Posts Tagged ‘shia’

Mideast Expert Says Hezbollah Controls Shia In Lebanon

Monday, June 15th, 2009

By Michael Combier-Talk Radio News Service

Middle East Institute Scholar Graeme Bannerman says that the Shia community in Lebanon considers Hezbollah as their mentor and their leader. (0:27)

 
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The “poorly understood” religious leader Muqtada

Friday, June 13th, 2008

At the Center for Strategic and International Studies Nadia Bilbassy-Charters held a discussion with Patrick Cockburn, the author of “Muqtada: Muqtada al-Sadr, the Shia Revival, and the Struggle for Iraq.” Bilbassy-Charters is the Senior Correspondent for Middle East Broadcasting Centre (MBC) TV, and has been with the 101st Marines Division in Kuwait as well as The Sudan People’s Liberation Army. She talked with Cockburn about his new book and the power that the “poorly understood religious leader” Muqtada holds over Iraq. (more…)

Jason Gluck of the United States Institute for Peace Describes a Recent “Monumental Event” for the Iraqi Parliament

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

At a USIP panel discussion, Mr. Gluck discusses the recent simultaneous passage of three important laws by the Iraqi Parliament and the promising political compromise that made it possible. (1:06)

 
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