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Labwani, Kamal, 178
Lahoud, Émile, 81–83, 87, 199–200
Landis, Joshua, 111, 204
Lantos, Tom, 49–50, 174–75
Law 49 of 1980, 90, 93, 129
Lebanese Civil War, 8, 12, 14, 80
Lebanese National Reconciliation Accord, 8, 14. See also Ta’if Accord
Lebanon, xviii–xix, 8, 10, 13, 14, 27, 38–40, 50, 111–14, 129–30, 143,204–6
and Iran, 205–6
and Israel, 119, 147–58, 160, 162,167–69, 182–84, 190, 193, 204,209, 221, 231
and Syria, 12, 14, 30, 54, 79–85, 103,106, 109–10, 127, 143, 146, 154,175, 183–84, 186, 189, 199, 209,211, 217–19, 229–31, 234, 238, 241
and the United States, 22, 161, 200,213, 222, 232
Lewinsky, Monica, 35
Libya, 230
Likud Party, 15–16, 221
“Lion of Damascus.” See Assad, Bashar al-Livni, Tzipi, 221
Los Angeles Times, 96, 98
Macleod, Hugh, 89, 94–96, 98, 111, 113,138–39
Madrid peace conference, 161, 207
Mahmoud, Ali Habib, 235
Majlis al-Aala (consultative council), 133
Makhlouf, Rami, 85, 87, 117, 154, 180, 200–201, 226, 236, 240
Maliki, Nouri al-, 164, 212, 226
Malki, Adnan, 86–87
Malley, Robert, 210
Mamlouk, Ali, 235
Maronite-Christian Lebanese Broadcasting Company (LBC), 80
Marxism, 89. See also communism
Masharqa, Muhammad Zuheir, 107
Mayhoub, Nizar, 154
Mazidih, Badran Turki Hishan al-, 216
Mehlis, Detlev, 109, 111, 113–14, 117, 178,180
Mekdad, Faisal, 200, 226, 233
Meshaal, Khaled, 119, 212
Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI),143, 181
Middle East Times, 15
Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Syria), 39, 41,101, 190
Ministry of Information (Syria), 7, 26–27,31, 38, 59–60, 74, 89, 94–95, 101, 105,109, 154, 168, 193
Mitchell, George, 221, 223, 227
Moallem, Walid al-, 155–56, 177, 190,222
Modernizing and Activating Women’s
Role in Economic Development
(MAWRED), 45, 49, 52–58, 60, 63–69,181, 201
Monaghan, Alf, 17–20
Moratinos, Miguel Ángel, 156
Mottaki, Manouchehr, 119, 198–99
Moubayed, Sami, 110, 142, 167, 210–13, 217, 219, 224
Moustapha, Imad, 25, 167, 174, 202, 204, 217, 221
Mubarak, Hosni, 137, 208, 232–33
Mughniyeh, Imad, xx, 13, 197–200
mukhabarat, 59, 65, 67, 109, 123, 132
Munazama Jund al-Sham l’wahda wa
jihad (the Soldiers of Damascus
Organization for Unity and Jihad),130, 135
Muslim Brotherhood, 7–8, 18–19, 25, 42,49, 89–91, 93, 109, 113, 124, 129–30,133–36, 142–44, 152, 204, 231, 234
Mustaqbal, Al- (Future), television, 80,86, 205
Najib, Atif, 235
Najjar, Mostafa Mohammad, 120
Nashar, Samir, 90–91, 109, 140–41,143–44
Nasrallah, Hassan, 119–20, 149–50, 153,
168, 212, 219, 228, 241
Nasser, Gamal Abder, 150, 160
National Democratic Institute (NDI), 181
National Democratic Rally, 91, 144
National Prayer Breakfast, 132
National Progressive Front (NPF), 98, 125
National Salvation Front, 144
National Union of Syrian Students
(NUSS), 134
Netanyahu, Benjamin, 15, 221
Netherlands, the, 240
New Yorker, The, 157, 223
New York Times, 99, 104, 109, 155, 175, 184, 236
1956 Suez Crisis, 150
nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), xviii, 32, 37–38, 45, 47, 50–58, 61, 67–68, 70–71, 88, 114, 181
North Korea, 192, 201–2, 238
Norwegian embassy burning, 127
Nour, Ayman Abdel, 26
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, 237
Obama, Barack Hussein, administration of, xxi, 173, 217–18, 220, 227–29, 232,235, 238–42
old guard, the, 4, 49, 66–67, 69, 92, 107–8,234, 237
Olmert, Ehud, 147, 149, 175–76, 191,207–8, 222
Operation Desert Fox, 16
Operation Orchard, 192
opposition politics, xx, 89–93, 98, 108–9,113, 118–19, 134, 138, 140–46, 152,155, 181, 201, 204, 209, 231
Orient Center for International Studies,203
Otari, Muhammad Naji al-, 188
Ottoman caliphate, 171
Oxford Business Group (OBG), 3, 9,17, 20, 26–27, 29, 31–32, 34, 37–40,44–45, 52–53
Pahlavi, Shah Mohammad Reza, 169
Palestine Branch of Military Intelligence, 198, 203–4
Palestine; Palestinians, 5, 15, 22, 43, 48, 54, 62, 82–83, 129, 131, 136, 141, 146, 149, 190, 198, 217–18, 221
Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), 13, 21
Party of God, 232
Pelosi, Nancy, 174–77
Peres, Shimon, 221
Petraeus, General David, 194
Petrofac Oil Company, 26
Popular Front for the Liberation