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Farid el Khazen
in the News
Local News
Media
July, 2005
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Al-Anwar of
July 17
interviewed new MP Farid Al-Khazen on his political views
and achievements. Dr. Al-Khazen, who expressed his opinion
on the current Lebanese political situation, is the chair of
the Political Science Department at AUB.
May, 2005
March, 2005
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The Daily Star of March 29 published an article by
Dr. Farid El Khazen, chairman of the PSPA Department at AUB,
and a member of the Qornet Shehwan opposition group. Through
his lecture, Dr. El Khazen analyzed the present political
situation after the assassination of former PM Rafic Hariri
on February 14. He talked about the impact of Resolution
1559, and said that the current factors are different from
those that lead to war in 1975.
October, 2004
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L'Orient-Le
Jour of October 8 interviewed PSPA Chairman Dr.
Farid El-Khazen, on the political repercussions of the 1559
Resolution of the Security Council requesting all foreign
military forces to withdraw from Lebanon. He said the
implementation of this resolution will help Lebanon to make
its internal peace.
September, 2004
June, 2004
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The Daily
Star of June 12 reported on the implementation of
reform in the Arab World and interviewed PSPA Professor
Farid El Khazen, who said that "in the absence of September
11, the issue of practical change would be rhetorical."
International
News Media
April,
2005
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The St.
Petersburg Times of April 25, offers a geographic
overview of Lebanon as well as a brief history of it after
World War One. Then it goes on discussing the overwhelming
rise in nationalism after the assassination of former Prime
Minister Hariri, and analyzing the future of the country
after the Syrian withdrawal and the role the United States
has in all this. "U.S. policy then [during the war] was that
Syria was stabilizing Lebanon," says Professor Farid Khazen,
chairman of the political science department at the American
University of Beirut, "Now it’s that Syria is destabilizing
Lebanon." The article then includes a summary of Rafiq
Hariri’s life and achievements, and concludes with some
reflections on the future of the country, "Lebanon has real
potential economically and politically because it’s not
starting from scratch," says Professor Khazen.
March,
2005
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The
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette of March 24 reported on the
Kaslik bombing in a Christian neighborhood in Beirut where
Christians, Sunni and Shiite Muslims and Druze have lived
together in relative harmony since Lebanon’s civil war ended
in 1990. Many Lebanese believe that it and the earlier
explosions were intended to demonstrate that Lebanon still
needed the Syrian security presence to maintain calm, but
Dr. Farid el Khazen, chairman of the American University of
Beirut’s political studies department and an opposition
activist, believed otherwise saying, “The government and
Syria would like to postpone the elections, and this would
be a pretext to say we can’t hold it because of the
violence. Therefore, it will not be surprising if these
criminal acts continue and move from one location to
another." The bombing came a day before the United Nations
is expected to release a report into Hariri’s assassination
and on the same day of the resignation of the Lebanese judge
investigating the case, citing exhaustion.
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Daily sentinel of March 7
reported on the recent phenomenon of protests, sweeping
across the Arab world, where the people have found the
courage to speak up against the ruling body. Among those
interviewed was Fared el-Khazen, chair of the political
science department at the American University of Beirut, who
said, "Without some internal pressure for change, it of
course won't happen. But at the same time, there wouldn't be
an incentive in the Arab world to change without the
pressure created by the removal of Saddam Hussein and the
voting in Iraq, even if it wasn't perfect.”
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Georgetown Times, Journal Inquirer, and Delaware County
Daily Times of March 5 reported on the current
situation in Lebanon, saying that the Opposition leaders
reiterated their skepticism that any announced Syrian
withdrawal would satisfy protesters. "We can't have
elections as long as Syrian troops are in the country," said
Fared al-Khazen, chair of the political science department
at the American University of Beirut and a strategist in the
opposition movement. "Basically, they run the country. So
you cannot have free and fair elections when you have such a
situation.”
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The Seattle Times of March
4 reported on the protests in Lebanon, with interviews
with several of the protestors in Downtown Beirut, mostly
made up of students and members of the younger Lebanese
generation. "This is really unprecedented in Lebanon.
Before, it was always Muslims or Christians, this or that,"
said Fared al-Khazen, chair of political science department
at the American University of Beirut. "Today people are
going to the street every day with one objective:
sovereignty for Lebanon."
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