after the political and diplomatic earthquake that the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri caused in Lebanon, this new Free Patriotic Movement-Hezbollah alliance gradually broke the tremendous “Libanist” response that the March 14, 2005 uprising instilled in the country. The term “Libanist” must be construed here as a sovereignist assertion in the face of external tutelage and as a nascent promotion of the idea of belonging to a Lebanese state that transcends sectarian allegiances.What does the Mar Mikhael agreement involve to have crucially contributed to such a turn of history in...
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