Lebanon

Is the UK pushing a false narrative on Hezbollah?

Ban on Hezbollah will criminalise dissent and become part of a gamut of law and policy the state uses to silence criticism In 2006, there was a war – another onslaught by the invincible Israeli war machine. Despite a media bias so palpable that even the BBC found itself guilty in a review of

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Lebanon’s Forgotten Hostage

Arzu Merali looks at the case of Sheikh Abdulkareem Obaid, and the wider issues of the Israeli occupation of South Lebanon. Saged is 15 years old. Like many boys, he wants to be like his father. An architect and Muslim cleric, Abdulkareem Obaid is also one of dozens of hostages abducted from

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