Coinciding with my article in the National about Hezbollah’s changing relationship with Lebanon’s Shia comes two bits of news about the Party:

First, a new survey by the Pew Research Center’s Global Attitudes Project which finds that Hezbollah has the support of 35% of the Lebanese population,…

I have the cover story in this week’s Review section of the Abu Dhabi National, on the saga of Salah Ezzedine, the “Lebanese Bernie Madoff,” and the implications of that scandal on Hezbollah’s relationship with its Shia base.

Here’s the start, but jump over to The National to read the whole…

In my post the other day, about the Ethiopian funeral in Sebtiyeh on Sunday, I mentioned that some officials from the Ethiopian Consulate here in Beirut stopped by to pay their respects and distribute their personal mobile numbers. Yesterday, I called one of those numbers, and was pleasantly…

Yesterday morning, I went with the photojournalist Matthew Cassel (Just Image) to the Ethiopian Full Gospel Church, in Sebtiyeh, just outside of Beirut, for Sunday services and the funeral of one of the congregants, Hany Gebre, who died in the crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409 last…