Tag: Revolution

Lebanon’s Revolution: A Personal Perspective

The hardest decision of my lifeI saw him in the tear gas attack. All I wanted was to run towards him. But instead, I was running the other way, because it was just infeasible to go through thousands of protesters — it was physically impossible to survive the attempt. And yet, that was the hardest […]

The first 100 days of a Libyan Government of National Accord

Getting the conflicting parties in Libya to agree to dialogue has been a long and frustrating process for Bernardino Leon, the Secretary General of the UN’s envoy to Libya. A draft agreement recently made public calls for a Government of National Accord, a unity government which would bridge the chaos currently enveloping the North African […]