Michel gabriel el murr biography samples
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A Family Business
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Syrian Workers in Lebanon and the Role of the State: Political Economy and Popular Aspirations
1Note portant sur l’auteur*
2What role has the state played in the migration to Lebanon and return of hundreds of thousands of unskilled and semi-skilled Syrians during the 1990s? A dominant theme in Lebanese public discourse accredits the Syrian state with enormous power in imposing a “flood” of Syrian migrants on Lebanon under the pax Syriana of the 1990s. This idea, most strident in the camp opposed to the Syrian “occupation” of 1976-2005, was always countered, however, by a less popular “pro-Syrian” position arguing that economics and the division of labour accounted for the presence of Syrian workers in Lebanon, and that the Syrian state had very little to do with the matter. Ostensibly, the fact that the migration continued even after the collapse of direct Syrian political control in Lebanon in April 2005 vindicates the latter position explaining the migration in economic terms. However, this article argues that to accept some version of the latter position would be to accept uncritically the terms in which the debate is cast, efface the very real importance of state power, and assume far too much about the coherence and meaning of “the economy” as an explanatory cate
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Wikileaks Shocker: Lebanese Defense Minister Reveals Plan to Stay out of Israel’s Way in Next War
Defense Minister Elias al-Murr (R) with Lebanese President Michel Sleiman.
If you haven’t yet seen them, be sure to check out the latest Wikileaks cables released to al-Akhbar, at least one of which is tremendously damning and could have major implications for the Lebanese political scene. (See here for the Lebanon-specific ones).
In the cable mentioned, the Lebanese Minister of Defense Elias al-Murr discusses with U.S. Embassy officials his preparations for an impending war with Israel, which involved sequestering the Lebanese Army in its bases until Hizbullah is destroyed. You should read the entire cable, but I’ll post the juiciest bits below.
What makes this leak especially damning is the fact that al-Murr specifically mentions his meeting with General Michel Sleiman (who, in March 2008, was still the commander of the Lebanese Army, and not yet the President of Lebanon) and talks about sharing his plans with him. Today, al-Murr is considered to be one of the President’s key ministers, so it’s quite possible that the toxic nature of this scandal will spread beyond the Ministry of Defense all the way to the Presidential Palace.